The Land of Nations: Indigenous Struggles for Property and Territory in International Law
Key studies have highlighted how Western law was central to the civilizing mission of colonialism, legitimizing conquest while presenting itself as a colonizer's gift for overcoming barbarism. But law was not just an imposition to dispossess resources and accumulate labor; it was also transform...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/aju.2021.10 2024-06-09T07:45:59+00:00 The Land of Nations: Indigenous Struggles for Property and Territory in International Law Merino, Roger 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aju.2021.10 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S2398772321000106 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ AJIL Unbound volume 115, page 129-134 ISSN 2398-7723 journal-article 2021 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2021.10 2024-05-15T13:01:42Z Key studies have highlighted how Western law was central to the civilizing mission of colonialism, legitimizing conquest while presenting itself as a colonizer's gift for overcoming barbarism. But law was not just an imposition to dispossess resources and accumulate labor; it was also transformed by the contestations of First Nations and the new practices deployed in settler societies. In this context, the first international legal theories were aimed at subordinating third world societies and, at the same time, provided the foundations of Western legal apparatus, shaping racially the modern concepts of sovereignty, territory, and property. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Cambridge University Press AJIL Unbound 115 129 134 |
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Key studies have highlighted how Western law was central to the civilizing mission of colonialism, legitimizing conquest while presenting itself as a colonizer's gift for overcoming barbarism. But law was not just an imposition to dispossess resources and accumulate labor; it was also transformed by the contestations of First Nations and the new practices deployed in settler societies. In this context, the first international legal theories were aimed at subordinating third world societies and, at the same time, provided the foundations of Western legal apparatus, shaping racially the modern concepts of sovereignty, territory, and property. |
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The Land of Nations: Indigenous Struggles for Property and Territory in International Law |
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The Land of Nations: Indigenous Struggles for Property and Territory in International Law |
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The Land of Nations: Indigenous Struggles for Property and Territory in International Law |
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