Scales of governance and indigenous peoples / Edited by Irène Bellier, Jennifer Hays.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bellier, Irène, editor.

Hays, Jennifer, editor.

Series:

Indigenous peoples and the law (Routledge (Firm))

Indigenous peoples and the law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Civil rights.

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 293 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the complicated power relations surrounding the recognition and implementation of Indigenous Peoples' rights at multiple scales. The adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007 was heralded as the beginning of a new era for Indigenous Peoples' participation in global governance bodies, as well as for the realization of their rights - in particular the right to self-determination. These rights are defined and agreed upon internationally, but must be enacted at regional, national and local scales. Can the global movement to promote Indigenous Peoples' rights change the experience of communities at the local level? Or are the concepts that it mobilizes, around rights and political tools, essentially a discourse circulating internationally, relatively disconnected from practical situations? To what extent are the categories and processes associated with 'Indigenous Peoples' an extension of colonial categories and processes, and to what extent to they challenge existing norms and structures? This collection draws together the work of anthropologists, political scientists and legal scholars to address such questions. Examining the legal, historical, political, economic and cultural dimensions of the Indigenous Peoples' rights movement, at global, regional, national and local levels, the chapters present a series of case studies that reveal the complex power relations that inform the ongoing struggles of Indigenous Peoples to secure their human rights. The book will be of interest to social scientists and legal scholars studying indigenous peoples' rights, and international human rights movements in general"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Indigenous peoples' rights: global circulation, colonial heritage, and resistance

PART I: Circulating between the scales: the global, the national, and the local

1 Participation of indigenous peoples in issues affecting them: a matter of negotiation at the United Nations

2 Defining the terms of indigenous peoples' rights in Namibia: the role of the International Labor Organization

3 Indigenous peoples' rights and policies: the role of the UN in Mexico

4 Traversing the scales of rights: interventions from indigenous peoples of Cambodia at the United Nations

PART II: Colonial legacies

5 Colonial legacy and public policy: from primitive to indigenous in French Guiana (1930-present)

6 Decoloniality put to the test: the Plurinational State of Bolivia

7 Leveraging international power: private property and the human rights of indigenous peoples in Canada

8 The logic of elimination in (post-)colonial law: indigenous entanglements in the Kimberley region of Australia

PART III: Resisting processes of invisibilization

9 Criminalization and judicialization of indigenous peoples' rights in Chile: current dynamics

10 Burning a home that "doesn't exist," arresting people who "aren't there": a critique of eviction-based conservation and the Sengwer of Embobut forest, Kenya

11 Redefining university research enterprises: partnership and collaboration in Laxyuup Gitxaa?a

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-37149-6

1-315-67188-3

1-317-37150-X

9781315671888

OCLC:

1108787527