(Source: Federation Press)
The Federation Press has published a book
on indigenous constitutional recognition in Australia.
ABOUT
THE BOOK
When Australians today debate how to
achieve a just postcolonial relationship with the First Peoples of the
continent, they typically do so using the language of ‘constitutional
recognition’. The idea of constitutional recognition has become the subject of
community forums and nationwide inquiries, street protests and prime
ministerial speeches. Dylan Lino’s book provides the first comprehensive study
of Indigenous constitutional recognition in Australia.
Offering more than a legal analysis, Lino
places the idea of constitutional recognition into a broader historical and
theoretical perspective. After recounting the history of Australian debates on
Indigenous recognition, the book presents an account that views constitutional
recognition in terms of Indigenous peoples’ struggles to have their identities
respected within the settler constitutional order. When studied in this way,
constitutional recognition emerges not as a postcolonial endpoint but as an
ongoing process of renegotiating the basic Indigenous–settler political
relationship.
With First Peoples continuing to press for
the recognition of their sovereignty and peoplehood, this book will be a
definitive reference point for scholars, advocates, policy-makers and the
interested
public.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Dylan Lino is a
Lecturer at the University of Western Australia Law School. His research
focuses on the rights of Indigenous peoples, constitutional law and theory, and
legal history. He holds degrees in Arts and Law (with Honours) from the
University of New South Wales, a Master of Laws from Harvard University and a
PhD from Melbourne Law School. In 2017, Dylan worked as a legal adviser to the
Commonwealth Government’s Referendum Council, whose work led to the Uluru
Statement from the Heart.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Professor Megan Davis, Pro
Vice-Chancellor Indigenous, UNSW
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. The Constitutional Politics of
Indigenous Recognition in Australia, 1979–2018
3. Conceptualising Constitutional
Recognition
4. Constitutionalising Indigenous
Recognition
5. The Incompleteness of Indigenous
Constitutional Recognition: Learning from 1967
6. Indigenous Constitutional
Recognition and Racial Discrimination: Learning from 1975
7. Constitutionally Recognising
Indigenous Peoplehood: Towards Indigenous–Settler Federalism
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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