Overview
- Draws on critical scholarship in biopolitics, governmentality, and neoliberalism
- Contributes to the current debate on indigenous issues within academia and the international community
- Represents a unique confluence of salient lines of inquiry, bringing together questions of international politics, indigeneity, colonialism and rights
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This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature. Examining the inclusion of indigenous peoples in the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Arctic Council, the authors demonstrate how seemingly benevolent practices of international political and legal recognition are tantamount to colonialism, the historical wrong they purport to redress. By unveiling the ways in which contemporary neoliberal politics commissions a certain type of indigenous subject—one distinguished by resilience in particular—the book offers a pioneering account of how international politics has tightened its grip on indigeneity.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Reviews
“Lindroth and Sinevaara-Niskanen’s comprehensive examination of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Arctic Council reveals a politics of inclusion premised on fantasized constructions of indigeneity by state and global actors. This timely and innovative work exposes contemporary myths of progress for indigenous peoples when operating within human rights regimes and the insincerity of global and regional forums for creating spaces of meaningful change amidst ongoing colonization.” (Jeff Corntassel, University of Victoria)
“This important book challenges the current celebration of indigeneity by looking at how this works through neoliberal ways of understanding the subject. It shows how arguments about resilience and adaptability actually undermine the creative agency of the indigenous subject while encouraging the view that vulnerability and uncertainty are inevitable. As such, the book provides a valuable resource in challenging dominant ways of thinkingthat appear to offer hope, while actually encouraging resignation.” (Jonathan Joseph, The University of Sheffield)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Marjo Lindroth is Researcher in the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, Finland.
Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen is Researcher in Gender Studies at the University of Lapland, Finland.
Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen is Researcher in Gender Studies at the University of Lapland, Finland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Politics and Its Violent Care for Indigeneity
Book Subtitle: Sequels to Colonialism
Authors: Marjo Lindroth, Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60982-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60981-2Published: 30 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86976-6Published: 30 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60982-9Published: 15 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 152
Topics: Comparative Politics, Political Communication, International Organization, Public Policy, Imperialism and Colonialism, Social Policy