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The settler-rights backlash: understanding liberal challenges to Indigenous self-determination

Aaron John SpitzerInstitute of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.Correspondence[email protected]
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Pages 573-590 | Received 15 Jun 2021, Published online: 28 Apr 2022

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