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Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous Peoples have faced globalization and its pressures on autonomy for millennia. These pressures intensified greatly during the European age of imperialism when Indigenous Peoples' lands were taken from them and their ways of life were disparaged as primitive or savage. They see globalization as a long-standing cruel process that destroys autonomy. More recently, they have also sought to use the linkages possible under globalization and the institutions created with it, like the United Nations, to reclaim autonomy.

Research Summaries

Globalism, Primitive Accumulation and Nishnawbe-Aski Territory: The Strategic Denial of Place-Based Community

Wendy Russell

Institutions of Arctic Ordering: The Cases of Greenland and Nunavut

Natalia Loukacheva

Twentieth-century Transformtions of East Cree Spirituality and Autonomy

Richard J. "Dick" Preston

Ayllu: Decolonial Critical Thinking and An(Other) Autonomy

Marcelo Fern??ndez Osco

Negotiating Concepts of Land: The Eastern James Bay Cree, Colonialism, and Resource Exploitation

Susan M. Preston

The Globalization of International Law, Indigenous Identity, and the "New Imperialism"

A. Claire Cutler

The International Order of Hope: Zapatismo and the Fourth World War

Alex Khasnabish

Making Alternatives Visible: The Meaning of Autonomy for the Mapuche of Cholchol (Ngulumapu, Chile)

Pablo Marim??n Quemenado

Global Linguistics, Mayan Languages, and the Cultivation of Autonomy

Erich Fox Tree

Indigenous Perspectives on Globalization: Self-Determination Through Autonomous Media Creation

Rebeka Tabobondung

Global Activism and Changing Identities: Interconnecting the Global and the Local. Examples from the Grand Council of the Crees and the Saami Council

Kristina Maud Bergeron

"Doing Things our Way": The "State of Nature" in Hobbes and Locke, Land Appropriation, and the Inclusive Autonomies of Indigenous Peoples

Nigel Joseph

Twentieth Century Transformations of Native Identity, Citizenship, Power, and Authority

Richard J. "Dick" Preston

Competing or Relational Autonomies? Globalization, Property, and Friction over Land Rights

Eva Mackey

Position Papers

Research Articles

The Politics of Form and Alternative Autonomies: Indigenous Women, Subsistence Economies and the Gift Paradigm

Rauna Kuokkanen

On Autonomy and Law

Natalia Loukacheva

South-North Dialogue

Studying Globalization in Canada: Some Keywords

Y. Rachel Zhou and William D. Coleman

Globalizing the Research Imagination through Building South-North Dialogues: A Southern Perspective on the Politics of Cultural Globalization in English Language Use

Koo Yew Lie

Globalization and the Development Dilemma of the South

Sumita Sen

Anthropophagy and Globalization in Brazil

Clarissa Menezes Jord??o

UBC Press Volume

Globalization, Autonomy and Indigenous Peoples

This volume explores the ways in which a particular perspective emerging from an involvement with Indigenous issues may inform the more general ways in which globalization and autonomy are theorized and conceived. It examines political philosophies, networks and connections, and the ways that images and constructions of Indigenous Peoples and politics are circulated, appropriated, and reshaped in a variety of contexts.

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