Remote freedoms : politics, personhood and human rights in Aboriginal central Australia / Sarah E. Holcombe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holcombe, Sarah E. (Sarah Elizabeth), 1967- author.

Series:

Stanford studies in human rights.

Stanford studies in human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Civil rights.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Politics and government.

Indigenous peoples--Civil rights--Australia.

Indigenous peoples.

Human rights--Australia.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

What does it mean to be a'rights-holder'and how does it come about? Remote Freedoms explores the contradictions and tensions of localized human rights work in very remote Indigenous communities. Based on field research with Anangu of Central Australia, this book investigates how universal human rights are understood, practiced, negotiated, and challenged in concert and in conflict with Indigenous rights. Moving between communities, government, regional NGOs, and international UN forums, Sarah E. Holcombe addresses how the notion of rights plays out within the distinctive and ambivalent sociopolitical context of Australia, and focusing specifically on Indigenous women and their experiences of violence. Can the secular modern rights-bearer accommodate the ideals of the relational, spiritual Anangu person? Engaging in a translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into the local Pintupi-Luritja vernacular and observing various Indigenous interactions with law enforcement and domestic violence outreach programs, Holcombe offers new insights into our understanding of how the global rights discourse is circulated and understood within Indigenous cultures. She reveals how, in the postcolonial Australian context, human rights are double-edged: they enforce assimilation to a neoliberal social order at the same time that they empower and enfranchise the Indigenous citizen as a political actor. Remote Freedoms writes Australia's Indigenous peoples into the international debate on localizing rights in multicultural terms.

Contents:

Introduction : indigenous rights as human rights in central Australia

The act of translation : emancipatory potential and apocryphal revelations

Engendering social and cultural rights

"Stop whinging and get on with it" : the shifting contours of gender equality (and equity)

"Women go to the clinic and men go to jail" : the gendered indigenised subject of legal rights

Therapy culture and the intentional subject

Civil and political rights : is there space for an Aboriginal politics?

International human rights forums and (east coast) indigenous activism.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781503606487

1503606481

OCLC:

1198930709