Irene Watson
Title
Irene Watson
Rights
Birthplace
Tanganekald and Meintangk, Tanganekald, South-east of South Australia.
Primary Sources
Watson, I. (2019). Colonial Logic and the Coorong Massacres. Adelaide Law Review, 40(1), 167–172.
https://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/138873
Watson, I. (2018). Aboriginal Relationships to the Natural World: Colonial Protection of Human Rights and the Environment. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 9(2), 119–140.
https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2018.02.01
Watson, I. (2018). Aboriginal Recognition: Treaties and Colonial Constitutions We Have Been Here Forever. Bond Law Review, 30(1), 7–18.
Watson, I. (2017). Aboriginal Laws and Colonial Foundation. Griffith Law Review, 26(4), 469–479.
Watson, I. (2016) Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law: Raw Law, ISBN 9781138685963 , Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/Aboriginal-Peoples-Colonialism-and-International-Law-Raw-Law/Watson/p/book/9781138685963
Watson, I. (2016) First Nations and the Colonial Project, Inter Gentes, 1(1), 30-39.
Watson, I. (2014). Re-Centring First Nations Knowledge and Places in a Terra Nullius Space. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 10(5), 508–520.
https://doi.org/10.1177/117718011401000506
Watson, I. (2014). In the Northern Territory Intervention, what is saved or rescued and at what cost? In T. Neale, C. McKinnon, & E. Vincent (Eds.), History, power, text: Cultural studies and Indigenous studies (pp. 167–186). UTS ePRESS. Accessed Sept 1, 2022.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1w36pd7
Watson I. (2012). The future is our past: We once were sovereign and we still are. Indigenous Law Bulletin, 40, 12–14.
Watson, I and Venne. S. (2012). Talking up Indigenous Peoples' Original Intent in a Space Dominated by State Interventions.In Pulitano, E. and Trask, M. Indigenous Rights in the Age of the UN Declaration, 87–109. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.
Watson, I. (2009). Aboriginality and the violence of colonialism. Borderlands e-Journal, 8(1), 1–8. Accessed Sept 1, 2022.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2476792
Watson, I. (2007). Aboriginal sovereignties: Past, present and future (im)possibilities. In S. Perera (Ed.), Our patch: Enacting Australian sovereignty post-2001 (pp. 23–44). Network Books.
Watson, I. (2005). Settled and unsettled Spaces: Are we free to roam? Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Journal, 1, 140–52. Accessed Sept 1, 2022.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2482915
https://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/138873
Watson, I. (2018). Aboriginal Relationships to the Natural World: Colonial Protection of Human Rights and the Environment. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 9(2), 119–140.
https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2018.02.01
Watson, I. (2018). Aboriginal Recognition: Treaties and Colonial Constitutions We Have Been Here Forever. Bond Law Review, 30(1), 7–18.
Watson, I. (2017). Aboriginal Laws and Colonial Foundation. Griffith Law Review, 26(4), 469–479.
Watson, I. (2016) Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law: Raw Law, ISBN 9781138685963 , Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/Aboriginal-Peoples-Colonialism-and-International-Law-Raw-Law/Watson/p/book/9781138685963
Watson, I. (2016) First Nations and the Colonial Project, Inter Gentes, 1(1), 30-39.
Watson, I. (2014). Re-Centring First Nations Knowledge and Places in a Terra Nullius Space. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 10(5), 508–520.
https://doi.org/10.1177/117718011401000506
Watson, I. (2014). In the Northern Territory Intervention, what is saved or rescued and at what cost? In T. Neale, C. McKinnon, & E. Vincent (Eds.), History, power, text: Cultural studies and Indigenous studies (pp. 167–186). UTS ePRESS. Accessed Sept 1, 2022.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1w36pd7
Watson I. (2012). The future is our past: We once were sovereign and we still are. Indigenous Law Bulletin, 40, 12–14.
Watson, I and Venne. S. (2012). Talking up Indigenous Peoples' Original Intent in a Space Dominated by State Interventions.In Pulitano, E. and Trask, M. Indigenous Rights in the Age of the UN Declaration, 87–109. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.
Watson, I. (2009). Aboriginality and the violence of colonialism. Borderlands e-Journal, 8(1), 1–8. Accessed Sept 1, 2022.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2476792
Watson, I. (2007). Aboriginal sovereignties: Past, present and future (im)possibilities. In S. Perera (Ed.), Our patch: Enacting Australian sovereignty post-2001 (pp. 23–44). Network Books.
Watson, I. (2005). Settled and unsettled Spaces: Are we free to roam? Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Journal, 1, 140–52. Accessed Sept 1, 2022.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2482915
Secondary Sources
Bowrey, K., Watson, I., & Hadley, M. (2022). Decolonising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research. Australian Universities Review, 64(1), 54-64.
Roberts, L. (2022). Sexuate Difference, Sovereignty and Colonialism: Reading Luce Irigaray with Irene Watson. Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions, 1–18.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-022-00924-1
Faulkner, J. (2020). Settler-Colonial Violence and the “Wounded Aboriginal Child”: Reading Alexis Wright with Irene Watson (and Giorgio Agamben). International Journal for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy, 9(4), 45–60.
https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.1689
Watson, I Submission prepared for the United Nations Seminar on "Strengthening partnership between Indigenous Peoples and States: Treaties, Agreements and Constructive Arrangements, Geneva, 16-17th July 2012.
Roberts, L. (2022). Sexuate Difference, Sovereignty and Colonialism: Reading Luce Irigaray with Irene Watson. Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions, 1–18.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-022-00924-1
Faulkner, J. (2020). Settler-Colonial Violence and the “Wounded Aboriginal Child”: Reading Alexis Wright with Irene Watson (and Giorgio Agamben). International Journal for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy, 9(4), 45–60.
https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.1689
Watson, I Submission prepared for the United Nations Seminar on "Strengthening partnership between Indigenous Peoples and States: Treaties, Agreements and Constructive Arrangements, Geneva, 16-17th July 2012.
Extra Resources
Watson I (2020) A Differing Legal Opinion, with Daniel Browning Radio National, Radio National, ABC, AWAYE! Accessed Aug 19, 2022.
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/awaye/a-differing-legal-opinion/3814092
Watson, I (2017) Aboriginal Treaties for the Past and Present, Radio National ABC, Accessed Aug 19, 2022.
https://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/irene-watson-aboriginal-treaties-for-past-present-and-future/11268294
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/awaye/a-differing-legal-opinion/3814092
Watson, I (2017) Aboriginal Treaties for the Past and Present, Radio National ABC, Accessed Aug 19, 2022.
https://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/irene-watson-aboriginal-treaties-for-past-present-and-future/11268294
Collection
Citation
“Irene Watson,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 11, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/127.