Canadian Law and Indigenous Self‐Determination: A Naturalist Analysis
Gordon Christie, "Canadian Law and Indigenous Self‐Determination: A Naturalist Analysis"
English | ISBN: 1442628995 | 2019 | 448 pages | EPUB | 1157 KB
English | ISBN: 1442628995 | 2019 | 448 pages | EPUB | 1157 KB
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.
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