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. https://doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2018.1539893 .
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.
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
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. https://doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2018.1539893 .
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.
Watson, I (2009). Sovereign Spaces, Caring for Country, and the Homeless Position of Aboriginal Peoples, South Atlantic Quarterly 108 (1): 27–51. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2008-021
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. (2012) 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. (2012) 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, AWAYE! Radio National, ABC, 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 December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/127.