Restoring Indigenous Self-Determination: Theoretical and Practical Approaches

Marc Woons

• Publisher: E-International Relations
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781910814031
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Indigenous peoples around the world find themselves locked in power struggles with dominant states and transnational actors who resist their claims to land, culture, political recognition and other key factors associated with the idea of national self-determination. In 2007, the importance of Indigenous self-determination alongside that of nation-states was significantly enhanced when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – suggesting that an important attitudinal shift might now be taking place internationally. Yet, as this volume's contributors suggest, much more work is needed in terms of understanding what Indigenous self-determination means in theory and how it is to be achieved in practice.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Self-Determination and State Definitions of Indigenous Peoples
• 2 Self-Determination as Anti-Extractivism: How Indigenous Resistance Challenges World Politics
• 3 Self-Determination and Indigenous Health: Is There a Connection?
• 4 Self-Determination as Self-Transformation
• 5 Knowledge, Technology, and the Pragmatic Dimensions of Self-Determination
• 6 Māori Self-determination and a Liberal Theory of Indigeneity
• 7 Restoring Indigenous Self-Determination through Relational Autonomy and Transnational Mediation
• 8 Implementing Indigenous Self-Determination: The Case of the Sámi in Norway
• 9 Revitalizing African Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Knowledge Production
• 10 China and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: The Case of Tibet
• 11 Tibetan Self-Determination: A Stark Choice for an Abandoned People
• 12 Self-Determination: A Perspective from Abya Yala
• Contributors
• Note on Indexing