ABSTRACT
The term indigeneity attained new political significance with the 2007 United Nations (UN) Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It aims to support the rights of indigenous peoples around the world and sets international standards for domestic political institutions. In this chapter, the author examines images of international indigeneity created by the Australian artist Michael Cook (born 1968). Art plays a significant role in the history of Australian indigenous people and their struggle for political recognition and rights. In his 2014 series of photographic artworks titled Majority Rule, Cook conveys a sense of the strategic ambiguity inherent in the concept of international indigeneity. Minority politics sits at the heart of Michael Cook's art. Majority Rule offers insight about the nature of minority collectivity that extends to considerations of how international indigeneity relates to global politics.
