Aboriginal women, law and critical race theory : storytelling from the margins
- Full Title:
- Aboriginal women, law and critical race theory : storytelling from the margins
- Author:
- Watson, Nicole,
- Statement of Responsibility:
- Nicole Watson
- Series:
- Palgrave studies in race, ethnicity, indigeneity and criminal justice
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- xi, 102 p.
- Summary:
- This book explores storytelling as an innovative means of improving understanding of Indigenous people and their histories and struggles including with the law. It uses...
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Summary:
This book explores storytelling as an innovative means of improving understanding of Indigenous people and their histories and struggles including with the law. It uses the Critical Race Theory (‘CRT’) tool of ‘outsider’ or ‘counter’ storytelling to illuminate the practices that have been used by generations of Aboriginal women to create an outlaw culture and to resist their invisibility to law. Legal scholars are yet to use storytelling to bring the experiential knowledge of Aboriginal women to the centre of legal scholarship and yet this book demonstrates how this can be done by way of a new methodology that combines elements of CRT with speculative biography. In one chapter, the author tells the imagined story of Eliza Woree who featured prominently in the backdrop to the decision of the Supreme Court of Queensland in Dempsey v Rigg (1914) but whose voice was erased from the judgements. This accessible book adds a new and innovative dimension to the use of CRT to examine the nexus between race and settler colonialism. It speaks to those interested in Indigenous peoples and the law, Indigenous studies, Indigenous policy, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, feminist studies, race and the law, and cultural studies. Nicole Watson is an Aboriginal scholar from Queensland, who is descended from the Munanjali and Birri Gubba Peoples. She is a published novelist and a former columnist with the National Indigenous Times. Nicole is currently employed as the Director of the Academic Unit, Nura Gili Centre for Indigenous Programs, University of New South Wales. - Contents:
- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: CRT and Settler Colonial Societies -- Chapter Three: Aboriginal Women’s Outlaw Culture -- Chapter Four: The Story of Eliza...
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Contents:
Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: CRT and Settler Colonial Societies -- Chapter Three: Aboriginal Women’s Outlaw Culture -- Chapter Four: The Story of Eliza Woree -- Chapter Five: Conclusion. - Publisher & Date:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
- Date of Publication:
- 2022
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Classification:
- AU 58.2.6
AU 58.2.3
D 5.5 - ISBN:
- 9783030873264
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