Sharing the Sovereign: Indigenous Peoples, Recognition, Treaties and the State

Dominic O’Sullivan is Associate Professor of political science at Charles Sturt University, Australia, and an Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Maori Health Research at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He is from the Te Rarawa and Ngati Kahu iwi of New Zealand, and this is his eighth book. The most recent ‘We Are All Here to Stay’: Sovereignty, Citizenship and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was published in 2020.

• Chapter 1.Introduction.- Chapter 2.Recognition.- Chapter 3.Recognising Sovereignty and Citizenship.- Chapter 4.Makarrata, Truth and Treaties as Social Contracts.- Chapter 5. The Treaty of Waitangi.- Chapter 6.Recognition, Pluralism and Participation.- Chapter 7.Beyond consultation: participation as influence.- Chapter 8. Power and Presence: indigenising public decision-making. Chapter 9.Conclusion.