Indigenous Peoples and Politics

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1. The Present Politics of the Past

   Indigenous Legal Activism and Resistance to (Neo)Liberal Governmentality

   By Seán Patrick Eudaily

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   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...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. The State and Indigenous Movements

   By Keri E. Iyall Smith

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   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....

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. The State, Removal and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, 1620-2000

   By Claudia Haake

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   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...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
4. On the Streets and in the State House

   American Indian and Hispanic Women and Environmental Policymaking in New Mexico

   By Diane-Michele Prindeville

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf and the Creation of Nez Perce History in the Pacific Northwest

   By Robert Ross McCoy

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
6. Spiraling Webs of Relation

   Movements Toward an Indigenist Criticism

   By Joanne DiNova

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   This work builds on indigenous theory as evident in the writing of Willie Ermine, Gregory Cajete, Craig Womack, Jace Weaver, Laurie Anne Whitt, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Voila Cordova, Dennis McPherson, and others. It works towards a criticism that, in accordance with the precepts of such theory, is...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. Indigenous Nations and Modern States

   The Political Emergence of Nations Challenging State Power

   By Rudolph C. Ryser

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   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...

   Published June 10th 2012 by Routledge
8. Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology

   By Raymond Pierotti

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   Indigenous ways of understanding and interacting with the natural world are characterized as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which derives from emphasizing relationships and connections among species. This book examines TEK and its strengths in relation to Western ecological knowledge and...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
9. Indigeneity in the Courtroom

   Law, Culture, and the Production of Difference in North American Courts

   By Jennifer A. Hamilton

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   The central question of this book is when and how does indigeneity in its various iterations – cultural, social, political, economic, even genetic – matter in a legal sense? Indigeneity in the Courtroom focuses on the legal deployment of indigenous difference in US and Canadian courts in the late&...

   Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Ecological Native

    Indigenous Peoples' Movements and Eco-Governmentality in Columbia

    By Astrid Ulloa

    Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

    This text analyzes indigenous peoples' processes of identity construction as ecological natives. It opens space for reconstructing all the different networks, conditions of emergence, and implications (political, cultural, social and economic) of one specific event: the consolidation of the...

    Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge