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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464059803321

Autore

Coulthard Glen Sean <1974->

Titolo

Red skin, white masks : rejecting the colonial politics of recognition / / Glen Sean Coulthard ; foreword by Taiaiake Alfred

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8166-7964-9

1-4529-4840-2

1-4529-4242-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 pages)

Collana

Indigenous Americas

Disciplina

323.1197/071

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Canada - Government relations

Indians of North America - Canada - Politics and government

Indians of North America - Legal status, laws, etc - Canada

Indians, Treatment of - Canada

Electronic books.

Canada Ethnic relations Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : subjects of empire -- The politics of recognition in colonial contexts -- For the land : the Dene nation's struggle for self-determination -- Essentialism and the gendered politics of aboriginal self-government -- Seeing red : reconciliation and resentment -- The plunge into the chasm of the past : fanon, self-recognition, and decolonization -- Conclusion : lessons from idle no more : the future of indigenous activism.

Sommario/riassunto

Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization between the nation-state and Indigenous nations in North America. The term "recognition" shapes debates over Indigenous cultural distinctiveness, Indigenous rights to land and self-government, and Indigenous peoples' right to benefit from the development of their lands and resources. In a work of critically engaged political theory, Glen Sean Coulthard challenges



recognition as a method of organizing difference and identity in liberal politics, questioning the assumption that contemporary difference and past histories of destructive colonialism between the state and indigenous peoples can be reconciled through a process of acknowledgment.