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Title: PG WIP Seminar: Kyla Reid
Time: Mon Sep 14 3:30pm – 5pm (Timezone: Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney)
Where: Philosophy Common Room
Calendar: Postgraduate Events
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Description: Philosophy Postgrad Work-In-Progress Seminar
Kyla Reid, "Why Indigenous Peoples cannot be Self-Determining"
"Self-determination is one of the most common terms used to reflect the
goals of (the) indigenous governance movement(s). The term
‘self-determination’ has become more popular as indigenous peoples have
turned to the international community to institute and implement rights on
their behalf. However, the definition of self-determination in
international law, and in application to the claims of indigenous peoples
in particular, remains obfuscated. As Hurst Hannum has pointed out,
“perhaps no contemporary norm of international law has been so vigorously
promoted or widely accepted as the right of all peoples to
self-determination. Yet the meaning and content of that right remain as
vague and imprecise as when they were enunciated by President Woodrow
Wilson and others at Versailles.”[1] Through a genealogy of the concept of
self-determination, I will argue that while the discourse of
self-determination has undergone several conceptual shifts, the concept has
always been rooted in a concept of justice and international order that
views the state as the crucial unit of political action. For this reason,
much of the confusion around what self-determination means in international
law comes from the many attempts to rework a fundamentally statist concept
in order to articulate the demands of non-state actors. While the meaning
of self-determination within international law and the domestic politics of
Canada and Australia is somewhat clarified through an understanding of its
connection to the state, the appropriateness of self-determination for
articulating the claims of indigenous peoples is brought into question."
Everyone (including non-postgrads) is welcome to attend.
If you would like to present or require further information, please contact
Nick Malpas at [email protected]. The format is 30 minutes for
presentations followed by 1 hour of discussion. Since the primary aim of
this seminar is to generate discussion, presentations need not be
particularly polished or formal.
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