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Indigenous Aspirations and Structural Reform in Australia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781509944040)
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xCan the Australian state be restructured to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and ensure that their distinct voices are heard in the processes of government? This book provides an answer to that question for Australia and provides guidance for all states that claim jurisdiction and authority over the traditional lands of Indigenous peoples.
By engaging directly with Indigenous peoples' nuanced and complex aspirations, this book presents a viable model for structural reform. It does so by adopting a distinctive and innovative approach: drawing on Indigenous scholarship globally it presents a coherent and compelling account of Indigenous peoples' political aspirations through the concept of sovereignty.
It then articulates those themes into a set of criteria legible to Australia's system of governance. This original perspective produces a culturally informed metric to assess institutional mechanisms and processes designed to empower Indigenous peoples.
Reflecting the Uluru Statement from the Heart's call for a First Nations Voice, the book applies the criteria to one specific institutional mechanism - Indigenous representative bodies. It analyses in detail the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and the Swedish S疥i Parliament, a representative body for the Indigenous people of Sweden. In examining the S疥i Parliament the book draws on a rich source of primary and secondary untranslated Swedish-language sources, resulting in the most comprehensive English language exploration of this unique institution.
Highlighting the opportunities and challenges of Indigenous representative bodies, the book concludes by presenting a novel and informed model for structural reform in Australia that meets Indigenous aspirations.
Author: Harry Hobbs
ISBN-10: 1509944044
ISBN-13: 9781509944040
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2022
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.62d
By engaging directly with Indigenous peoples' nuanced and complex aspirations, this book presents a viable model for structural reform. It does so by adopting a distinctive and innovative approach: drawing on Indigenous scholarship globally it presents a coherent and compelling account of Indigenous peoples' political aspirations through the concept of sovereignty.
It then articulates those themes into a set of criteria legible to Australia's system of governance. This original perspective produces a culturally informed metric to assess institutional mechanisms and processes designed to empower Indigenous peoples.
Reflecting the Uluru Statement from the Heart's call for a First Nations Voice, the book applies the criteria to one specific institutional mechanism - Indigenous representative bodies. It analyses in detail the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and the Swedish S疥i Parliament, a representative body for the Indigenous people of Sweden. In examining the S疥i Parliament the book draws on a rich source of primary and secondary untranslated Swedish-language sources, resulting in the most comprehensive English language exploration of this unique institution.
Highlighting the opportunities and challenges of Indigenous representative bodies, the book concludes by presenting a novel and informed model for structural reform in Australia that meets Indigenous aspirations.
Author: Harry Hobbs
ISBN-10: 1509944044
ISBN-13: 9781509944040
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2022
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.62d
By Harry Hobbs
xHarry Hobbs is Lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney.
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