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

Kim J

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This factsheet is a distillation of Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s piece on how UNDRIP, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, is used by settler colonial states to reinforce their sovereignty and uphold colonial structures of power. These settler colonial states, in significant part through the use of UNDRIP, weaponize recognition and virtue in the pursuit to sustain their dominance.

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  • 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.

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