Restoring Indigenous Self-Determination: Theoretical and Practical Approaches
Edited by Marc Woons
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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 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
– Jeff Corntassel
Introduction
– Marc Woons
Self-Determination and State Definitions of Indigenous Peoples
– Ravi De Costa
Self-Determination as Anti-Extractivism: How Indigenous Resistance Challenges World Politics
– Manuela L. Picq
Self-Determination and Indigenous Health: Is There a Connection?
– Michael Murphy
Self-Determination as Self-Transformation
– Tim Rowse
Knowledge, Technology, and the Pragmatic Dimensions of Self-Determination
– Marisa Elena Duarte
Māori Self-Determination and a Liberal Theory of Indigeneity
– Dominic O’Sullivan
Restoring Indigenous Self-Determination Through Relational Autonomy and Transnational Mediation
– Roderic Pitty
Implementing Indigenous Self-Determination: The Case of the Sámi In Norway
– Else Grete Broderstad
Revitalizing African Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Knowledge Production
– Hassan O. Kaya
China and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: The Case of Tibet
– Michael Davis
Tibetan Self-Determination: A Stark Choice for an Abandoned People
– Rob Dickinson
Self-Determination: A Perspective from Abya Yala
– Emilio Del Valle Escalante