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    Necessary fictions: indigenous claims and the humanity of rights

    Fitzpatrick, Peter (2010) Necessary fictions: indigenous claims and the humanity of rights. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46 (5), pp. 446-456. ISSN 1744-9855.

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    Abstract

    Indigenous right insistently challenges the surpassing arrogations of sovereign right. In so doing, it affirms dimensions of being-together denied or stunted in sovereign modes of political formation. This force of Indigenous right is amplified here through legal and literary instantiations. These, in turn, uncover the continuously created and fictional quality of rights, revealing them to be necessary fictions.

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    Item Type: Article
    Additional Information: Without abstract
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Indigenous rights, indigenous literatures, law, Mandela, fictions
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 14 Mar 2011 15:19
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:54
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/3195

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