ISBN:
9780203139882
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9780415808538
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128360521X
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9781283605212
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9781136494475
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 298 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Indigenous Peoples and Politics
Series Statement:
Indigenous Peoples and Politics Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Indigenous Nations and the Modern State : The Political Emergence of Nations Challenging State Power
DDC:
323.11
Keywords:
Indigenous peoples Government relations
;
Indigenous peoples Politics and government
;
Indigenous peoples ; Government relations
;
Indigenous peoples ; Politics and government
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-288) and index
Abstract:
〈P〉Rudolph C. Ryser reveals in documentary detail how since the 1970s indigenous peoples politically formed governing authorities over peoples, territories and resources raising important questions and offering new solutions to profound challenges to human life.〈/P〉
Description / Table of Contents:
INDIGENOUS NATIONS AND MODERN STATES The Political Emergence of Nations Challenging State Power; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Where We Are Standing Decides Our Point of View; Structure of the Volume; 1 Emerging Modern Nations; Issues of Substance: Peoples, Territory and Culture; "Internationalizing" the Standing of Nations; The Current Political Order: Modern System of States; The Breakdown of States; Reordering the Political Landscape; Re-emerging Nations and Collapsing States; Politics by Another Means; Last Thoughts; 2 Fourth World Geopolitics
Description / Table of Contents:
A General Theory of International RelationsBedrock Nations Persist; Where Nations Step In; Fourth World Diplomacy; Last Thoughts; 3 Four Nations and the U.S.A.; Obstacles to Indian Self-Government; Major Crimes Act of 1885; The Plenary Power of Congress; The Long Path to Restoring Self-Government; Preliminary Discussions of 1987; The Tribal Self-Governance Demonstration Project; The 20-year Self-Government Trial; Last Thoughts; 4 First Nations and Canada; Canada's "White Paper"; Organizing Locally and Internationally; Organizing From the Ground Up; The Constitution Express; Last Thoughts
Description / Table of Contents:
5 The Laboratory of Internal Political ChangeRealigning Global Relations; Options for Fourth World Nations' Political Status; What do the Political Status Forms Mean?; Independent Nation-State; Integrated Nation; Autonomous Nation; Last Thoughts; 6 The Laboratory of External Political Change; Associated Nation; Independently Federated Nation; Independent Nation-State; Last Thoughts; 7 Fourth World Wars in the Shadows; Methods for Studying Fourth World Wars; What Are the Roots of War Among Fourth World Nations?; Where Are the Fourth World Wars?; Culture, Land and Status
Description / Table of Contents:
Nations Thrust Into Europe's Concept of a StateLast Thoughts; 8 Dispatches from the Fourth World; Indigenous Nations Must Ratify Genocide Conventions!; Russia's "Recollapse" - Chechenya's Independence: The Lesson of Somalia; English Speaking Quartet Opposes UN Declaration; Now There Is a UN Declaration on Indigenous Peoples' Rights; Tribal Self-Government and Taiwan's UN Bid; The Children of Biafra Proclaim Independence - Again; Walloons and Flemish May Go On Their Own; Mestizo v. Indígena; New International Security Structures for Nations and for States; Hard Choices and Climate Change
Description / Table of Contents:
The Choice: Fuel v. Food?Food Riots, Climate Change, It's the Economy, Stupid; Climate Refugees Shock Demands New Action; Last Thoughts; 9 The Global Movement of Nations; From "Local" to "Global"; Colonized to Recolonization - Nations and States on the Same Soil; The International Realm; The UN Declaration on Indigenous Peoples' Rights Debate and the ILO; The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; International Obligation Denied; Right of Self-Determination in the United States; International Right to Self-Determination; Organizing the International Indigenous Peoples' Agenda
Description / Table of Contents:
Last Thoughts
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-288) and index
,
Available via World Wide Web
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