Global Politics and Its Violent Care for Indigeneity: Sequels to Colonialism

ISBN-13: 9783319609812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 152 str.

Marjo Lindroth; Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen

Opis

This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature. Examining the inclusion of indigenous peoples in the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Arctic Council, the authors demonstrate how seemingly benevolent practices of international political and legal recognition are tantamount to colonialism, the historical wrong they purport to redress. By unveiling the ways in which contemporary neoliberal politics commissions a certain type of indigenous subject--one distinguished by resilience in particular--the book offers a pioneering account of how international politics has tightened its grip on indigeneity.

Spis treści

1. At home in international politics 

The promise of progress

Sites for indigeneity in international politics

Sketching global indigeneity

The lingering traces of colonialism

The biopolitical present

2. Excluded in the past, celebrated in the present

Making international politics ‘better’

The desire to make amends - but some things cannot be ‘fixed’

Deceitful inclusion

Partners in crime

Policing indigeneity

3. Vulnerable yet adaptive: Indigeneity in the making

Qualifications for entry 

Bound to the environment

Vulnerability validates

Adaptation glorifies

Pining for peculiarity

Smothered by care

4. The neoliberal embrace of resilient indigeneity

The quest for resilience

Indigenising resilience

At the mercy of its conditions

Diluting the political

5. Modes of love 

Biopolitical love

‘I see you’

‘I recognise your needs’

‘I want your best, so bear with me’

Eternally in-between

6. Conclusions

Debunking the myth of progress

Indigeneity on-demand

(In)sincerely yours

Politics of hope

Kill your darlings?

O autorze

Marjo Lindroth is Researcher in the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, Finland.

Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen is Researcher in Gender Studies at the University of Lapland, Finland.