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Resistance and Insistence: Making Postcolonial Indigenous Rights
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Resistance and Insistence: Making Postcolonial Indigenous Rights

Miranda Johnson
The Cambridge History of Rights, Volume V: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, pp.394-420
Cambridge University Press
27/11/2025
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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/50051

Abstract

Indigenous rights Postcolonialism Assimilation Customary law Treaty rights Self-determination Land claims Activism United Nations Human rights
In 2007, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recognized their particular historical losses and protected their future as collective entities, including their distinctive claims to land. In a multi-sited genealogy, Miranda Johnson explores how long-term historical identities were reforged – in stages after World War II, and against the prevalence of assimilative ideologies – through the elaboration of common Indigenous claim-making of far-flung groups, coming to regard a parallel historic dispossession and current disempowerment.

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