Remote Freedoms: Politics, Personhood and Human Rights in Aboriginal Central Australia

by Sarah E Holcombe and Sarah E. Holcombe

Book Overview

What does it mean to be a "rights-holder" and how does it come about? Remote Freedoms explores the contradictions and tensions of localized human rights work in very remote Indigenous communities.

Based on field research with Anangu of Central Australia, this book investigates how universal human rights are understood, practiced, negotiated, and challenged in concert and in conflict with Indigenous rights. Moving between communities,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503606473
• ISBN13: 9781503606470
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"