Description
Book SynopsisThis book looks at how indigenous peoples in various contexts have thought about, and responded to, the pressures that globalization has on their cultural, political, and geographical autonomy.
Table of ContentsPreface
Part 1: Introduction
1 Reconfiguring the Web of Life: Indigenous Peoples, Relationality, and Globalization / Mario Blaser, Ravi de Costa, Deborah McGregor, and William D. Coleman
2 Ayllu: Decolonial Critical Thinking and (An)other Autonomy / Marcelo Fernández Osco
Part 2: Emergences
3 Neoliberal Governance and James Bay Cree Governance: Negotiated Agreements, Oppositional Struggles, and Co-Governance / Harvey A. Feit
4 Global Linguistics, Mayan Languages, and the Cultivation of Autonomy / Erich Fox Tree
5 Global Activism and Changing Identities: Interconnecting the Global and the Local – The Grand Council of the Crees and the Saami Council / Kristina Maud Bergeron
6 Indigenous Perspectives on Globalization: Self-Determination through Autonomous Media Creation / Rebeka Tabobondung
7 Reconfiguring Mare Nullius: Torres Strait Islanders, Indigenous Sea Rights, and the Divergence of Domestic and International Norms / Colin Scott and Monica Mulrennan
Part 3: Absences
8 Making Alternatives Visible: The Meaning of Autonomy for the Mapuche of Cholchol (Ngulumapu, Chile) / Pablo Marimán Quemenado
9 Twentieth-Century Transformations of East Cree Spirituality and Autonomy / Richard J. “Dick” Preston
Part 4: Hope
10 The International Order of Hope: Zapatismo and the Fourth World War / Alex Khasnabish
Afterword / Ravi de Costa
Works Cited
Contributors
Index
