Description
Book SynopsisConsiders the contributions of philosophical theories of property rights, political obligation, and self-determination to our moral understanding of political control over geographical space. Focuses on American Indian and other indigenous claims to a separate political status, including potentially to full legal independence.
Trade Review“This is an important and original book, not only for those people interested in indigenous claims, but for all political theorists interested in the difficult questions of political legitimacy and the relationship of political authority to land and people.”
—Margaret Moore,Queens University
“This book is an original reframing of questions of title, conquest, and authority that will interest readers in indigenous studies. It is also a careful, critical reading of contemporary theories of property, natural rights, the state, and consultative democracy—of significant interest to political theorists.”
—R. A. Cramer Choice
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
1. Thinking About Authority
2. International Law
3. The Limits of Ownership
4. Ownership and Social Contract
5. Duties to Aid
6. Authority Without Consent
7. Deliberation and Self-Determination
8. Culture and Moral Disagreement
9. Ending Colonialism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
