West Papuan Decolonisation

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.

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

Autorentext

Dr Eileen Hanrahan is an independent scholar.

Klappentext

Chapter 1: Introduction to the topic and theoretical paradigm of the decolonising project.- Chapter 2: US narrative: our 'adroit' diplomats resolve the 'territorial dispute' in the Cold War era.- Chapter 3: Indonesian narrative: the 'reintegration' of Irian Jaya into the Republic of Indonesia.- Chapter 4: International Law historical narrative: Real-politik's subterfuge of self-determination processes.-Chapter 5: West Papuan survivance narrative: straightening history.- Chapter 6: Conclusions, carrying stories and hopes.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction to the topic and theoretical paradigm of the decolonising project.- Chapter 2: US narrative: our 'adroit' diplomats resolve the 'territorial dispute' in the Cold War era.- Chapter 3: Indonesian narrative: the 'reintegration' of Irian Jaya into the Republic of Indonesia.- Chapter 4: International Law historical narrative: Real-politik's subterfuge of self-determination processes.-Chapter 5: West Papuan survivance narrative: straightening history.- Chapter 6: Conclusions, carrying stories and hopes.