Declarations of Interdependence

Kirsten Anker is Assistant Professor in law at McGill University. Originally from Australia, her teaching and research focus on fostering greater engagement with Indigenous legal traditions in Canada.

'This important work goes beyond conventional accounts of the recognition of indigenous rights. Building on critical pluralist theories, Anker challenges us to re-imagine ways of thinking law(s), and in so doing takes us to the heart of the problem of legal encounters which has proven such an intractable issue in Australia, Canada and elsewhere.' Shaunnagh Dorsett, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia ’In this book, Anker provides a comprehensively researched, beautifully written and passionately argued case for adopting her innovative critical discursive legal pluralist approach to the question of the legal relationship between indigenous peoples and the modern state.’ Anthony J. Connolly, Australian National University, Australia ’In this moving and erudite engagement, Kirsten Anker takes the recognition of Indigenous peoples and their rights exactly where it should go - away from a template of occidental law, sovereignty and perception and towards a formative plurality of relation between it and Indigenous law, life and perception. The result not only nuances the relation beautifully, but refracts it through the occidental in a telling critique. A work of prime significance for legal theory generally.’ Peter Fitzpatrick, Birkbeck University of London, UK

• Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Recognition; Chapter 3 Law in Time and Space: Dimensions of Legal Pluralism; Chapter 4 Translation: Evidentiary Fact, Language and Law; Chapter 5 Proof: The Ngurrara Canvas; Chapter 6 Negotiated Agreements; Chapter 7 Conclusion;