| Autor: |
Sharon Venne, Irene Watson |
| Přispěvatelé: |
Watson, Irene Margaret, Venne, Sharon |
| Rok vydání: |
2012 |
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| DOI: |
10.1017/cbo9781139136723.004 |
| Popis: |
Introduction The road behind is a space in which Aboriginal peoples know who we are; we know our countries, families and peoples. For many Aboriginal people the road back to country is long and filled with colonial encounters. Colonial encounters have caused and continue to cause conflict, and conflict interferes with our capacity to remain connected and to reconnect with country and family. Our Aboriginal selves in relationship to country can bring us home; the dispossessed Aboriginal self confronts a space in which the only direction free of blocks and obstacles is onward and ahead. The road behind becomes increasingly hard to access. Confronted with this, do we simply walk forward? If so, what might we be walking into? What of the road behind and the Aboriginal selves? This chapter examines the future directions which have been proposed in international law and the promises to remove the colonial roadblocks that separate many of us from our lands and reduce our capacity to govern our lives which they contain. We argue that the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (hereafter Declaration) falls short, that the talk and theorizing of indigenous rights is part of an illusion constructed while the colonial project continues to absorb indigenous peoples into itself, through the assimilation agendas of various states. This chapter investigates how far international efforts at recognition enable or otherwise the truth of decolonization and the cessation of ongoing genocides of Aboriginal peoples across the world |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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