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First World, First Nations
Internal Colonialism and Indigenous Self-Determination in Northern Europe and Australia
In the series:
First Nations and the Colonial Encounter
| Günter Minnerup
and Pia Solberg |
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Günter Minnerup
has been teaching, and
extensively publishing on, modern European history for over
thirty years. He was Director of the Centre for European Studies
at UNSW Sydney 2006–2007, in this capacity organiser
of the conference on which this book is based. He is involved
with Australian Indigenous issues in various ways, for example
through the History Council of NSW (member of judging panel
for Indigenous History Fellowship).
Pia Solberg is
currently writing her PhD thesis comparing indigenous development
in Australia and Norway.
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The Sami people of Northern Europe and Aboriginal Australians are
literally a world apart in geographical terms, yet share a common
fate as Indigenous minorities
emerging from centuries of internal colonisation. Their ancient
cultures and languages severely eroded by policies of forced assimilation,
their traditional lifestyles and
economies damaged, and their political voices marginalised, recent
decades have seen their struggles for collective survival rise to
political prominence in national and international agendas, with
the promise of Indigenous self-determination held out by national
governments and the United Nations Declaration of Rights for Indigenous
Peoples.
… Both the Sami and Indigenous Australians have won important
new rights during these decades, yet the outcomes are very different.
In this volume – the only collection of essays specifically
on the Indigenous peoples of Australia and Northern Europe –
the similarities and differences between the Indigenous experiences
in the Nordic countries and Australia are explored by renowned experts
in the field including Indigenous authors. Some of the contributions
are explicitly comparative and based on research experience in both
areas, and two essays on New Zealand and Canada provide external
points of reference to the volume’s focus on Northern Europe
(Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia) and Australia.
… As always in Indigenous Studies, issues of cultural identity
and survival are prominent but there is a special emphasis in many
of the chapters on issues of socio-economic development and political
representation, and a substantial introduction by the editors sketches
out a historical-theoretical framework for understanding Indigenous
struggles in First World countries that is critical of some currently
fashionable approaches.
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Series Editor’s Preface
Introduction (Günter Minnerup and Pia Solberg)
1
The Development of Sámi Rights in Norway from 1980
to 2007 (Carsten Smith)
2 The Norwegian Sámi Parliament and Sámi
political empowerment (Eva Josefsen)
3 Self-determination, rights and recognition:
Indigenous representative bodies in Northern Europe and Australia
(Jane Robbins)
4 Principles and practice in Finnish national
policies towards the Sámi people (Jukka Nyyssönen)
5 Russia’s Sámi: the search for autonomy
in the Kola Peninsula (Paul Fryer)
6 Internal Colonialism in Australia (Christine
Jennett)
7 Wiradjuri: Revival and Survival (Yalmambirra)
8 Poverty alleviation in remote Indigenous
Australia: The hybrid economy as an alternative to mainstreaming
(Jon Altman and Katherine May)
9 Recognition, Rights and Resources: Sámi
Lands and Indigenous Australian Lands. Some Comparative Perspectives
(Margaret Anne Stephenson)
10 Arctic to Outback: Indigenous rights,
conservation and tourism (Michael Adams)
11 Making places and polities: Indigenous
uses of cultural heritage legislation in Australia and Norway
(Gro Ween)
12 Learning the political power play of survival!
Sámi villagers fighting for the right to local settlement
(Marit Myrvoll)
13 Ethnic discrimination and bullying in
Norway (Ketil Lenert Hansen)
14 The Woggan-ma-gule Morning Ceremony. An
Indigenous Performance on Australia Day (Angel Bright)
15 Commemorating the Treaty of Waitangi (Patrick
McAllister)
The Contributors
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Minnerup and Pia Solberg serves as a stark reminder that First
Nations peoples are found on all continents. They contrast
the respective histories and past and present vicissitudes
of the Sámi – spread across Norway, Sweden, Finland
and Russia – with those of Indigenous Australians. If
in Scandanavia the Sámi suffer relative disadvantage
vis-à-vis non-Sámi areas, the contrasts between
Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians are ‘shocking’.
There is, moreover, a yawning disparity in living standards
between the Sámi and Indigenous Australians. The authors
offer a ‘historical and structural explanation of the
very different processes of colonization involved’ and
question how a model of internal colonialism might become
transformed into one of internal self-determination. This
latest volume in the series underscores that any process of
internal decolonization must be about more than survival:
rather, it has to do with stripping the relations between
the colonizer and colonized of their structural asymmetries
and inequalities.” From
the Preface by First Nations Series Editor, David Cahill,
University of New South Wales |
Publication Details
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Hardback ISBN: |
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978-1-84519-351-5 |
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256 pp. / 229 x 152 mm |
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Release Date: |
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November 2010 |
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Hardback Price: |
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£67.50 / $99.95 |
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