ABORIGINAL SOCIETIES COMMON LAW C

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-825248-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)

Buch, Englisch, 680 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1165 g

This book describes the encounter between the common law legal system and the tribal peoples of North America and Australasia. It is a history of the role of anglophone law in managing relations between the British settlers and indigenous peoples. That history runs from the plantation of Ireland and settlement of the New World to the end of the Twentieth century.

The book begins by looking at the nature of British imperialism and the position of non-Christian peoples at large in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. It then focuses on North America and Australasia from their early national periods in the Nineteenth century to the modern era. The historical basis of relations is described through the key, enduring, but constantly shifting questions of sovereignty, status and, more latterly, self-determination. Throughout the history of engagement with common law legalism, questions surrounding the settler-state's recognition - or otherwise - of the integrity of the tribe have recurred. These issues were addressed in many and varied imperial and colonial contexts, but all jurisdictions have shared remarkable historical parallels which have been accentuated by their common legal heritage. The same questioning continues today in the renewed and controversial claims of the tribal societies to a distinct constitutional position and associated rights of self-determination. Mc Hugh examines the political resurgence of aboriginal peoples in the last quarter of the Twentieth century. A period of 'rights-recognition' was transformed into a second-generation jurisprudence of rights-management and rights-integration. From the 1990s onwards, aboriginal affairs have been driven by an increasingly rampant legalism.

Throughout this history, the common law's encounter with tribal peoples not only describes its view of the aboriginal, but also reveals a considerable amount about the common law itself as a language of thought. This is a history of the voyaging common law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mchugh

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Chapter One: Introduction

- Chapter Two: The juridical status of non-Christian polities (to the end of the eighteenth century)

- Chapter Three: Aboriginal sovereignty and status in the 'Empire(s) of Uniformity'

- Chapter Four: A history of aboriginal status - the legal recognition of the individual and the group

- Chapter 5: aboriginal societies and international law: a history of sovereignty, status and land

- Chapter 6: An overview of the era of aboriginal self-determination

- Chapter 7: Achieving recognition during the 1970s and '80s- foundations for a modern jurisprudence

- Chapter 8: Moving beyond recognition: aboriginal governance in the turbulent 1990s

- Chapter 9: Living Together Less Contentiously: the Jurisprucence of Reconciliation in the 1990s

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. P. G. McHugh is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge, Tutor of Sidney Sussex College, and Ashley McHugh Ngai Tahu Visiting Professor at Victoria University of Wellington.