书目名称 | West Papuan Decolonisation |
副标题 | Contesting Histories |
编辑 | Eileen Hanrahan |
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概述 | Provides a legal, historical and political context to West Papuan political claims in the early 2000s.Includes an innovative paradigm combining Settler Colonial Studies and Critical Indigenous Theory. |
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描述 | .In alignment with Indigenous Politics, an emerging sub-field of Politics and IR, this book considers West Papuan Indigenous nationhood. Combining Settler Colonial Studies and Critical Indigenous Theory, the research opens up sovereignty as a political category of analysis to reveal an embedded nation within Indonesia..In June 2000 the Second Papuan People’s Congress in Jayapura rejected the basis on which West Papua had been incorporated into Indonesia and resolved that the “people of Papua have been sovereign as a nation and a state since 1 December 1962”. Indonesian president Wahid firmly opposed this resolution and state officials posted historical narratives on the Australian Embassy website that legitimated Indonesia’s incorporation of the once non-self-governing territory..A mapping and analysis of these narratives demonstrate a settler colonial present within Southeast Asia. It is argued that the US’s appeasement of Indonesia’s takeover in the 1960s was based on the Great Power’s concern to promote its strategic and economic status in the region..“This is a timely intervention that contributes to a growing debate on settler colonialism as a mode of domination that characte |
出版日期 | Book 2021 |
关键词 | West Papuan survivance narrative; self-determination processes; International Law historical narrative |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4302-3 |
isbn_ebook | 978-981-33-4302-3 |
copyright | The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021 |