Melina Selverston
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198781837
- eISBN:
- 9780191598968
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198781830.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Democratization
The indigenous movement in Ecuador has emerged in recent years as one of the most important social movements in the country. By organizing to protest the withdrawal of social and material rights ...
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The indigenous movement in Ecuador has emerged in recent years as one of the most important social movements in the country. By organizing to protest the withdrawal of social and material rights under the neo‐liberal economic model and their continuing political exclusion within a democracy, Ecuador's traditionally fragmented indigenous groups have created a powerful new political identity. This analysis focuses on two cases in which the indigenous confederation CONAIE successfully influenced the government's proposed reforms over land use and bilingual education in the mid 1990s. Identity politics proved to be an effective way for indigenous actors to challenge the neo‐liberal politics that threatened to undermine their social and political rights. In the process, indigenous mobilization focused national attention on the lack of political participation by popular sectors in the political system.Less
The indigenous movement in Ecuador has emerged in recent years as one of the most important social movements in the country. By organizing to protest the withdrawal of social and material rights under the neo‐liberal economic model and their continuing political exclusion within a democracy, Ecuador's traditionally fragmented indigenous groups have created a powerful new political identity. This analysis focuses on two cases in which the indigenous confederation CONAIE successfully influenced the government's proposed reforms over land use and bilingual education in the mid 1990s. Identity politics proved to be an effective way for indigenous actors to challenge the neo‐liberal politics that threatened to undermine their social and political rights. In the process, indigenous mobilization focused national attention on the lack of political participation by popular sectors in the political system.
José Antonio Lucero
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199936267
- eISBN:
- 9780199333066
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199936267.003.0013
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Latin American societies have long wrestled with the complex and sometimes contradictory terms of official multiculturalism. There is widespread agreement that a “regional model” of multicultural and ...
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Latin American societies have long wrestled with the complex and sometimes contradictory terms of official multiculturalism. There is widespread agreement that a “regional model” of multicultural and autonomy policies emerged in the 1990s, but the content and consequences of multicultural politics and Indigenous rights recognition are still debated. Drawing from previous research in the Andes, this chapter provides an overview of the varieties of multiculturalisms in Latin America and pays attention to their intersections with neoliberal governance, gender, and race. MCPs have been associated with both conservative and insurgent political projects in the Americas. This chapter reviews the traits of what Van Cott called the “regional model” of multiculturalism, and borrows Hirschman’s suggestive labels for “reactionary” arguments against ostensibly progressive policies to survey debates over official MCPs. By using Hirschman’s categories, the chapter moves past glowing endorsements of MCPs and their demonization, showing the complexities of the empirical middle ground.Less
Latin American societies have long wrestled with the complex and sometimes contradictory terms of official multiculturalism. There is widespread agreement that a “regional model” of multicultural and autonomy policies emerged in the 1990s, but the content and consequences of multicultural politics and Indigenous rights recognition are still debated. Drawing from previous research in the Andes, this chapter provides an overview of the varieties of multiculturalisms in Latin America and pays attention to their intersections with neoliberal governance, gender, and race. MCPs have been associated with both conservative and insurgent political projects in the Americas. This chapter reviews the traits of what Van Cott called the “regional model” of multiculturalism, and borrows Hirschman’s suggestive labels for “reactionary” arguments against ostensibly progressive policies to survey debates over official MCPs. By using Hirschman’s categories, the chapter moves past glowing endorsements of MCPs and their demonization, showing the complexities of the empirical middle ground.
Dominic O'Sullivan
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781447339427
- eISBN:
- 9781447339465
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447339427.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Indigeneity is a politics of potential. It allows indigenous peoples to think and pursue political aspirations beyond colonial victimhood. The politics of indigeneity is a theory of human agency. It ...
