Between Indigenous and Settler Governance

Lisa Ford is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of New South Wales; Tim Rowse is a professor at the University of Western Sydney

1. Locating Indigenous self-determination in the margins of settler sovereignty: an introduction, Lisa Ford 2. Vattel in revolutionary America: from the rules of war to the rule of law, Ian Hunter; 3. Settler sovereignty and the shapeshifting Crown, Paul McHugh and Lisa Ford; 4. ‘It would only be just’: a study of territoriality and trading posts along the Mackenzie River, 1800–1827, Janna Promislow; 5. Pan-nationalism as a crisis management strategy: John Ross and the Tahlequah conference of 1843, Tim Garrison; 6. Obstacles to ‘a proper exercise of jurisdiction’ – sorcery and criminal justice in the settler–Indigenous encounter in Australia, Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane; 7. Vanished theocracies: Christianity, war and politics in colonial New Zealand 1830–1880, Richard Boast; 8. When settlers went to war against Christianity, Norman Etherington 9. The identity of indigenous political thought, Tim Rowse; 10. Economy, change and self-determination: a Central Australian case, Diane Austin-Broos; 11. Land rights and development in Australia: caring for, benefiting from, governing the Indigenous estate, Jon Altman; 12. Indigenous land rights and self-government: inseparable entitlements, Kent McNeil; 13. Three Peversities in Indian Law, Jacob T. Levy; 14. Section 223 and the shape of Native Title: The limits of jurisdictional thinking, Shaunnagh Dorsett and Shaun McVeigh; 15. Whakaeke i ngā ngaru – riding the waves: Māori legal traditions in New Zealand public life, Carwyn Jones; 16. Indigenous jurisdiction as a provocation of settler state political theory: the significance of human boundaries, Kirsty Gover; 17. Bibliography