Consultation, Consent, and the Silencing of Indigenous Communities

Autor(en)

Leo Townsend, Dina Lupin Townsend

Abstrakt

Over the past few decades, Indigenous communities have successfully campaigned for greater inclusion in decision-making processes that directly affect their lands and livelihoods. As a result, two important participatory rights for Indigenous peoples have now been widely recognized: the right to consultation and the right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC). Although these participatory rights are meant to empower the speech of these communities—to give them a proper say in the decisions that most affect them—we argue that the way these rights have been implemented and interpreted sometimes has the opposite effect, of denying them a say or ‘silencing’ them. In support of this conclusion we draw on feminist speech act theory to identify practices of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary group silencing that arise in the context of consultation with Indigenous communities.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Philosophie

Journal

Journal of Applied Philosophy

Band

37

Seiten

781-798

Anzahl der Seiten

18

ISSN

0264-3758

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12438

Publikationsdatum

05-2020

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

603120 Sprachphilosophie

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Philosophy

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/3724d451-459e-4c7a-a130-57de9c8d4f20