Description
Book SynopsisThis book re-evaluates the role of recognition in analyzing relations between groups in plural societies, the position of indigenous peoples in settler societies, and the principle of the self-determination of peoples.
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: On the Use and Abuse of Recognition in Politics / Melissa S. Williams
Part 1: Recognition and Self-Determination: Connections and Tensions
1 Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the History of Mexican Indigenous Politics / Courtney Jung
2 Recognition and Self-Determination: Approaches from Above and Below / Jakeet Singh
3 Two Faces of State Power / Rinku Lamba
Part 2: The Practice of Recognition and Misrecognition, Self-Determination, and Imposition
4 A Farewell to Rhetorical Arms? Unravelling the Self-Determination of Peoples / Zoran Oklopcic
5 The Politics of Recognition and Misrecognition and the Case of Muslim Canadians / Yasmeen Abu-Laban
6 Place against Empire: The Dene Nation, Land Claims, and the Politics of Recognition in the North / Glen Coulthard
7 The Rights of Indigenous Peoples to Self-Determination and the Struggle against Cultural Appropriation / Francois Boucher
8 Inter-Indigenous Recognition and the Cultural Production of Indigeneity in the Western Settler States / Kirsty Gover
Part 3: Possible Ways of Reframing the Issues
9 Recognition, Politics of Difference, and the Institutional Identity of Peoples / Michel Seymour
10 Custom and Indigenous Self-Determination: Reflections on “Post-Territoriality” / Ghislain Otis
11 The Generosity of Toleration / Jeremy Webber
12 Self-Determination versus Recognition: Lessons and Conclusions / Avigail Eisenberg
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