Indigenous Diplomacies

J. Beier

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9781349377572, 9780230613072
• eBook ISBN: 9780230102279
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Globalisation
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This volume explores broad conceptual questions raised by the 'discovery' of indigenous peoples as increasingly important global political actors - questions made all the more urgent by the sudden recognition that indigenous diplomacies are not at all new, but merely newly noticed.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Indigenous Diplomacies as Indigenous Diplomacies
• 1 Forgetting, Remembering, and Finding Indigenous Peoples in International Relations
• 2 Communication/Excommunication: Transversal Indigenous Diplomacies in Global Politics
• 3 The Political Stakes of Indigenous Diplomacies: Questions of Difference
• 4 Indigenous Diplomacies before the Nation-State
• 5 A “Revolution within a Revolution”: Indigenous Women’s Diplomacies
• 6 Achievements of Indigenous Self-Determination: The Case of Sami Parliaments in Finland and Norway
• 7 Coming in from the Cold: Inuit Diplomacy and Global Citizenship
• 8 Between the Leader of Virtù and the Good Savage: Indigenous Struggles and Life Projects in the Amazon Basin
• 9 Aboriginal Diplomacy: The Queen Comes to Canada and Coyote Goes to London
• 10 Inuit Transnational Activism: Cooperation and Resistance in the Face of Global Change
• 11 Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit: Beginning an Indigenous-Settler Reconciliation Dialogue
• 12 Responding to a Deeply Bifurcated World: Indigenous Diplomacies in the Twenty-First Century
• Bibliography
• Index