Michael Murphy | 2009 January

22 Jan Prisons of Culture: Judicial Constructions of Indigenous Rights in Australia Canada and New Zealand

Posted at 10:20h in Articles, Posts, Publications

The article examines the manner in which High Courts in Australia, Canada and New Zealand define indigenous rights in relation to the traditional laws, customs, and practices of pre-contact indigenous societies. One of the great disappointments of this interpretive framework has been its deployment as...

22 Jan Representing Indigenous Self-determination

Posted at 09:33h in Articles, Posts, Publications

Discussions of indigenous self-determination have traditionally shown little enthusiasm for the idea of indigenous engagement in electoral politics – and for good reasons. Self-determination is usually understood as a means of gaining distance from, rather than inclusion in, state institutions. Legislative bodies are regarded with...

18 Jan Quebec and Canada in the New Century: New Dynamics, New Opportunities Canada: The State of the Federation 2005

Posted at 09:33h in Edited Books, Posts, Publications

For three decades following the Quiet Revolution Quebec society was captivated by a discourse of sovereignty and Quebec nation-building that posed a fundamental challenge to the legitimacy and integrity of the Canadian federation. Since the 1995 referendum, however, the political intensity of the sovereignty discourse...

January 2009

22 Jan Prisons of Culture: Judicial Constructions of Indigenous Rights in Australia Canada and New Zealand

22 Jan Representing Indigenous Self-determination

18 Jan Quebec and Canada in the New Century: New Dynamics, New Opportunities Canada: The State of the Federation 2005