40204 - Law and Settler Colonialism: Indigenous Sovereignty, Resistance, and Jurisdiction

Description

Engaging with ongoing struggles over sovereignty, land, and jurisdiction, this session examines how colonial legal frameworks are contested, appropriated, and transformed. Submissions may focus on treaty law, land defense, or community-based legal orders that unsettle state-centric legal authority.

Sub Unit

• Sociology of Law Section / Law and Settler Colonialism: Indigenous Sovereignty, Resistance, and Jurisdiction

Presider

• Santi Leco, University of Arizona

Individual Presentations

• Who we ought to be: Tribal sovereignty and the historical development of mixed-blood Native identity - Beth Redbird, Northwestern University

• A Late Welcome: The Case of French Postcolonial Naturalization Policy for the Aging - Sonia Blanche Planson, University of Notre Dame

Session Organizer

• Louise Marie Roth, University of Arizona