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      Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law
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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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