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Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law

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Raw Law

Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law

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Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law book

Raw Law
ByIrene Watson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 30 October 2014
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315858999
Pages 204
eBook ISBN 9781315858999
Subjects Humanities, Law
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Watson, I. (2014). Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law: Raw Law (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315858999

ABSTRACT

This work is the first to assess the legality and impact of colonisation from the viewpoint of Aboriginal law, rather than from that of the dominant Western legal tradition. It begins by outlining the Aboriginal legal system as it is embedded in Aboriginal people’s complex relationship with their ancestral lands. This is Raw Law: a natural system of obligations and benefits, flowing from an Aboriginal ontology. This book places Raw Law at the centre of an analysis of colonisation – thereby decentring the usual analytical tendency to privilege the dominant structures and concepts of Western law. From the perspective of Aboriginal law, colonisation was a violation of the code of political and social conduct embodied in Raw Law. Its effects were damaging. It forced Aboriginal peoples to violate their own principles of natural responsibility to self, community, country and future existence. But this book is not simply a work of mourning. Most profoundly, it is a celebration of the resilience of Aboriginal ways, and a call for these to be recognised as central in discussions of colonial and postcolonial legality.

Written by an experienced legal practitioner, scholar and political activist, AboriginalPeoples, Colonialism and International Law: Raw Law will be of interest to students and researchers of Indigenous Peoples Rights, International Law and Critical Legal Theory.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction 1

chapter 2|17 pages

Kaldowinyeri

chapter 3|26 pages

Raw Law, song, ceremony, ruwe

chapter 4|11 pages

Naked

The coming of the cloth

chapter 5|42 pages

Who’s your mob? How are you related?

chapter 6|36 pages

Dressed to kill

chapter 7|23 pages

Indigenous ways

A future
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