| Popis: |
Since the late1990s,there has been renewed interest in the concept of citizenship as it applies to minorities,driven largely by the human rights revolution,the increased mobility of the age of globalization,and the consequent perceived weakening of the nation-state.This essay examines the historical and contemporary strategic use of citizenship-related concepts in the indigenous struggle for rights in Australia.It begins by reconstructing the history of Australian settlement from the perspective of indigenous struggles for rights,focusing especially on the ambiguity of the policy of assimilation,which functioned both as a means of justifying colonial appropriation of the Australian continent and as a means of providing indigenous peoples with a path to Australian citizenship.Examining claims to specific indigenous rights,it argues that indigenous citizenship rights,and particularly land rights,established after years of struggle,are now in the process of being eroded through government attempts to encourage more individualist approaches to citizenship. |
