Constitutional Recognition

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Federation Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2018
Edition: First Edition

Description: 319 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: When Australians today debate how to achieve a just postcolonial relationship with the First Peoples of the continent, they typically do so using the language of ‘constitutional recognition. The idea of constitutional recognition has become the subject of community forums and nationwide inquiries, street protests and prime ministerial speeches. The authors book provides the first comprehensive study of Indigenous constitutional recognition in Australia. Offering more than a legal analysis, the author places the idea of constitutional recognition into a broader historical and theoretical perspective. After recounting the history of Australian debates on Indigenous recognition, the book presents an account that views constitutional recognition in terms of Indigenous peoples struggles to have their identities respected within the settler constitutional order. When studied in this way, constitutional recognition emerges not as a postcolonial endpoint but as an ongoing process of renegotiating the basic Indigenoussettler political relationship. With First Peoples continuing to press for the recognition of their sovereignty and peoplehood, this book will be a definitive reference point for scholars, advocates, policy-makers and the interested public.

ISBN: 9781760021818