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Indigeneity is a politics of potential. It allows indigenous peoples to think and pursue political aspirations beyond colonial victimhood. The politics of indigeneity is a theory of human agency. It is closely intertwined with discourses of reconciliation, self-determination and sovereignty. This book explores these discourses’ significance for contemporary indigenous politics. It uses them to examine just terms of indigenous citizenship in three contemporary post-settler states. The book argues for differentiated liberal citizenship as a way of allowing indigenous peoples to share in the public sovereignty of the nation-state while, at the same time, sharing a meaningful political authority vested in indigenous institutions. It tests neo-colonial understandings of power, politics and justice.
The book’s comparative focus is unique. It compares the Australasian states with Fiji to show that historical constraints on political authority are not diminished with the withdrawal of the colonial power alone. Nor does the restoration of collective indigenous majority status, on its own, serve meaningful self-determination. Conversely, negative power relationships in Australia and New Zealand are not simply a function of minority status in majoritarian democracies. The comparison shows that the claims of indigeneity must hold equally well whatever the post-colonial indigenous population status.Less
Indigeneity is a politics of potential. It allows indigenous peoples to think and pursue political aspirations beyond colonial victimhood. The politics of indigeneity is a theory of human agency. It is closely intertwined with discourses of reconciliation, self-determination and sovereignty. This book explores these discourses’ significance for contemporary indigenous politics. It uses them to examine just terms of indigenous citizenship in three contemporary post-settler states. The book argues for differentiated liberal citizenship as a way of allowing indigenous peoples to share in the public sovereignty of the nation-state while, at the same time, sharing a meaningful political authority vested in indigenous institutions. It tests neo-colonial understandings of power, politics and justice.
The book’s comparative focus is unique. It compares the Australasian states with Fiji to show that historical constraints on political authority are not diminished with the withdrawal of the colonial power alone. Nor does the restoration of collective indigenous majority status, on its own, serve meaningful self-determination. Conversely, negative power relationships in Australia and New Zealand are not simply a function of minority status in majoritarian democracies. The comparison shows that the claims of indigeneity must hold equally well whatever the post-colonial indigenous population status.
Copeland Nicholas (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501736056
- eISBN:
- 9781501736070
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501736056.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Political History
This chapter examines how discourses of capacidad both enabled and constrained Sampedrano desires for democracy. I describe how state agrarian programs trained Sampedranos’ to solicit development ...
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This chapter examines how discourses of capacidad both enabled and constrained Sampedrano desires for democracy. I describe how state agrarian programs trained Sampedranos’ to solicit development projects, navigate the state, and run electoral campaigns, and how, after the transition to democracy, Mayas used discourses of capacidad to legitimate an indigenous right to govern, and eventually took municipal power in the mid 1990s. I describe the developmentalist political vision shared among this coalition, and how in 2003, this coalition splintered, and then lost an election to a less qualified candidate from an authoritarian party, revealing major exclusions in capacidad as a standard for earning rights.Less
This chapter examines how discourses of capacidad both enabled and constrained Sampedrano desires for democracy. I describe how state agrarian programs trained Sampedranos’ to solicit development projects, navigate the state, and run electoral campaigns, and how, after the transition to democracy, Mayas used discourses of capacidad to legitimate an indigenous right to govern, and eventually took municipal power in the mid 1990s. I describe the developmentalist political vision shared among this coalition, and how in 2003, this coalition splintered, and then lost an election to a less qualified candidate from an authoritarian party, revealing major exclusions in capacidad as a standard for earning rights.
Rauna Kuokkanen
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- March 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190913281
- eISBN:
- 9780190913311
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190913281.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Theory
This book interrogates normative conceptions of Indigenous self-determination and the structures of Indigenous self-government institutions, arguing that Indigenous self-determination is not ...
