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    Canadian law and indigenous self-determination : a naturalist analysis / Gordon Christie.

    • Title:Canadian law and indigenous self-determination : a naturalist analysis / Gordon Christie.
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    • Author/Creator:Christie, Gordon (LL. B.), author.
    • Published/Created:Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Indians of North America--Civil rights--Canada.
      Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.--Canada.
      Sociological jurisprudence--Canada.
      Indigenous peoples--Civil rights--Canada.
      Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.--Canada.
    • Description:vi, 440 pages ; 23 cm
    • Summary:"For centuries, Canadian sovereignty has existed uneasily alongside forms of Indigenous legal and political authority. Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination demonstrates how, over the last few decades, Canadian law has attempted to remove Indigenous sovereignty from the Canadian legal and social landscape. Adopting a naturalist analysis, Gordon Christie responds to questions about how to theorize this legal phenomenon, and how the study of law should accommodate the presence of diverse perspectives. Exploring the socially-constructed nature of Canadian law, Christie reveals how legal meaning, understood to be the outcome of a specific society, is being reworked to devalue the capacities of Indigenous societies. Addressing liberal positivism and critical postcolonial theory, Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination considers the way in which Canadian jurists, working within a world circumscribed by liberal thought, have deployed the law in such a way as to attempt to remove Indigenous meaning-generating capacity."-- Provided by publisher.
    • Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-429) and index.
    • ISBN:9781442628991 (paper)
      1442628995
      9781442637511 (cloth)
      144263751X
    • Contents:Setting the stage
      Canadian law and its puzzles
      Differing understandings and the way forward
      Remarks on theorizing and method
      Problems with theorizing about the law
      Liberal positivism and aboriginal rights
      Characterizing and defining 'existing' aboriginal rights
      The place of aboriginal rights in Canada
      postcolonial theory and aboriginal law.
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