This Palgrave Pivot strives to recount and understand Indigenous Law as set within a remote
community in northern Australia. It pays close attention to the realpolitik and high-level
political functioning of Indigenous Laws which inspires a discussion of how this Law models
the relational influences governance and emplaces people in an ordered kincentric lifeworld.
The book argues that Indigenous Law can be examined for the ways in which it is a deliberate
stabilizing and powerful force to maintain communal order in relation to country a counter
framing to popular and 'soft law or soft power asset' visions of such Laws often held in the
national and international imaginary. It is the latter which too often renders this knowledge
esoteric and relinquishes it to a category of lore or folklore. This is an open access book.
