European conquest and the rights of indigenous peoples : the moral backwardness of international society / Paul Keal. electronic resource

Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-250) and index.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Defining indigenous peoples -- Colonial settlement -- Historical continuity -- The search for self-determination -- Self-identification -- Scope of the examples -- The layout of the book -- 1 Bringing peoples' into international society -- International society and its expansion -- Building international society -- Conquest -- Imperialism -- Empire -- Colonialism and colonisation -- Internal colonialism -- The culture of colonialism -- The language of international law -- Peoples' and international society -- 2 Wild men' and other tales -- Conceptualising non-European others -- Todorov: the failure to know others -- Pagden: incommensurablity -- McGrane: changing constructions of the other' -- Political language: classifying others -- Wild men, barbarians and savages -- Stages of development: noble and ignoble savages -- The state of nature and natural rights -- 3 Dispossession and the purposes of international law -- International law and the rights of non-European peoples -- Writers who recognised sovereignty in non-European peoples -- Writers who recognised limited or conditional sovereignty' in non-European peoples -- Writers who denied sovereign rights to non-Europeans -- The eclipse of natural law -- 4 Recovering rights: land, self-determination and sovereignty -- The United Nations human rights regime -- Land and culture -- Self-determination -- Issues to be resolved -- Human rights and indigenous rights -- Peoples and populations -- The contemporary scope of self-determination -- A conflict between self-determination and sovereignty? -- Some indigenous perspectives -- 5 The political and moral legacy of conquest -- The ethics of constructing others -- Collective responsibility and historic injustices -- The moral legitimacy of states and international society -- 6 Dealing with difference -- International society and world order -- Omissions of classical theory -- The problem of cross-cultural understanding -- Political community and difference -- Multiculturalism within the state -- Multinational states -- The universal community of mankind -- Undoing the Westphalian state -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- Part I -- Article 1 -- Article 2 -- Article 3 -- Article 4 -- Article 5 -- Part II -- Article 6 -- Article 7 -- Article 8 -- Article 9 -- Article 10 -- Article 11 -- Part III -- Article 12 -- Article 13 -- Article 14 -- Part IV -- Article 15 -- Article 16 -- Article 17 -- Article 18 -- Part V -- Article 19 -- Article 20 -- Article 21 -- Article 22 -- Article 23 -- Article 24 -- Part VI -- Article 25 -- Article 26 -- Article 27 -- Article 28 -- Article 29 -- Article 30 -- Part VII -- Article 31 -- Article 32 -- Article 33 -- Article 34 -- Article 35 -- Articl.

Paul Keal argues for the recognition of indigenous peoples as 'peoples' with the right of self-determination in constitutional and international law. Questioning the moral legitimacy of international society, and examining notions of collective guilt and responsibility, Keal's accessible study provides an important insight into contemporary international society.

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