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The Americas in Early Modern Political Theory - States of Nature and Aboriginality (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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The Americas in Early Modern Political Theory - States of Nature and Aboriginality (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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This book examines early modern social contract theories within
European representations of the Americas in the 16th and 17th
century. Despite addressing the Americas only marginally, social
contract theories transformed American social imaginaries prevalent
at the time into Aboriginality, allowing for the emergence of the
idea of civilization and the possibility for diverse discourses of
Aboriginalism leading to excluding and discriminatory forms of
subjectivity, citizenship, and politics. What appears then is a
form of Aboriginalism pitting the American/Aboriginal other against
the nascent idea of civilization. The legacy of this political
construction of difference is essential to contemporary politics in
settler societies. The author shows the intellectual processes
behind this assignation and its role in modern political theory,
still bearing consequences today. The way one conceives of
citizenship and sovereignty underlies some of the difficulties
settler societies have in accommodating Indigenous claims for
recognition and self-government.
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