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Global Indigenous Politics - A Subtle Revolution (Hardcover)
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Global Indigenous Politics - A Subtle Revolution (Hardcover)
Series: Worlding Beyond the West
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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. 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. 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 book asks: Why did movement need to
fight so hard to secure passage of a bare minimum standard on
Indigenous rights? Why is it that certain states are so threatened
by an emerging international Indigenous rights regime? How does the
emerging Indigenous rights regime change the international status
quo? 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. It is argued that
global Indigenous politics is a perspective of IR that, with the
recognition of Indigenous peoples' collective rights to land and
self-determination, complicates the structure of international
politics in new and important ways, challenging both Westphalian
notions of state sovereignty and the (neo-)liberal foundations of
states and the international human rights consensus. Qualitative
case studies of Canadian and New Zealand Indigenous rights, based
on original field research, analyse both the potential and the
limits of these challenges. This work will be of interest to
graduates and scholars in international relations, Indigenous
studies, international organizations, IR theory and social
movements.
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