Aboriginal Women, Law and Critical Race Theory: Storytelling From The Margins

This book explores storytelling as a powerful tool to improve understanding of Indigenous people and their histories, including their struggles with the law. It employs the Critical Race Theory (CRT) approach of "outsider or "counter storytelling" to highlight the practices used by Aboriginal women to create an outlaw culture and resist their invisibility to law. By combining elements of CRT with speculative biography, the author showcases how storytelling can bring the experiential knowledge of Aboriginal women to the forefront of legal scholarship. The book offers a fresh perspective on the use of CRT to examine the intersection of race and settler colonialism and is relevant to scholars and practitioners interested in Indigenous peoples and the law, Indigenous studies, Indigenous policy, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, feminist studies, race and the law, and cultural studies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 102 pages
Publication date: 11 December 2021
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This captivating book delves into the realm of storytelling as a groundbreaking approach to enhancing our understanding of Indigenous people and their rich histories, as well as the challenges they face, particularly in relation to the law. By employing the Critical Race Theory (CRT) tool of "outsider or "counter storytelling, the author sheds light on the practices employed by generations of Aboriginal women to forge an outlaw culture and resist their invisibility to the law. While legal scholars have yet to fully leverage storytelling to center the experiential knowledge of Aboriginal women in legal scholarship, this book showcases a novel methodology that seamlessly blends elements of CRT with speculative biography. In one chapter, the author weaves an imagined narrative, recounting the story of Eliza Woree, a prominent figure in the backdrop of the landmark Supreme Court of Queensland decision in Dempsey v. Rigg (1914). However, her voice was unfortunately erased from the judgements. This accessible book offers a fresh and innovative perspective on the application of CRT to explore the intricate relationship between race and settler colonialism. It resonates with those passionate about Indigenous peoples and the law, Indigenous studies, Indigenous policy, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, feminist studies, race and the law, and cultural studies.

Weight: 308g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030873264
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022