Petitioning for Land: The Petitions of First Peoples of Modern British Colonies

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Legal history

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Bloomsbury publishing (uk)

Petitioning for Land: The Petitions of First Peoples of Modern British Colonies : Bloomsbury Academic : 9781350010680 : 1350010685 : 15 Nov 2018 : Petitioning for Land is the first book to examine the extent of First Peoples political participation through the use of petitions. Interpreting petitions as a continuous form of political articulation, Karen O'Brien considers petitioning for recognition of prior land ownership as a means by which to locate First Peoples petitioning for change within the broader narrative of historical and contemporary notions of justice. The book follows the story of First Peoples' activism and shows how they actively reform discourse to disseminate a self-determined reality through the act of petitioning. It discloses how, through the petition, First Peoples reject colonialism, even whilst working within its confines. In a reconfiguration of discourse, they actively convey a political or moral meaning to re-emerge in a self-determined world. Taking a so

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