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The Colonialism of Human Rights
Ongoing Hypocrisies of Western Liberalism
Colin Samson
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Copyright © Colin Samson 2020
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First published in 2020 by Polity Press
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-2997-1
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Names: Samson, Colin, author.
Title: The colonialism of human rights : ongoing hypocrisies of western liberalism / Colin Samson.
Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Human rights have never been universal and the costs are still being unequally paid today”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020000112 (print) | LCCN 2020000113 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509529971 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509529988 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509530007 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Human rights--Developing countries. | Imperialism--History. | Slavery--History. | Indigenous peoples--Colonization. | Indigenous peoples--Civil rights. | North and south.
Classification: LCC JC599.D44 S26 2020 (print) | LCC JC599.D44 (ebook) | DDC 323.09172/4--dc23
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Acknowledgements
Exchanges with many people have seeped into my thinking and writing.
For twenty-five years, I have researched and worked with indigenous groups in many places, and these experiences sensitized me to the ongoing nature of colonialism. Seeing how indigenous peoples struggle to maintain their lands and ways of life against the power of national governments to dispossess and assimilate them made me aware of parallels with formerly colonized and enslaved peoples. I saw such parallels while working with the Innu of the Labrador-Quebec Peninsula, joining families in hunting camps on lands officially earmarked as ‘Crown land’, and attending meetings between Innu and the Canadian government. Among many, I would like to thank Napes Ashini, Marcel Ashini, George Rich and Tony Jenkinson. As a volunteer at the Oceti Sakowin camp in 2016, I participated in the Water Protectors movement at Standing Rock to contest an oil pipeline driving through Sioux lands and sacred places. I would like to thank all those who educated me and took me to Standing Rock while I was at the University of Wyoming, as a visiting professor in 2015–16. These include Caskey Russell, Reinette Tendore and Giz Tendore, and also Tory Fodder, who wasn’t at Standing Rock, but was a great source of wisdom.
Some people have read whole chapters of my book, and I owe much to the insights they provided me. Øyvind Ravna of the University of Tromsø not only taught me a lot about treaties and international law, but also read Chapter
