Decolonizing law : Indigenous, third world and settler perspectives / edited by Sujith Xavier, Beverley Jacobs, Valarie Waboose, Jeffery G. Hewitt and Amar Bhatia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Xavier, Sujith, 1977- editor.

Jacobs, Beverley, editor, author.

Waboose, Valarie, editor, author.

Hewitt, Jeffery G., editor.

Bhatia, Amar, editor, author.

Taylor & Francis.

Series:

Indigenous peoples and the law (Routledge (Firm))

Indigenous peoples and the law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 312 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

"This book brings together Indigenous, Third World and Settler perspectives on the theory and practice of decolonizing law. Colonialism, imperialism, and settler colonialism continue to affect the lives of racialized communities and Indigenous Peoples around the world. Law, in its many iterations, has played an active role in the dispossession and disenfranchisement of colonized peoples. Law and its various institutions are the means by which colonial, imperial, and settler colonial programs and policies continue to be reinforced and sustained. There are, however, recent and historical examples in which law has played a significant role in dismantling colonial and imperial structures set up during the process of colonization. This book combines usually distinct Indigenous, Third World and Settler perspectives in order to take up the effort of decolonizing law: both in practice and in the concern to distance and to liberate the foundational theories of legal knowledge and academic engagement from the manifestations of colonialism, imperialism and settler colonialism. Including work by scholars from the Global South and North, this book will be of interest to academics, students and others interested in the legacy of colonial and settler law, and its overcoming"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: decolonizing law in the Global North and South: expanding the circle

Challenging limitations of settler colonialism

1 Decolonizing Anishinaabe nibi inaakonigewin and gikendaasowin research: reinscribing Anishinaabe approaches to law and knowledge

2 Statehood, Canadian sovereignty, and the attempted domestication of Indigenous legal relations

3 Decolonization in Third and Fourth Worlds: synergy, solidarity, and sustainability through international law

Perspectives from the Global North and South

Part 1 International

4 Mastery and gratitude: development aid and the colonial condition in Palestine

5 Rethinking international legal education in Latin America: exploring some obstacles of a hegemonic colonial academic model in Chile and Colombia

Part 2 Sites of engagement

6 Indigenous peoples and Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant: the mobilization of displaced Indigenous peoples in the urban area of Altamira

7 Unearthing (de)colonial legal relations: mining law in Aotearoa New Zealand

8 Comparative law and epistemologies of ignorance in Chilean constitutional adjudication: a case study

9 Not empty of laws: Indigenous legal orders and the Canadian state

10 The right to free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC): reflections on experiences of two Indigenous communities in northern regions of Canada and Chile

Decolonizing through Indigenous worldviews

11 Decolonizing corrections

12 (Re)bundling nêhiyaw âskiy: nêhiyaw constitutionalism through land stories

13 Conducting research from an Indigenous lens

Notes on contributors

Index.

Notes:

"A GlassHouse Book"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-316138-3

1-000-39655-X

1-003-16138-3

1-000-39651-7

9781003161387

OCLC:

1244624156