Overview
Provides a legal, historical and political context to West Papuan political claims in the early 2000s
Includes an innovative paradigm combining Settler Colonial Studies and Critical Indigenous Theory
Demonstrates attributes of competing narratives that all point to the typical attributes of narratives in a settler colonial historical contestation
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About this book
In alignment with Indigenous Politics, an emerging sub-field of Politics and IR, this book considers West Papuan Indigenous nationhood. Combining Settler Colonial Studies and Critical Indigenous Theory, the research opens up sovereignty as a political category of analysis to reveal an embedded nation within Indonesia.
In June 2000 the Second Papuan People’s Congress in Jayapura rejected the basis on which West Papua had been incorporated into Indonesia and resolved that the “people of Papua have been sovereign as a nation and a state since 1 December 1962”. Indonesian president Wahid firmly opposed this resolution and state officials posted historical narratives on the Australian Embassy website that legitimated Indonesia’s incorporation of the once non-self-governing territory.
A mapping and analysis of these narratives demonstrate a settler colonial present within Southeast Asia. It is argued that the US’s appeasement of Indonesia’s takeover in the 1960s was based on the Great Power’s concern to promote its strategic and economic status in the region.
“This is a timely intervention that contributes to a growing debate on settler colonialism as a mode of domination that characterises the global present and involves locales not normally seen as settler colonial. West Papua fits the bill”.
-Associate Professor Lorenzo Veracini, author of Settler Colonial Studies: A Theoretical overview.
Reviews
“While the facts of West Papua’s political history remain unchallenged, the narratives provided by four separate actors— the United States, international legal scholars, Indonesia, and West Papua—provide strikingly different representations of those facts. Hanrahan addresses each narrative separately, using a combination of Settler Colonial Studies and Critical Indigenous Theory to frame each narrative and understand the underlying intent of each actor. In doing so, Hanrahan reveals an important but seemingly ignored truth: West Papua was denied a proper decolonization process and as a result, remains a colonial state.” (--Calia Anderson, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics (JILP), Volume 54, Number 1 – Fall 2021)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: West Papuan Decolonisation
Book Subtitle: Contesting Histories
Authors: Eileen Hanrahan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4302-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4301-6Published: 02 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-4302-3Published: 01 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 145
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations, History of Southeast Asia, Political History, Asian History, Asian Politics