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Author Watson, Nicole, 1973- author.

Title Aboriginal women, law and critical race theory : storytelling from the margins / Nicole Watson
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Palgrave studies in race, ethnicity, indigeneity and criminal justice
Palgrave studies in race, ethnicity, indigeneity and criminal justice.
Contents Critical Race Theory, Critical Race Feminism, and the Story of Outsiders -- Outlaw Women : Emerging from Invisibility to Resistance -- Eliza Woree : A Pioneer of Outlaw Culture
Summary This book explores storytelling as an innovative means of improving understanding of Indigenous people and their histories and struggles including with the law. It uses the Critical Race Theory (CRT) tool of outsider or counter storytelling to illuminate the practices that have been used by generations of Aboriginal women to create an outlaw culture and to resist their invisibility to law. Legal scholars are yet to use storytelling to bring the experiential knowledge of Aboriginal women to the centre of legal scholarship and yet this book demonstrates how this can be done by way of a new methodology that combines elements of CRT with speculative biography. In one chapter, the author tells the imagined story of Eliza Woree who featured prominently in the backdrop to the decision of the Supreme Court of Queensland in Dempsey v Rigg (1914) but whose voice was erased from the judgements. This accessible book adds a new and innovative dimension to the use of CRT to examine the nexus between race and settler colonialism. It speaks to those interested in Indigenous peoples and the law, Indigenous studies, Indigenous policy, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, feminist studies, race and the law, and cultural studies. Nicole Watson is an Aboriginal scholar from Queensland, who is descended from the Munanjali and Birri Gubba Peoples. She is a published novelist and a former columnist with the National Indigenous Times. Nicole is currently employed as the Director of the Academic Unit, Nura Gili Centre for Indigenous Programs, University of New South Wales
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Subject Indigenous women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia
Critical race theory -- Australia
Storytelling.
Critical legal studies -- Australia
Critical legal studies
Storytelling
Australia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030873271
3030873277