Global welfare egalitarianism, resource rights, and decolonization
- This paper argues that land and resource rights are often essential in overcoming colonial inequality and devaluation of indigenous populations and cultures. It thereby criticizes global welfare egalitarians that promote the abolition of national sovereignty over resources in the name of increased equality. The paper discusses two ways in which land and resource rights contribute to decolonization and the eradication of the associated inequality. First, it proposes that land and resource rights have acquired a status-conferring function for (formerly) colonized peoples so that possession of full personhood and relational equality is partially expressed through the possession of land and resource rights. Second, it suggests that successful internal decolonization depends on access to and control over land and resources, especially for indigenous peoples.
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| Author: | Kerstin Reibold |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-674673 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/gjn.13.01.190 |
| ISSN: | 1835-6842 |
| Parent Title (English): | Global justice : theory, practice, rhetoric |
| Publisher: | The Global Justice Network |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/07/24 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/07/24 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2022/03/23 |
| Tag: | colonialism; decolonization; indigenous peoples; land rights; relational equality; welfare egalitarianism |
| Volume: | 13.2021 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page Number: | 19 |
| First Page: | 80 |
| Last Page: | 98 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 493720928 |
| Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
