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Indigenous peoples today are enmeshed in the expanding modern
economy, subject to the pressures of both market and government.
This book takes indigenous peoples as actors, not victims, as its
starting point in analysing this interaction. It assembles a rich
diversity of statements, case studies and wider thematic
explorations, primarily from North America, and particularly the
Cree, the Haudenausaunee (Iroquois) and Chippewa-Ojibwe peoples who
straddle the US/Canadian border, but also from South America and
the former Soviet Union. It explores the complex relationships
between indigenous peoples, civil society, and the environment. It
shows how the boundaries between indigenous peoples' organizations,
civil society, the state, markets, development and the environment
are ambiguous and constantly changing. These complexities create
both opportunities and threats for local agency. People resist or
react to the pressures of market and state, while sustaining 'life
projects' of their own, embodying their own local history, visions
and strategies.
Authored as a result of a remarkable collaboration between
indigenous people's own leaders, other social activists and
scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this volume explores
what is happening today to indigenous peoples as they are enmeshed,
almost inevitably, in the remorseless expansion of the modern
economy and development, at the behest of the pressures of the
market-place and government. It is particularly timely, given the
rise in criticism of free market capitalism generally, as well as
of development. The volume seeks to capture the complex,
power-laden, often contradictory features of indigenous agency and
relationships. It shows how peoples do not just resist or react to
the pressures of market and state, but also initiate and sustain
"life projects" of their own which embody local history and
incorporate plans to improve their social and economic ways of
living.
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