ABSTRACT

Although IPMs are often represented as accepting the liberal “rules of the game” in white settler societies, this work has attempted to counter such a view by distinguishing the liberal legal tactics of indigenous land claims from the critical, strategic quality these claims exhibit in relation to liberal governmentality. In these concluding remarks such a writing of indigenous resistance will be read against liberal justifications of native title and self-government. Such a confrontation will help clarify the extent to which liberalism has the resources to respond affirmatively to the claims of indigenous peoples.