Sovereign Subjects

<p>Indigenous rights in Australia are at a crossroads. Over the past decade neo-liberal governments have reasserted their claim to land in Australia and refuse to either negotiate with the Indigenous owners or to make amends for the damage done by dispossession. Many Indigenous communities are in a parlous state under threat both physically and culturally.<br><br>In <i>Sovereign Subjects</i> some of Indigenous Australia's emerging and well-known critical thinkers examine the implications for Indigenous people of continuing to live in a state founded on invasion. They show how for Indigenous people self-determination welfare dependency representation cultural maintenance history writing reconciliation land ownership and justice are all inextricably linked to the original act of dispossession by white settlers and the ongoing loss of sovereignty.<br><br>At a time when the old left political agenda has run its course and the new right is looking increasingly morally bankrupt <i>Sovereign Subjects</i> sets a new rights agenda for Indigenous politics and Indigenous studies.</p>