ISBN:
1842771922
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1842771930
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 362 p)
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maps
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Saint-Lazare, Quebec Gibson Library Connections 2008 Canadian electronic library. Books collection Electronic document; Available by subscription via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version In the Way of Development : Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization
Keywords:
Postcolonialism
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Economic development
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Human rights
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Indigenous peoples
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Economic development
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Human rights
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Indigenous peoples
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Postcolonialism
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Indigenous Peoples and Development Processes: New Terrains of Struggle; 2 Life Projects: Indigenous Peoples' Agency and Development; 3 Life Projects: Development Our Way; 4 'Way of Life' or 'Who Decides': Development, Paraguayan Indigenism and the Yshiro People's Life Projects; 5 Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Development: Towards Coexistence; 6 James Bay Crees' Life Projects and Politics: Histories of Place, Animal Partners and Enduring Relationships; 7 Grassroots Transnationalism and Life Projects of Vermonters in the Great Whale Campaign
Description / Table of Contents:
8 'The People Had Discovered Their Own Approach to Life': Politicizing Development Discourse9 Survival in the Context of Mega-Resource Development: Experiences of the James Bay Crees and the First Nations of Canada; 10 The Importance of Working Together: Exclusions, Conflicts and Participation in James Bay, Quebec; 11 Defending a Common Home: Native/non-Native Alliances against Mining Corporations in Wisconsin; 12 Chilean Economic Expansion and Mega-development Projects in Mapuche Territories; 13 Hydroelectric Development on the Bio-Bio River, Chile: Anthropology and Human Rights Advocacy
Description / Table of Contents:
14 Revisiting Gandhi and Zapata: Motion of Global Capital, Geographies of Difference and the Formation of Ecological Ethnicities15 A Dream of Democracy in the Russian Far East; 16 The 'Risk Society': Tradition, Ecological Order and Time-Space Acceleration; 17 Conflicting Discourses of Property, Governance and Development in the Indigenous North; 18 Resistance, Determination and Perseverance of the Lubicon Cree Women; 19 Restoring Our Relationships for the Future; 20 In Memoriam; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic document; Available by subscription via World Wide Web
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