1st Edition
The Colonial Politics of Hope Critical Junctures of Indigenous-State Relations
1 Hope on the horizon
2 Equivocal hope
3 Battlefields of recognition
4 Fickle contractuality
5 Colonialism in the grammar of hope
6 Conclusion
Biography
Marjo Lindroth is a university researcher in the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland, Finland.
Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen is a university lecturer and feminist scholar at the University of Lapland, Finland.
Lindroth’s and Sinevaara-Niskanen’s previous joint work includes the book Global Politics and its Violent Care for Indigeneity: Sequels to Colonialism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), which illustrates how the inclusion and recognition of indigeneity in global politics constitute a continuation of colonial practices. Their work has been published in journals such as International Political Sociology, Global Society, and Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourse.
“This book establishes ‘the politics of hope’ as a key concern both for scholars and activists. In setting out, for the first time, the global logic of governing through hope, the links to colonial and postcolonial hierarchies of power and dependency are made clear. Hope is about reproducing the present rather than transforming the future.”
- David Chandler, University of Westminster, UK
