Summary
International-law scholar cited by The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People for both the absence of an agreed definition of indigenous peoples and the five fundamental claims such peoples raise, and for the conclusion that the global concept, though incoherent, has great normative power for relatively powerless groups (The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People, PDF p.4-5 / printed p.84-85).
Details
- The five issues: human rights and non-discrimination, minorities, self-determination, historic sovereignty, and claims to be recognised as indigenous peoples (PDF p.4, note 10).
- Quoted: the concept is “unworkable and dangerously incoherent […]. But it is a concept of great normative power for many relatively powerless groups that have suffered grievous abuses” (PDF p.4-5, notes 1 and 11; the article cites Kingsbury at p.106 in note 9 and at pp.414-415 in notes 1 and 11, a variation recorded under Open questions on the source page).
Related pages
The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People, Indigeneity, Jose Martinez Cobo