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

Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Appropriation of Land, Assimilation not Decolonization, Authority, Canadian settler colonialism, Chief Deskaheh, Co-development, Colonial Hierarchies, Colonial Interests, Colonial Power Structures, Control, Dispossession, Enforcement Mechanisms, Exclusion, Haudenosaunee, human rights, Human Rights Discourse, Illusion, Illusion of Progress, Indigenous Advocacy, Indigenous Self-Determination, Indigenous Sovereignty, International Repudiation, International Rights Document, International Stage, Interpretation, League of Nations, Maori, Moral Authority, No Legal Change, Non-binding, Not Legally Binding, Ownership, Patriarchal White Sovereignty, Performative, Politics of Recognition, Possessive Logic, Possessive Logic of Patriarchal White Sovereignty, Privileges, Provisions of Land, Racialized Logic, Recognition, Reinforce Power, Relational Responsibilities to Land, Selective Engagement, Settler Colonial Power Structures, Settler Colonial Sovereignty, Settler Colonialism, Symbolic gestures, Systemic Injustices, T.W. Ratana, Threat to Sovereignty, Treaty Violations, UNDRIP, United Nations, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Vague Language, Virtuous Racial States, Weaponized Recognition, Weaponized Virtue, White Privilege