ISBN:
978-0-8223-5667-7
,
978-0-8223-5679-0
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 337 S.
,
Ill.
DDC:
970.004/97
Keywords:
Nordamerika Indianer, Nordamerika
;
Ethnizität
;
Politik
;
Indigenität
;
Theorie
;
Dekolonisation
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of 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.
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