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Aboriginal/Indigenous Citizenship: An Introduction, Patricia K. Wood
Aboriginal/Indigenous Citizenship: An Introduction, Patricia K. Wood
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
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The Logic Of Aboriginal Rights, Duncan Ivison
The Logic Of Aboriginal Rights, Duncan Ivison
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
Are there any aboriginal rights? If there are, then what kind of rights are they? Are they human rights adapted and shaped to the circumstances of indigenous peoples? Or are they specific cultural rights, exclusive to members of aboriginal societies? In recent liberal political theory, aboriginal rights are often conceived of as cultural rights and thus as group rights. As a result, they are vulner- able to at least three kinds of objections: i) that culture is not a primary good relevant to the currency of egalitarian justice; ii) that group rights are inimical to the moral individualism of liberal …