Wed 23rd
14:15
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Room K114
Newman Building |
"From Denial to Emergency: Governing Indigenous Communities in Australia"
- Dr Deirdre Howard-Wagner, Socio-Legal Studies, School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Sydney
Dr Deirdre Howard-Wagner is a sociologist and lecturer in socio-legal studies at the University of Sydney in Australia. Her area of research expertise are Indigenous people, law and society and state responses to international human rights obligations (such as Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination; the refugee’s right to basic human rights and protection; and, how states are reinterpreting, containing and remapping their human rights responsibilities). Her work has made a significant socio-legal and sociological contribution to the study of Australian federal Indigenous law and policy governing Indigenous affairs in the contemporary period, especially in the context of international human rights developments. She has contextualised this shift through ethnographic research. Most recently, she has been writing a number of papers on the 'national emergency response' declared in Australia’s Northern Territory in 2007, whiteness, power relations and resistance and the ‘practical’ recognition of Indigenous rights.
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