In the way : indigenous peoples, life projects, and development / edited by Mario Blaser, Harvey A. Feit, and Glenn McRae.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blaser, Mario, 1966-

Feit, Harvey A.

McRae, Glenn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples.

Economic development.

Human rights.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 peop.

Contents:

Indigenous Peoples and Development Processes : New Terrains of Struggle / Mario Blaser, Harvey A. Feit and Glenn McRae

Life Projects : Indigenous Peoples' Agency and Development / Mario Blaser

Part I. Visions : Life Projects, Representations and Conflicts

Life Projects : Development Our Way / Bruno Barras

"Way of Life" or "Who Decides" : Development, Paraguayan Indigenism and the Yshiro People's Life Projects / Mario Blaser

Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Development : Toward Co-Existence / Deborah McGregor

James Bay Crees' Life Projects and Politics : Histories of Place, Animal Partners and Enduring Relationships / Harvey A. Feit

Grassroots Transnationalism and Life Projects of Vermonters in the Great Whale Campaign / Glenn McRae

"The People Had Discovered Their Own Approach to Life" : Politicizing Development Discourse / Wendy Russell

Part II. Strategies: States, Markets and Civil Society

Survival in the Context of Mega-Resource Development : Experiences of the James Bay Cree and the First Nations of Canada / Matthew Coon Come

The Importance of Working Together : Exclusions, Conflicts and Participation in James Bay, Quebec / Brian Craik

Defending a Common Home : Native/Non-Native Alliances against Mining Corporations in Wisconsin / Al Gedicks and Zoltan Grossman

Chilean Economic Expansion and Mega-Development Projects in Mapuche Territories / Aldisson Anguita Mariqueo

Hydroelectric Development on the Bio-Bio River, Chile : Anthropology and Human Rights Advocacy / Barbara Rose Johnston and Carmen Garcia-Downing

Part III. Invitations : Connections and Co-Existence

Revisiting Gandhi and Zapata : Motion of Global Capital, Geographies of Difference and the Formation of Ecological Ethnicities / Pramod Parajuli

A Dream of Democracy in the Russian Far East / Petra Rethmann

The "Risk Society" : Tradition, Ecological Order and Time-Space Acceleration / Peter Harries-Jones

Conflicting Discourses of Property, Governance and Development in the Indigenous North / Colin Scott

Resistance, Determination and Perseverance of the Lubicon Cree Women / Dawn Martin-Hill

Restoring our Relationship for the Future / Mary Arquette, Maxine Cole and the Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment

In Memoriam : Chief Harvey Longboat (1936-2001).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786610717255

9781350220720

1350220728

9781848137042

1848137044

9781552500040

1552500047

9781280717253

1280717254

9781842771938

1842771930

9781848131033

1848131038

OCLC:

69649562