This event has been RESCHEDULED for a date to be announced in 2019 As
there has been considerable interest in this symposium you are advised
to register now. All those who have registered their interest in
advance will be the first to be advised when a new date has been
decided. REGISTER YOUR INTEREST NOW Sovereignty is a foundational
concept for the globally dominant systems of jurisprudence,
international relations and governance. But this Western thinking
about sovereignty is stuck in the European and colonial past, making
it hard to deal with a whole range of urgent global and local
challenges from climate change, to ecosystem protection and renewal,
to honouring the wisdom of indigenous cultures. Sovereignty’s
expression in the theory of the nation state since the Treaty of
Westphalia in 1648 and the sovereignty of the individual according to
some readings of the US Constitution of 1787 have become inimical to
the viability of our own species and many others as well. A new
conception of sovereignty vested in the Earth and asserting the
preeminence of respect for the matrix of life, the integrity of the
biosphere, and the inalienability of our global commons has become a
necessity. The redefinition of Earth sovereignty as prior to and more
fundamental than human agency would provide a basis on which to
reframe all our doctrines of authority, justice and responsible
governance. In this respect Australia’s indigenous knowledge systems
and traditions of Caring for Country have much to teach the hegemonic
cultures of crisis prone techno-industrial growth societies. This
symposium will invite a dialogue between four principal praxis streams
within a context of indigenous understandings of human participation
in and responsibility for the natural order. The four praxis streams
will be: • Law, Governance and Politics • Earth System Science •
Planetary Health • Society and Culture Particpation in the symposium
will be by invitation following a call for expressions of interest.
Participants may offer to present a paper, convene a panel, facilitate
a roundtable or dialogue circle, or simply contribute to the
deliberations.
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