Theorizing Native studies / edited by Audra Simpson and Andrea Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simpson, Audra, 1969-

Smith, Andrea, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.

Indians of North America--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

viii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.

Summary:

This important collection makes a compelling argument for the importance of theory in Native studies. Within the field, there has been understandable suspicion of theory stemming both from concerns about urgent political issues needing to take precedence over theoretical speculations and from hostility toward theory as an inherently Western, imperialist epistemology. The editors of Theorizing Native Studies take these concerns as the ground for recasting theoretical endeavors as attempts to identify the larger institutional and political structures that enable racism, inequities, and the displacement of indigenous peoples. They emphasize the need for Native people to be recognized as legitimate theorists and for the theoretical work happening outside the academy, in Native activist groups and communities, to be acknowledged. Many of the essays demonstrate how Native studies can productively engage with others seeking to dismantle and decolonize the settler state, including scholars putting theory to use in critical ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, and postcolonial studies. Taken together, the essays demonstrate how theory can serve as a decolonizing practice with analytical heft. Book jacket.

Contents:

There is a river in me: theory from life / Dian Million

The ancestors we get to choose: white influences I won't deny / Teresia Teaiwa

From wards of the State to subjects of recognition? Marx, indigenous peoples, and the politics of dispossession in Denendeh / Glen Coulthard

Contract and usurpation: enfranchisement and racial governance in settler-colonial contexts / Robert Nichols

"In this separation": the noncorrespondence of Joseph Johnson / Christopher Bracken

Making peoples into populations: the racial limits of tribal sovereignty / Mark Rifkin

Indigenous transnationalism and the AIDS pandemic: challenging settler colonialism within global health governance / Scott Lauria Morgensen

Native studies at the horizon of death: theorizing ethnographic entrapment and settler self-reflexivity / Andrea Smith

Disrupting a settler-colonial grammar of place: the visual memoir of Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie / Mishuana R. Goeman

The devil in the details: controverting an American Indian conversion narrative / Vera B. Palmer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822356677

0822356678

9780822356790

0822356791

OCLC:

860755338