Between Consenting Peoples
Political Community and the Meaning of Consent
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2010
- Subjects
- Indigenous Peoples, Native American Studies, Human Rights, Treaties
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774818858
- Publish Date
- Oct 2010
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
Consent has long been used to establish the legitimacy of society. But when one asks – who consented? how? to what type of community? – consent becomes very elusive, more myth than reality. In Between Consenting Peoples, leading scholars in legal and political theory examine the different ways in which consent has been used to justify political communities and the authority of law, especially in indigenous-nonindigenous relations. They explore the kind of consent – the kind of attachment – that might ground political community and establish a fair relationship between indigenous and nonindigenous peoples.
About the authors
Contributor Notes
Jeremy Webber holds the Canada Research Chair in Law and Society at the University of Victoria and is a Trudeau Fellow. Colin M. Macleod is an associate professor of law and philosophy at the University of Victoria.
Contributors: Andrée Boisselle, David Dyzenhaus, Duncan Ivison, Margaret Moore, Val Napoleon, Janna Promislow, Tim Rowse, James Tully