This work will be of interest to graduates and scholars in international relations, Indigenous studies, international organizations, IR theory and social movements.State resistance to the subtle revolution of global Indigenous politicsPolitics & International Relations, Social SciencesLightfoot, S. (2016).
Buy the Hardcover Book Global Indigenous Politics: A Subtle Revolution by Sheryl Lightfoot at Indigo.ca, Canada's largest bookstore. While Indigenous peoples are often dismissed as marginal non-state actors, this book argues that far from insignificant, global Indigenous This book examines how Indigenous peoples' rights and Indigenous rights movements represent an important and often overlooked shift in international politics - a shift that powerful states are actively resisting in a multitude of ways. May 10th 2016 Dr. Sheryl Lightfoot’s new book Global Indigenous Politics: A Subtle Revolution from Routledge Press hit shelves in May 2016.A paperback version will be published January 25, 2018! We may have to stay home and stay still, but through t...This book examines how Indigenous peoples' rights and Indigenous rights movements represent an important and often overlooked shift in international politics - a shift that powerful states are actively resisting in a multitude of ways. Few would argue that the post-war process of decolonisation is incomplete and inadequate. This book examines how Indigenous peoples’ rights and Indigenous rights movements represent an important and often overlooked shift in international politics - a shift that powerful states are actively resisting in a multitude of ways. Although it doesn't hand Indigenous peoples a right to independence and to set up their own states, it decisively rejects the doctrine of discovery, and offers a model for new concepts of sovereignty that don't have to be connected necessarily to a specific territory, and ways of imagining over-lapping or shared sovereignty with nation states. European settler states in North and South America and Australasia have had their occupation and expropriation of Indigenous peoples ratified by the international legal order. The questions are addressed by exploring how Indigenous politics at the global level compels a new direction of thought in IR by challenging some of its fundamental tenets. We’d love your help. Start by marking “Global Indigenous Politics: A Subtle Revolution” as Want to Read:
Published Be the first to ask a question about Global Indigenous Politics Her book, Global Indigenous Politics: A Subtle Revolution, was published in May 2016 by Routledge Press in their “Worlding Beyond the West” critical international relations book series.
Few would argue that the post-war process of decolonisation is incomplete and inadequate. After thirty years of intense effort, the transnational Indigenous rights movement achieved passage of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in September 2007.This is mainly aimed at people with a professional interest in Indigenous peoples, but it quite convincingly makes a case that has major ramifications for how modern states are governed, which should be of interest to anyone who follows political science. Sheryl is currently engaged in a SSHRC-funded project, “The Politics of State Apologies to Indigenous Peoples,” a major multi-national comparative study of state apologies to Indigenous peoples. Global Indigenous Politics. While Indigenous peoples are often dismissed as marginal non-state actors, this book argues that far from insignificant, global Indigenous politics is potentially forging major changes in the international system, as the implementation of Indigenous peoples’ rights requires a complete re-thinking and re-ordering of sovereignty, territoriality, liberalism, and human rights. 1138946680 While Indigenous peoples are often dismissed as marginal non-state actors, this book argues that far from insignificant, global Indigenous politics is potentially forging major changes in the international system, as the implementation of Indigenous peoples' rights requires a complete re-thinking and re-ordering of sovereignty, territoriality, liberalism, and human rights.