Canadian Law and Indigenous Self‐Determination
A Naturalist Analysis
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2019
- Category
- Indigenous Peoples, Political, Native American Studies
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781442637511
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $125.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781442628991
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $57.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442625518
- Publish Date
- Aug 2019
- List Price
- $57.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442625501
- Publish Date
- Aug 2019
- List Price
- $54.00
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Description
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.
About the author
Gordon Christie is Professor in the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia.