Indigenous Rights and Claims for Freedom in Settler States

Autores/as

  • Dimitrios Panagos Memorial University of Newfoundland

Resumen

Scholars such as Joyce Green and James Tully advance that Indigenous peoples, in settler states like Canada, are engaged in an ongoing, centuries-old struggle for freedom. Rights are an important instrument for securing and protecting freedom. However, a survey of the scholarship on freedom reveals a significant degree of contestation surrounding the nature and scope of this very basic human interest. In this paper, I examine three different conceptions of freedom with a view of assessing these conceptions’ suitability as a cornerstone of Indigenous rights. Specifically, I analyze a liberal conception of freedom (i.e. Isaiah Berlin’s work on negative liberty), a republican conception (i.e. Philip Pettit’s work on liberty as non-domination) and an Indigenous conception (i.e. John Borrows’ work on liberty as mobility). The purpose of this analysis is twofold. First, I aim to outline the types of rights and duties underpinned by each conception of freedom. Second, I aim to make the case that the liberal and republican conceptions are unsatisfactory, while Borrows’ conception shows some genuine promise, assuming the goal is to advance a set of rights and duties that would be useful in the Indigenous struggle for freedom.

Biografía del autor/a

Dimitrios Panagos, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Associate Professor, Political Science

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Publicado

2019-09-05

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Part III: Forum - Rights in Times of Challenges