De rechten van inheemse volken en marrons in Suriname is een uniek boek waarin de rechten en de positie van inheemse volken en marrons in Suriname systematisch in kaart worden gebracht en geanalyseerd. De auteurs tonen dat bestaande en veel geciteerde opvattingen dat inheemsen e…
"This book is an ethnographic account of colonialism in the Andaman Islands, Bay of Bengal, India. It examines the links between colonialism and development under British and Indian administrations, and analyses how the different indigenous groups (the Andamanese, the Onge, the …
From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European colonialism; the way in which scientific research has been implicated in the worst excesses of imperialism remains a powerful remembered history for many of the world's colonized pe…
This book describes the events, personalities, and conflicts that brought the Maritimes to the brink of a major confrontation between Mi'kmaq and the non-Mi'kmaq fishers in the fall of 1999, and the author explains the cross-cultural, legal, and political implications of the rec…
The author examines the prevailing orthodoxy that has determined public policy towards Canada's Aboriginal peoples. Flanagan demonstrates that the policy this orthodoxy produces, enriches a small elite of activists, politicians administrators, and well-connected entrepreneurs, w…
"As Long As This Land Shall Last is a thorough and accurate historical documentation of Treaties 8 (1899-1900) and 11 (1921) between the Canadian government and the First Nations people from northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories. These treaties promised they could live …
Indigenous peoples, legal and other professionals have actively engaged a number of international and national legal mechanisms to achieve degees of self governance in Canada, the United States, Greenland, Denmark, Norway, New Zealand and Australia. This title presents these pre…
Indigenous Australians share with the Indigenous peoples of the world, a commitment to govern their lands. Increasingly, international law standards are providing for the right of Indigenous participation in decisions affecting natural resources and land use. This book examines …
A comparative approach to the Indigeneity and the experience of colonisation. From Australia to the Solomons, to the USA to Canada, the experience of colonisation in those colonies involved either the introduction of a common law system or an introduced civil law system.
A comparative approach to the Indigeneity and the experience of colonisation. From Australia to the Solomons, to the USA to Canada, the experience of colonisation in those colonies involved either the introduction of a common law system or an introduced civil law system.
