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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Gover, Kirsty. Tribal constitutionalism. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010 (OCoLC)649801119 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kirsty Gover |
ISBN: | 9780191595363 0191595365 |
OCLC Number: | 700952565 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 276 pages) |
Contents: | Tribal membership governance and the cultural production of indigeneity: reflecting inter-indigenous recognition in public policy -- Tribalism constitutionalized: the tribal governance of membership in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States -- Descent and genealogy: the changing landscape of tribal membership governance in the United States -- Tribal constitutionalism and historic claims: the impact of claims settlement on tribal membership governance in Australia and New Zealand. |
Responsibility: | Kirsty Gover. |
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An important book: this is the leading scholarly account of key issues of membership and governance facing - and rocking - tribal nations in their modern rebirth as significant economic political forces. * P.G. McHugh, Sidney Sussex College and Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge * The great virtue of this book is the way it tackles the difficult question of indigenous identity and membership in all of its complexity through a rich comparative approach. By paying attention to the changing empirical and institutional structures on the ground and the practical struggles of different indigenous political communities in four different countries, Gover is able to weave a subtle and persuasive normative argument about how best to frame ongoingdebates over indigenous membership. We need to break out of the standard ways of thinking about these issues and Gover's book is a major contribution to our doing so * Duncan Ivison, Professor of Political Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney * To render something visible by naming it and to theorize what is already practical, are the achievements of Gover's brilliant study. * Tim Rowse, Journal of Law and Society * Read more...

