Law and Society International Conference 2012 CRN 34
L. Jane McMillan
We will have a business meeting of the Law and Indigeneity Collaborative
Research Network (34) at the International Law and Society Conference in
Hawaii 2012. Please look for the time and place in the meeting schedule.
Please distribute the following widely and encourage people to participate
in CRN 34 Law and Indigeneity A Collaborative Research Network
Research topics relating to the intersection of law and Indigenous peoples
are at the heart of this Collaborative Research Network (CRN), which began
in 2007 at the joint Law and Society meeting in Berlin, Germany. The CRN is
intended to serve as a place for engagement across borders and disciplines
for people concerned with the centrality of indigeneity in sociolegal
scholarship.
This CRN challenges people to consider and acknowledge the vast dimensions
of indigeneity in their sociolegal research. The relationships between
Indigenous peoples and law are multiple, overlapping, and dynamic, and they
constitute a rich field for sociolegal inquiry. The study of law and
indigeneity is international and global in scope and we seek to promote
much-needed interaction and comparative analyses with scholars around the
world. The CRN provides a forum to share the similarities and differences
between colonial/postcolonial/neo-imperial nations and the complex
experiences of Indigenous peoples. Our hope is to expand the discussion
beyond discourses of resistance and human rights, to advance broader
understandings of what constitutes law for Indigenous peoples and foreground
the multiple sites of knowledge production, and its mobilization. This
multidisciplinary forum examines historical and contemporary situations that
inform issues of indigeneity and that contextualize engagement with formal
and informal legal institutions.
We are currently preparing papers, panels, author-meets-reader and round
tables for the International Conference on Law and Society meeting June 5-8,
2012 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. The deadline for the call for papers is
December 6th 2011. Our plan is to invigorate this and future meetings with
the centrality of Law and Indigeneity and generate and sustain opportunities
for collaborative research and practice. We invite you to participate this
network, identify thematic areas you are working in or would like more
information on, and post your research projects and products.
All the best,
Jane
L. Jane McMillan, PhD
Canada Research Chair Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Communities
St. Francis Xavier University
Associate Professor Department of Anthropology
PO Box 5000 Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G2W5
902.867.5021 office
902.867.5024 ethnographic research lab
902.867.5456 fax
ljmc...@stfx.ca