Remote freedoms : politics, personhood and human rights in Aboriginal central Australia / Sarah E. Holcombe.

What does it mean to be a 'rights-holder' and how does it come about? Remote Freedoms explores the contradictions and tensions of localized human rights work in very remote Indigenous communities. Based on field research with Anangu of Central Australia, this book investigates how universa...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Holcombe, Sarah E. (Sarah Elizabeth), 1967- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
©2018
Series:Stanford studies in human rights.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : indigenous rights as human rights in central Australia
  • The act of translation : emancipatory potential and apocryphal revelations
  • Engendering social and cultural rights
  • "Stop whinging and get on with it" : the shifting contours of gender equality (and equity)
  • "Women go to the clinic and men go to jail" : the gendered indigenized subject of legal rights
  • Therapy culture and the intentional subject
  • Civil and political rights : is there space for an Aboriginal politics?
  • International human rights forums and (east coast) indigenous activism.