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This book interrogates normative conceptions of Indigenous self-determination and the structures of Indigenous self-government institutions, arguing that Indigenous self-determination is not achievable without restructuring all relations of domination beyond that with the state; nor can it be secured in the absence of gender justice. It demonstrates that the current rights discourse and focus on Indigenous–state relations is limited in scope and fails to convey the full meaning of self-determination for Indigenous peoples. Besides settler colonialism and neoliberal capitalism, relations of domination include racism, sexism, homophobia, misogyny, and gender violence, including violence against women, queer, trans and gender-nonconforming persons, and structural violence. Drawing on extensive participant interviews in Canada, Greenland, and Scandinavia, this book theorizes Indigenous self-determination as a foundational value, informed by the norm of integrity. This norm has two interrelated dimensions: bodily integrity and integrity of the land, both of which are a sine qua non for Indigenous gender justice. Conceptualizing self-determination as a foundational value seeks to restructure all relations of domination, including the hierarchical relation between self-determination and gender created and maintained by international law, Indigenous political discourse, and Indigenous institutions. The book argues that the persistent separation of issues between self-determination/self-government and gender/social is a major obstacle in implementing, realizing, and exercising Indigenous self-determination. Restructuring relations of domination further entails examining the gender regimes present in existing Indigenous self-government institutions, interrogating the relationship between Indigenous self-determination and gender violence, and considering future visions of Indigenous self-determination, including rematriation of Indigenous governance and an independent statehood.Less
This book interrogates normative conceptions of Indigenous self-determination and the structures of Indigenous self-government institutions, arguing that Indigenous self-determination is not achievable without restructuring all relations of domination beyond that with the state; nor can it be secured in the absence of gender justice. It demonstrates that the current rights discourse and focus on Indigenous–state relations is limited in scope and fails to convey the full meaning of self-determination for Indigenous peoples. Besides settler colonialism and neoliberal capitalism, relations of domination include racism, sexism, homophobia, misogyny, and gender violence, including violence against women, queer, trans and gender-nonconforming persons, and structural violence. Drawing on extensive participant interviews in Canada, Greenland, and Scandinavia, this book theorizes Indigenous self-determination as a foundational value, informed by the norm of integrity. This norm has two interrelated dimensions: bodily integrity and integrity of the land, both of which are a sine qua non for Indigenous gender justice. Conceptualizing self-determination as a foundational value seeks to restructure all relations of domination, including the hierarchical relation between self-determination and gender created and maintained by international law, Indigenous political discourse, and Indigenous institutions. The book argues that the persistent separation of issues between self-determination/self-government and gender/social is a major obstacle in implementing, realizing, and exercising Indigenous self-determination. Restructuring relations of domination further entails examining the gender regimes present in existing Indigenous self-government institutions, interrogating the relationship between Indigenous self-determination and gender violence, and considering future visions of Indigenous self-determination, including rematriation of Indigenous governance and an independent statehood.
Nicholas Copeland
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501736056
- eISBN:
- 9781501736070
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501736056.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Political History
What forces hinder decolonization efforts on the neoliberal terrain? In the aftermath of a genocidal scorched earth campaign, Mayas in the town of San Pedro Necta encountered a formidable ...
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What forces hinder decolonization efforts on the neoliberal terrain? In the aftermath of a genocidal scorched earth campaign, Mayas in the town of San Pedro Necta encountered a formidable democracy-development machine designed to displace radical class politics into private market advancement and local, indigenous-led electoral politics. Sampedranos regarded neoliberal democracy and development not as empty, depoliticized forms or colonial impositions, but as hard-won victories that met immediate needs and echoed revolutionary and local struggles. This historical ethnography examines how these governmentalized spaces fell short, simultaneously enabling and disfiguring an ethnic resurgence that fractured in a dispiriting atmosphere of pessimism, self-interest, deception, and mistrust. These dynamics fueled authoritarian populism but also radical reimaginings of democracy and development from below. These findings shed new light on rural politics in Guatemala and across neoliberal and post-conflict settings.Less
What forces hinder decolonization efforts on the neoliberal terrain? In the aftermath of a genocidal scorched earth campaign, Mayas in the town of San Pedro Necta encountered a formidable democracy-development machine designed to displace radical class politics into private market advancement and local, indigenous-led electoral politics. Sampedranos regarded neoliberal democracy and development not as empty, depoliticized forms or colonial impositions, but as hard-won victories that met immediate needs and echoed revolutionary and local struggles. This historical ethnography examines how these governmentalized spaces fell short, simultaneously enabling and disfiguring an ethnic resurgence that fractured in a dispiriting atmosphere of pessimism, self-interest, deception, and mistrust. These dynamics fueled authoritarian populism but also radical reimaginings of democracy and development from below. These findings shed new light on rural politics in Guatemala and across neoliberal and post-conflict settings.
Dominic O'Sullivan
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781447339427
- eISBN:
- 9781447339465
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447339427.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Although in very different ways, reconciliation is a political/theological nexus of foundational significance to indigenous politics in all three of Australia, Fiji and New Zealand. In each case, ...
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Although in very different ways, reconciliation is a political/theological nexus of foundational significance to indigenous politics in all three of Australia, Fiji and New Zealand. In each case, Christian churches have contributed to developing reconciliation from a solely religious precept to one of secular priority, deeply intertwined with the politics of indigeneity. In New Zealand, religious principles of reconciliation acquire secular expression through Treaty of Waitangi settlements and, in Australia, through the recognition of land rights and apologies to the stolen generations, for example. In contrast, contemporary Fijian politics is distinguished by an overtly religious nationalism that reconciliation has been co-opted to support. In all three jurisdictions, is preliminary to a liberal theory of indigeneity grounded in an inclusive differentiated citizenship.Less
Although in very different ways, reconciliation is a political/theological nexus of foundational significance to indigenous politics in all three of Australia, Fiji and New Zealand. In each case, Christian churches have contributed to developing reconciliation from a solely religious precept to one of secular priority, deeply intertwined with the politics of indigeneity. In New Zealand, religious principles of reconciliation acquire secular expression through Treaty of Waitangi settlements and, in Australia, through the recognition of land rights and apologies to the stolen generations, for example. In contrast, contemporary Fijian politics is distinguished by an overtly religious nationalism that reconciliation has been co-opted to support. In all three jurisdictions, is preliminary to a liberal theory of indigeneity grounded in an inclusive differentiated citizenship.
Dominic O'Sullivan
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781447339427
- eISBN:
- 9781447339465
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447339427.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Indigeneity is a theory of justice and political strategy that indigenous peoples use to develop their own terms of belonging to the nation-state. In particular it is distinct from theories of ...
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Indigeneity is a theory of justice and political strategy that indigenous peoples use to develop their own terms of belonging to the nation-state. In particular it is distinct from theories of minority rights because its claims are grounded in extant rights of prior occupancy. Indigeneity’s overarching claim is to create political space for substantive and sustainable reconciliation through self-determination and through particular indigenous shares in the sovereign authority of the state itself. Australia, Fiji and New Zealand are compared to show indigeneity’s limits as well is its possibilities, whether the post-colonial context is one of significant vulnerability or one where a coherent and considered account of political power is required for the translation of political advantage into meaningful self-determinationLess
Indigeneity is a theory of justice and political strategy that indigenous peoples use to develop their own terms of belonging to the nation-state. In particular it is distinct from theories of minority rights because its claims are grounded in extant rights of prior occupancy. Indigeneity’s overarching claim is to create political space for substantive and sustainable reconciliation through self-determination and through particular indigenous shares in the sovereign authority of the state itself. Australia, Fiji and New Zealand are compared to show indigeneity’s limits as well is its possibilities, whether the post-colonial context is one of significant vulnerability or one where a coherent and considered account of political power is required for the translation of political advantage into meaningful self-determination
Glen Sean Coulthard
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816679645
- eISBN:
- 9781452948409
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679645.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
The author’s investigation concludes with “5 theses” on Indigenous politics that highlight the core features of this resurgent approach to Indigenous decolonization in light of the “Idle No More” ...
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The author’s investigation concludes with “5 theses” on Indigenous politics that highlight the core features of this resurgent approach to Indigenous decolonization in light of the “Idle No More” movement that exploded onto the Canadian political scene late fall/early winter in 2012.Less
The author’s investigation concludes with “5 theses” on Indigenous politics that highlight the core features of this resurgent approach to Indigenous decolonization in light of the “Idle No More” movement that exploded onto the Canadian political scene late fall/early winter in 2012.
Dominic O'Sullivan
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781447339427
- eISBN:
- 9781447339465
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447339427.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Globalisation rationalised the colonisation of indigenous territories. Its pursuit of capital expansion is sometimes allowed to override indigenous cultural imperatives. However, it is also true that ...
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Globalisation rationalised the colonisation of indigenous territories. Its pursuit of capital expansion is sometimes allowed to override indigenous cultural imperatives. However, it is also true that in its contemporary phase, globalisation provides indigenous peoples with recourse to international law and economic opportunities to strengthen their positions vis-a-vis the state in their quest for specific and proportionate shares in national sovereignty. Indigenous/state political relationships are distinguished by state reliance on domestic laws and political influence to counter indigenous claims to shared sovereignty. International legal instruments, such as the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples have become sites of tension between domestic authority and international norms of justice in both Australia and New Zealand. At the same time, the Declaration’s uncertain applicability to Fiji deprives that country of a potential framework for mediating ideas about power and authority and their limits so that a relative, relational and shared sovereignty can be developed.Less
Globalisation rationalised the colonisation of indigenous territories. Its pursuit of capital expansion is sometimes allowed to override indigenous cultural imperatives. However, it is also true that in its contemporary phase, globalisation provides indigenous peoples with recourse to international law and economic opportunities to strengthen their positions vis-a-vis the state in their quest for specific and proportionate shares in national sovereignty. Indigenous/state political relationships are distinguished by state reliance on domestic laws and political influence to counter indigenous claims to shared sovereignty. International legal instruments, such as the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples have become sites of tension between domestic authority and international norms of justice in both Australia and New Zealand. At the same time, the Declaration’s uncertain applicability to Fiji deprives that country of a potential framework for mediating ideas about power and authority and their limits so that a relative, relational and shared sovereignty can be developed.
Glen Sean Coulthard
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816679645
- eISBN:
- 9781452948409
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679645.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter lays out the main argument developed in the remainder of the book: that the last forty years has witnessed the hegemonization of a liberal recognition-based approach to Indigenous ...
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This chapter lays out the main argument developed in the remainder of the book: that the last forty years has witnessed the hegemonization of a liberal recognition-based approach to Indigenous self-determination in Canada both theoretically and in practice.Less
This chapter lays out the main argument developed in the remainder of the book: that the last forty years has witnessed the hegemonization of a liberal recognition-based approach to Indigenous self-determination in Canada both theoretically and in practice.
Karleen Jones West
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- April 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190068844
- eISBN:
- 9780190068875
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190068844.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, Democratization
The analysis presented in this chapter indicates that indigenous voters are disproportionately targeted as clients in vote-buying schemes, which is why the distribution of patronage has become a ...
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The analysis presented in this chapter indicates that indigenous voters are disproportionately targeted as clients in vote-buying schemes, which is why the distribution of patronage has become a necessary vote-maximizing strategy for ethnic-party candidates to utilize to earn votes. This finding gives further credence to the argument that ethnic-party candidates must compete using the tactics employed by mainstream candidates to win votes. As such, it was unfair to expect that ethnic-party candidates could ever be more consistently policy-focused, given the expectations of patronage that indigenous constituents have during campaign season. To demonstrate the power of clientelism as a technique to attract indigenous supporters, this chapter analyzes AmericasBarometer survey data from fifteen countries across Latin America. The results show that not only are indigenous voters more likely to be targeted for clientelism, but ethnic-party supporters specifically are also more likely to be approached to sell their votes. These findings therefore provide evidence of the generalizability of the argument that ethnic-party candidates face strong incentives to engage in the clientelist behavior of mainstream parties in order to win votes across Latin America.Less
The analysis presented in this chapter indicates that indigenous voters are disproportionately targeted as clients in vote-buying schemes, which is why the distribution of patronage has become a necessary vote-maximizing strategy for ethnic-party candidates to utilize to earn votes. This finding gives further credence to the argument that ethnic-party candidates must compete using the tactics employed by mainstream candidates to win votes. As such, it was unfair to expect that ethnic-party candidates could ever be more consistently policy-focused, given the expectations of patronage that indigenous constituents have during campaign season. To demonstrate the power of clientelism as a technique to attract indigenous supporters, this chapter analyzes AmericasBarometer survey data from fifteen countries across Latin America. The results show that not only are indigenous voters more likely to be targeted for clientelism, but ethnic-party supporters specifically are also more likely to be approached to sell their votes. These findings therefore provide evidence of the generalizability of the argument that ethnic-party candidates face strong incentives to engage in the clientelist behavior of mainstream parties in order to win votes across Latin America.
Sarah Carter and Maria Nugent (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781784991401
- eISBN:
- 9781526115065
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784991401.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
Indigenous people in Britain’s settler colonies engaged Queen Victoria in their diplomacy and politics, and incorporated her into their intellectual and narrative traditions. These interpretations of ...
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Indigenous people in Britain’s settler colonies engaged Queen Victoria in their diplomacy and politics, and incorporated her into their intellectual and narrative traditions. These interpretations of Victoria have much to tell us about indigenous peoples’ experiences of and responses to British colonization, and they also make a significant contribution to historical and contemporary understandings of British imperial and colonial history. The essays in this volume, that focus on Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada, offer detailed studies from these settings, of the political, imaginative, diplomatic and intellectual uses of Queen Victoria by indigenous peoples. They also consider the ways in which the Crown’s representatives employed the figure of the monarch in their dealings with the people displaced by British colonization. The collection offers compelling examples of the traffic of ideas, interpretations and political strategies among and between indigenous people and colonial officials across the settler colonies. Together the chapters demonstrate the contributions that Indigenous peoples of the settler colonies made to British imperial culture and cultures of monarchy.Less
Indigenous people in Britain’s settler colonies engaged Queen Victoria in their diplomacy and politics, and incorporated her into their intellectual and narrative traditions. These interpretations of Victoria have much to tell us about indigenous peoples’ experiences of and responses to British colonization, and they also make a significant contribution to historical and contemporary understandings of British imperial and colonial history. The essays in this volume, that focus on Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada, offer detailed studies from these settings, of the political, imaginative, diplomatic and intellectual uses of Queen Victoria by indigenous peoples. They also consider the ways in which the Crown’s representatives employed the figure of the monarch in their dealings with the people displaced by British colonization. The collection offers compelling examples of the traffic of ideas, interpretations and political strategies among and between indigenous people and colonial officials across the settler colonies. Together the chapters demonstrate the contributions that Indigenous peoples of the settler colonies made to British imperial culture and cultures of monarchy.
Timothy Neale
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780824873110
- eISBN:
- 9780824875732
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824873110.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
Today, there is a shift in the representations of Northern Australia and its environments. While Indigenous stakeholders have come to the forefront of debates, and the existence of ‘natural values’ ...
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Today, there is a shift in the representations of Northern Australia and its environments. While Indigenous stakeholders have come to the forefront of debates, and the existence of ‘natural values’ and Indigenous ownership have become relatively uncontroversial, environmentalists and environmental regulation have been widely criticized. Chapter 2 surveys media coverage of the controversyin order to better understand these and other recent trends in environmental politics both nationally and internationally. In surveying media narratives, I show how the controversy provides an opportune moment to audit media coverage of Indigenous issues and its decisions regarding who was able to speak authoritatively for and about Northern Australia and its rivers. What remained consistent was the presentation of the region as both a remote and pristine environment and an essentially Indigenous domain, underdeveloped due to ‘meddling greenies’. If these were, as stakeholders largely agreed, ‘wild rivers,’ then what does their wildness now count for and for whom?Less
Today, there is a shift in the representations of Northern Australia and its environments. While Indigenous stakeholders have come to the forefront of debates, and the existence of ‘natural values’ and Indigenous ownership have become relatively uncontroversial, environmentalists and environmental regulation have been widely criticized. Chapter 2 surveys media coverage of the controversyin order to better understand these and other recent trends in environmental politics both nationally and internationally. In surveying media narratives, I show how the controversy provides an opportune moment to audit media coverage of Indigenous issues and its decisions regarding who was able to speak authoritatively for and about Northern Australia and its rivers. What remained consistent was the presentation of the region as both a remote and pristine environment and an essentially Indigenous domain, underdeveloped due to ‘meddling greenies’. If these were, as stakeholders largely agreed, ‘wild rivers,’ then what does their wildness now count for and for whom?
