The Denial of Indigenous Voice and Self-determination in Political Thought

dc.contributor.authorMacDonald, Lindsey Te Ata o tu
dc.date.accessioned2010-12-02T00:06:04Z
dc.date.available2010-12-02T00:06:04Z
dc.date.issued2010en
dc.description.abstractBernard Williams has noted the tendency of certain types of political thought to inform past societies about their moral failings. This is certainly true of the history and political thought focussed on indigenous peoples, whether written by indigenous or non-indigenous scholars. In such writing, contemporary conceptions of justice are used to find the actions of past colonial governments immoral thus justifying the scholars conclusions as to the moral rights of rectification. Avoiding the obvious and much traversed methodological problems in the production of such histories, I focus instead on the denial of indigenous voice and self-determination that is enabled by such moralism. I do so by noting the exclusion of indigenous peoples from the basic political demands that we all have, and could expect from any political authority, indigenous or non- indigenous: in particular the enforcing of property rules, but also stability, order, the conditions of co-operation etc. I suggest that by thinking through how best to theorise an answer to those demands by indigenous peoples, political theory (and in turn, politics itself) would turn to the actual political demands of indigenous peoples, and not the moralising imaginations of scholars.en
dc.identifier.citationMacDonald, Lindsey Te Ata o tu (2010) The Denial of Indigenous Voice and Self-determination in Political Thought. Hamilton, New Zealand: New Zealand Political Science Association 2010 Annual Conference, 3 Dec 2010.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/4982
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. School of Social and Political Sciencesen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. Political Scienceen
dc.rights.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::16 - Studies in Human Society::1606 - Political Science::160609 - Political Theory and Political Philosophyen
dc.titleThe Denial of Indigenous Voice and Self-determination in Political Thoughten
dc.typeConference Contributions Published
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