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Canadian law and indigenous self-determination : a naturalist analysis

Christie, Gordon (LL. B.), author

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\"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. Addressing liberal positivism and critical postcolonial theory, Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination considers the way in which Canadian jurists, working within a world circumscribed by liberal thought, have deployed the law in such a way as to attempt to remove Indigenous meaning-generating capacity.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Subject: Indians of North America Civil rights Canada. / Indians of North America Legal status, laws, etc. Canada. / Sociological jurisprudence Canada.
• ISBN: 9781442628991, 9781442637511

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
KE7722.C5 C47 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE