Indigenous Peoples and Politics
Negotiations in the Indigenous World: Aboriginal Peoples and the Extractive Industry in Australia and Canada
1st Edition
By Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh
January 24, 2018
Negotiated agreements play a critical role in setting the conditions under which resource development occurs on Indigenous land. Our understanding of what determines the outcomes of negotiations between Indigenous peoples and commercial interests is very limited. With over two decades experience ...
Inventing Indigenous Knowledge: Archaeology, Rural Development and the Raised Field Rehabilitation Project in Bolivia
1st Edition
By Lynn Swartley
January 27, 2017
This volume provides a multi-sited and multivocalic investigation of the dynamic social, political and economic processes in the creation and implementation of an agricultural development project. The raised field rehabilitation project attempted to introduce a pre-Columbian agricultural method ...
Cultural Intermarriage in Southern Appalachia: Cherokee Elements in Four Selected Novels by Lee Smith
1st Edition
By Katerina Prajznerova
August 04, 2016
Examining four of Lee Smith's mountain novels from the point of view of cultural anthropology, this study show that fragments of the Cherokee heritage resonate in her work. These elements include connections with the Cherokee beliefs regarding medicinal plants and spirit animals, Cherokee stories ...
National Identity and the Conflict at Oka: Native Belonging and Myths of Postcolonial Nationhood in Canada
1st Edition
By Amelia Kalant
May 13, 2016
Through readings of literature, canonical history texts, studies of museum displays and media analysis, this work explores the historical formation of myths of Canadian national identity and then how these myths were challenged (and affirmed during the 1990 standoff at Oka. It draws upon history, ...
Storied Voices in Native American Texts: Harry Robinson, Thomas King, James Welch and Leslie Marmon Silko
1st Edition
By Blanca Schorcht
May 13, 2016
This work approaches Native American literature from within an interdisciplinary framework that complicates traditional notions of literary origins and canon. It situates the discussion of Native literatures in a Native American context, suggesting that contemporary Native American writing has its ...
The Globalization of Contentious Politics: The Amazonian Indigenous Rights Movement
1st Edition
By Pamela Martin
May 13, 2016
This dissertation argues that Amazonian indigenous peoples organized via transnational networks due to the domestic blockages presented to them in their respective countires. Due to these blockages and the growing number of transnational political opportunity structures, such as national and ...
The Present Politics of the Past: Indigenous Legal Activism and Resistance to (Neo)Liberal Governmentality
1st Edition
By Seán Patrick Eudaily
August 14, 2015
This work applies Jacques Derrida's framework of "spectropolitics" to (post)coloniality in order to investigate the emergence of indigenous peoples' movements, advances a poststructural approach to the analysis of liberal politics based upon the historical sociology of Michel Foucault, and ...
Politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Native American Literature: Across Every Border
1st Edition
By Matthew Herman
April 23, 2015
Over the last twenty years, Native American literary studies has taken a sharp political turn. In this book, Matthew Herman provides the historical framework for this shift and examines the key moments in the movement away from cultural analyses toward more politically inflected and motivated ...
Native American and Chicano/a Literature of the American Southwest: Intersections of Indigenous Literatures
1st Edition
By Christina M. Hebebrand
August 12, 2014
This book studies Native American and Chicano/a writers of the American Southwest as a coherent cultural group with common features and distinct efforts to deal with and to resist the dominant Euro-American culture....
The State and Indigenous Movements
1st Edition
By Keri E. Iyall Smith
March 21, 2013
Using the comparative historical method, this book looks at the experience of indigenous peoples, specifically the Native Hawaiians, showing how a nation can express culture and citizenship while seeking ways to attain greater sovereignty over territory, culture, and politics....
The State, Removal and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, 1620-2000
1st Edition
By Claudia Haake
March 21, 2013
This book investigates the forced migration of the Delawares in the United States and the Yaquis in Mexico, focusing primarily on the impact removal from tribal lands had on the (ethnic) identity of these two indigenous societies. It analyzes Native responses to colonial and state policies to ...
Indigenous Nations and Modern States: The Political Emergence of Nations Challenging State Power
1st Edition
By Rudolph C. Ryser
January 14, 2013
Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives with resilience and determination. They have done so generation after generation. These are peoples who make up bedrock nations throughout the world in whose territories the United Nations says 80 ...