By: Alexandra Grey

Alexandra Grey — Wed, 12 May 2021 04:21:45 +0000

In reply to Robert Phillipson. Thank you, Robert (and Tove) for making these parts of your compilation available. Very useful!

By: Robert Phillipson

Robert Phillipson — Fri, 07 May 2021 05:49:43 +0000

This is important work. One of the goals of the four volumes on Language Rights that Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and I edited for Routledge in 2017 was to bring disciplines together that seldom are integrated. Unfortunately the books only exist in hardback, are outrageously priced, and were poorly marketed. Many of the texts, including out Introductions to each volume, and a General Introduction are available on Academia and ResearchGate, possibly more easily accessed via Tove’s website, http://www.tove-skutnabb-kangas.org. The final extract of the 98 (!) selected texts is of immediate relevance for you. This is the way we summarise it in the Introduction to Volume 4.
Kirsten Anker’s book. Declarations of interdependence. A legal pluralist approach to Indigenous rights, (4.28), deals with related issues to those emerging in Latin America. The interdependence referred to in the name of the book is the relationship between the legal positivism of Western judicial systems in their encounter with the cosmologies of Indigenous peoples. Fundamentally the book is an exploration of incompatible understandings of law, a Western tradition that seldom explores its limitations and origins, rooted in physical and symbolic violence, and its encounter with radically different understandings of territory, property, culture, and language. The book is an inter-disciplinary exploration of discursive incompatibilities in legal process and its application, and the tension between Western legal monism and the possibility of law that is sensitive to all aspects of Indigenous cultures. Anker’s project is to show that ‘law’s structure of fact and law, property and sovereignty, traditional and modern, Indigenous and Australian and Canadian, are made not of concrete but of the dynamic interplay of human discourse: symbolic and embodied exchanges on which we act, and acts which make our world meaningful’ (p. 5). We include the first 5 pages of chapter 1 (Introduction), which presents Anker’s project, and the final paragraph of the concluding chapter (7). These extracts sum up a subtle analysis of a core aspect of how legislation and court cases deal with existential issues in Europeanised states and the administration of social justice, including linguistic justice.
The book is published by Ashgate.

By: Alexandra Grey

Alexandra Grey — Fri, 07 May 2021 00:53:40 +0000

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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, opened for signature 16 December 1966, 999 UNTS 171 (entered into force 23 March 1976).

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