Glen Sean Coulthard
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816679645
- eISBN:
- 9781452948409
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679645.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
Chapter four critically explores the convergence of Indigenous recognition politics with the more recent transitional justice discourse of “reconciliation” that began to gain considerable attention ...
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Chapter four critically explores the convergence of Indigenous recognition politics with the more recent transitional justice discourse of “reconciliation” that began to gain considerable attention in Canada following the publication of the Report of Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) in 1996.Less
Chapter four critically explores the convergence of Indigenous recognition politics with the more recent transitional justice discourse of “reconciliation” that began to gain considerable attention in Canada following the publication of the Report of Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) in 1996.
Glen Sean Coulthard
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816679645
- eISBN:
- 9781452948409
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679645.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter provides a theoretical account of how the politics of recognition has come to serve the interests of settler colonial power in the ways that is has. This chapter serves as the ...
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This chapter provides a theoretical account of how the politics of recognition has come to serve the interests of settler colonial power in the ways that is has. This chapter serves as the theoretical backbone of the remainder of the text.Less
This chapter provides a theoretical account of how the politics of recognition has come to serve the interests of settler colonial power in the ways that is has. This chapter serves as the theoretical backbone of the remainder of the text.
Glen Sean Coulthard
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816679645
- eISBN:
- 9781452948409
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679645.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition is an interdisciplinary of work of critically engaged political theory that traverses the fields of political science and ...
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Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition is an interdisciplinary of work of critically engaged political theory that traverses the fields of political science and Indigenous studies. The arguments developed in the book draw critically from both Western and Indigenous traditions of political thought and action to intervene into contemporary debates about settler-colonization and Indigenous self-discrimination in Canada. The book challenges the now commonplace assumption that the colonial relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state can be “reconciled” via such a politics of recognition. It also explores glimpses of an alternative Indigenous politics. Drawing critically from Indigenous and non-Indigenous intellectual and activist traditions, the book explores a resurgent Indigenous politics that is less orientated around attaining an affirmative form of recognition and institutional accommodation by the colonial state and society, and more about critically revaluing, reconstructing and redeploying Indigenous cultural practices in ways that seek to prefigure radical alternative to the social relationships that continue to dispossess Indigenous peoples of their lands and self-determining authority.Less
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition is an interdisciplinary of work of critically engaged political theory that traverses the fields of political science and Indigenous studies. The arguments developed in the book draw critically from both Western and Indigenous traditions of political thought and action to intervene into contemporary debates about settler-colonization and Indigenous self-discrimination in Canada. The book challenges the now commonplace assumption that the colonial relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state can be “reconciled” via such a politics of recognition. It also explores glimpses of an alternative Indigenous politics. Drawing critically from Indigenous and non-Indigenous intellectual and activist traditions, the book explores a resurgent Indigenous politics that is less orientated around attaining an affirmative form of recognition and institutional accommodation by the colonial state and society, and more about critically revaluing, reconstructing and redeploying Indigenous cultural practices in ways that seek to prefigure radical alternative to the social relationships that continue to dispossess Indigenous peoples of their lands and self-determining authority.
Nēpia Mahuika
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- March 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780190681685
- eISBN:
- 9780190681715
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190681685.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
Oral history has often been politically styled a “democratic tool” apt in amplifying the voices of the previously silenced. This chapter unpacks these underlying political approaches and definitions ...
