The Colonial Politics of Hope: Critical Junctures of Indigenous-State Relations

ISBN-13: 9780367755669 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 138 str.

Marjo Lindroth; Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen

Opis

Through analyses of cases in Australia, Finland, Greenland and elsewhere, the book illuminates how states appropriate hope as a means to stall and circumscribe political processes of recognising the rights of indigenous peoples.

Recenzje

"This book establishes 'the politics of hope' as a key concern both for scholars and activists. In setting out, for the first time, the global logic of governing through hope, the links to colonial and postcolonial hierarchies of power and dependency are made clear. Hope is about reproducing the present rather than transforming the future."

- David Chandler, University of Westminster, UK

Spis treści

1 Hope on the horizon  2 Equivocal hope  3 Battlefields of recognition  4 Fickle contractuality  5 Colonialism in the grammar of hope  6 Conclusion