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Indigenous Struggle (indigenous + struggle)

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Selected Abstracts

Book Reviews: Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas by Shannon Speed

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2010
Mark Goodale
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Indigenous Struggles and Contested Identities in Argentina Histories of Invisibilization and Reemergence

JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 3 2003
Gastón Gordillo
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Australian Indigenous Studies: A Question of Discipline

THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 3 2006
Martin Nakata
This paper is an early discussion of the ways we are approaching Indigenous Studies in Australian Universities. The focus is on how disciplinary and scholarly issues within Indigenous Studies can be interrogated and yet retain the necessary cohesion and solidarity so important to the Indigenous struggle. The paper contrasts Indigenous Studies pursued by Indigenous scholars to other disciplinary perspectives in the academy. Categories such as the Indigenous community and Indigenous knowledge are problematised, not to dissolve them, but to explore productive avenues. I identify one of the problems that Indigenous studies faces as resisting the tendency to perpetuate an enclave within the academy whose purpose is to reflect back an impoverished and codified representation of Indigenous culture to the communities that are its source. On the other hand, there is danger also in the necessary engagement with other disciplines on their own terms. My suggestion is that we see ourselves mapping our understanding of our particular Indigenous experiences upon a terrain intersected by the pathways, both of other Indigenous experiences, and of the non-Indigenous academic disciplines. My intention is to stimulate some thought among Indigenous academics and scholars about the future possibilities of Australian Indigenous Studies as a field of endeavour. [source]

Progressive spaces of neoliberalism in Aotearoa: A genealogy and critique

ASIA PACIFIC VIEWPOINT, Issue 2 2009
Maria Bargh
Abstract In this article, we will argue that any investigation of the ,progressive spaces of neoliberalism' needs to maintain a critical stance on the neoliberal project. In particular, we suggest that it is important to see the ways ,progressive spaces of neoliberalism' are troubled by discourses of colonisation which in turn are themselves disrupted by genealogies of Indigenous struggles. Spaces of neoliberalism are embedded in discourses of colonisation, as space is ultimately grounded in somewhere, in a ,place'. In Aotearoa, the discourses of colonisation and place are in turn entangled with a genealogy of Maori struggles to maintain and create political, economic and social structures and frameworks. These struggles are also productive, and have the potential to encourage, diverse political economies of production, trade and enterprise distinct from neoliberalism, its progressive spaces, and colonisation. We will investigate two cases to highlight that the ,messy actualities' of neoliberalism cannot be extracted from the genealogy of colonisation. Any attempts to start an analysis of progressive space as located in a neutral ,now and here' are therefore problematic. [source]

Tribal synthesis: Piros, Mansos, and Tiwas through history

THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, Issue 2 2006
Howard Campbell
This article critically examines recent anthropological theorizing about indigenous tribalism using ethnographic and historical data on the Piro-Manso-Tiwa Indian tribe of New Mexico. Debates about constructionism, neo-tribal capitalism, and proprietary approaches to culture provide valuable insights into recent indigenous cultural claims and political struggles, but also have serious limitations. The approach taken in the article, ,tribal synthesis', emphasizes process, agency, interdependence, and changing political and cultural repertoires of native peoples who seek survival amidst political domination and internal conflict. Such an approach can apply the best of recent critical theory in an advocacy anthropology that supports indigenous struggles. [source]