Antiracist History & Theory

Deploying Virtue, Denying Justice: The Illusion of Recognition Through UNDRIP

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Description

This factsheet is a distillation of Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s work on how the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is used by settler colonial states to reinforce their sovereignty and uphold colonial structures of power. Through UNDRIP, settler states weaponize recognition and virtue in order to maintain their dominance.

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References

  • Moreton-Robinson, Alieen. "Virtuous Racial States: The possessive Logic of Patriarchal White Sovereignty and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;• Griffith Law Review 20.3 (2011): 641-658.

Source Authors

Aileen Moreton-Robinson

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Keywords

Advocacy, Appropriation of Land, Assimilation, Assimilation not Decolonization, Authority, Canadian settler colonialism, Colonial Hierarchies, Colonial Interests, Colonial Power Structures, Control, Decolonization, Dehumanization, Dispossession, Enforcement Mechanisms, Exclusion, Haudenosaunee, human rights, Human Rights Discourse, Illusion of Progress, Indigenous Advocacy, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Self-Determination, Indigenous Sovereignty, Informed Consent, International Repudiation, International Rights Document, International Stage, Interpretation, Justice and Inclusion, Land Rights, League of Nations, Legal Power, Limited Action, Maori, Moral Authority, National Laws, No Legal Change, Ownership, Patriarchal White Sovereignty, Performative, Politics of Recognition, Possessive Logic, Possessive Logic of Patriarchal White Sovereignty, Privileges, Progresive Image, Provisions of Land, Racialized Logic, Racism, Recognition, Recognition Politics, Relational Responsibilities, Relational Responsibilities to Land, Resistance, Selective Engagement, Self-Determination, Settler Colonial Power Structures, Settler Colonial Sovereignty, Settler Colonial States, Settler Colonialism, Settler Dominance, Settler States, Sovereignty, Symbolic gestures, Systemic Injustices, Threat to Sovereignty, Treaty Violations, UNDRIP, United Nations, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Vague Language, Weaponized Recognition, Weaponized Virtue, White Privilege, Whiteness

Key Figures

Chief Deskaheh, T.W Ratana