Original Nation Approaches to Inter-National Law: The Quest for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Nature in the Age of Anthropocene [Hardcover]

This book introduces the Original Nation scholarship to examine the historical genealogy of the nations struggles against the state. A fundamentally different portrait of history, geography, politics, and the role of law emerges when the perspective of the nation and peoples is placed at the center of geopolitical analysis of global affairs. In contrast to traditional and canonical state-centric narratives, the Original Nation scholarship offers a diametrically distinct on-the-ground and bottom-up portrait of the struggle, resistance, and defiance of the nation and peoples. It exposes persistent global patterns of genocide, ecocide, and ethnocide that have resulted from attempts by the state to occupy, suppress, exploit, and destroy the nation. The Original Nation scholarship offers a powerful and widely applicable intellectual tool to examine the history of resilience, emancipatory struggles, and collective efforts to build a vibrant alternative world among the nation and peoplesacross the globe.

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Original Nation Scholarship. - Chapter 2. The Nation and the State. - Chapter 3. The Conflict Between the Nation and the State. - Chapter 4. Original Nation Approaches to Inter-National Law (ONAIL): Definitive Dimensions of Ecologically-Centered Inter-National Legal Discourses. - Chapter 5. The Lakota Nations Search for Independence: The Nation of Lakota versus the State of The United States of America and the Constitutional Amendments for National Liberation. - Chapter 6. Earth Jurisprudence, The Rights of Nature, and International Rights of Nature Tribunals, etc.

Hiroshi Fukurai is Professor of Legal Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, and is the Immediate-Past President of the Asian Law and Society Association (ALSA). He is specialized in lay adjudication, indigenous approaches to international law, and Asian law and politics. His books include