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Oral history has often been politically styled a “democratic tool” apt in amplifying the voices of the previously silenced. This chapter unpacks these underlying political approaches and definitions in oral history and tradition, and compares and contrasts these with an indigenous perspective on the politics at work within oral history as a field. The chapter explores how the politics of indigenous oral history are always concerned with an assertion of self-determination that is intimately connected to expressions of tribal identity. Examples, such as a tribal indigenous political reading of gender, are used to demonstrate the wider impact of the “Politics of Power” and the ways indigenous oral histories are driven and emboldened by the need to survive, resist, and decolonize our past and present.Less
Oral history has often been politically styled a “democratic tool” apt in amplifying the voices of the previously silenced. This chapter unpacks these underlying political approaches and definitions in oral history and tradition, and compares and contrasts these with an indigenous perspective on the politics at work within oral history as a field. The chapter explores how the politics of indigenous oral history are always concerned with an assertion of self-determination that is intimately connected to expressions of tribal identity. Examples, such as a tribal indigenous political reading of gender, are used to demonstrate the wider impact of the “Politics of Power” and the ways indigenous oral histories are driven and emboldened by the need to survive, resist, and decolonize our past and present.
Timothy Neale
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780824873110
- eISBN:
- 9780824875732
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824873110.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This book examines issues of environmentalism and indigeneity in Northern Australia through the controversy surrounding the Wild Rivers Act 2005 (Qld). Like much of the north, one terrain of the Act ...
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This book examines issues of environmentalism and indigeneity in Northern Australia through the controversy surrounding the Wild Rivers Act 2005 (Qld). Like much of the north, one terrain of the Act – the massive Cape York Peninsula – has long been constructed as a ‘wild’ space, whether as terra nullius, a zone of legal exception or a biodiverse wilderness region in need of conservation. The past two decades, however, have seen two major changes in the political and social composition of the region, the first being the legal recognition of geographically extensive Indigenous land rights and the creation of a corporate infrastructure to govern them. The second is that the peninsula has been the centre of national debates regarding the market integration and social normalisation of Indigenous people, becoming the locale for intensive reform of some ‘Indigenous’ policy. Ironically, the Queensland government’s own attempts to ‘settle’ land use through the Actbrought out the tensions within the region’s present political formation. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of how and why the controversy occurred and what it indicates about present imaginaries of the governance and potentiality of Indigenous lands and waters. It shows that historically embedded forms of ‘wildness’ continue to shape debates about Northern Australia’s future, debates in which economic and social development are often confused and conceptualised as beneficent transformations. Ultimately, Wild Articulations contends that close consideration of this event provides insights into the future dilemmas of development and conservation in remote Australia.Less
This book examines issues of environmentalism and indigeneity in Northern Australia through the controversy surrounding the Wild Rivers Act 2005 (Qld). Like much of the north, one terrain of the Act – the massive Cape York Peninsula – has long been constructed as a ‘wild’ space, whether as terra nullius, a zone of legal exception or a biodiverse wilderness region in need of conservation. The past two decades, however, have seen two major changes in the political and social composition of the region, the first being the legal recognition of geographically extensive Indigenous land rights and the creation of a corporate infrastructure to govern them. The second is that the peninsula has been the centre of national debates regarding the market integration and social normalisation of Indigenous people, becoming the locale for intensive reform of some ‘Indigenous’ policy. Ironically, the Queensland government’s own attempts to ‘settle’ land use through the Actbrought out the tensions within the region’s present political formation. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of how and why the controversy occurred and what it indicates about present imaginaries of the governance and potentiality of Indigenous lands and waters. It shows that historically embedded forms of ‘wildness’ continue to shape debates about Northern Australia’s future, debates in which economic and social development are often confused and conceptualised as beneficent transformations. Ultimately, Wild Articulations contends that close consideration of this event provides insights into the future dilemmas of development and conservation in remote Australia.
Glen Sean Coulthard
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816679645
- eISBN:
- 9781452948409
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679645.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter examines the history of the Dene Nation’s struggle for self-determination in the 1970s and 1980s.
This chapter examines the history of the Dene Nation’s struggle for self-determination in the 1970s and 1980s.
