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• Title:Constitutional recognition : first peoples and the Australian settler state / Dylan Lino ; foreword Professor Megan Davis.
  
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• Author/Creator:Lino, Dylan, author.
  
• Published/Created:Annandale, NSW : The Federation Press, 2018.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KU2107.M56 L56 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Aboriginal Australians--Legal status, laws, etc.
  Constitutional history--Australia.
  Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.--Australia.
  
• Description:xvi, 319 pages ; 21 cm
  
• Summary:This book provides the first comprehensive study of Indigenous constitutional recognition in Australia. It puts the idea of constitutional recognition into broader historical and theoretical perspective. After telling a wide-ranging history of Australian debates on Indigenous recognition, the book develops a theoretical account that sees constitutional recognition in terms of Indigenous peoples' struggles to have their identities respected within the settler constitutional order. When studied through Indigenous peoples' historical and contemporary struggles for recognition as citizens and peoples, constitutional recognition emerges not as a postcolonial endpoint but as an ongoing process of renegotiating the basic Indigenous - settler political relationship. With first peoples continuing to press for the recognition of their sovereignty and peoplehood, the future of their relationship with the Australian state is best captured in the ideal of federalism.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781760021818 paperback
  1760021814 paperback
  
• Contents:Foreword / Megan Davis
  Introduction
  The constitutional politics of indigenous recognition in Australia, 1979-2018
  Conceptualising constitutional recognition
  Constitutionalising indigenous recognition
  The incompleteness of indigenous constitutional recognition : learning from 1967
  Indigenous constitutional recognition and racial discrimination : learning from 1975
  Constitutionally recognising indigenous peoplehood : towards indigenous-settler federalism
  Conclusion.