
Indigenous Encounters with Neoliberalism
Place, Women, and the Environment in Canada and Mexico
Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez(Author)
University of British Columbia Press
Will be published approx. on 17. May 2013
Book
Hardback
284 pages
978-0-7748-2508-5 (ISBN)
Description
The recognition of Indigenous rights and the management of land and resources have always been fraught with complex power relations and conflicting expressions of identity. In Indigenous Encounters with Neoliberalism, Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez explores how this issue is playing out in two countries very differently marked by neoliberalism's local expressions - Canada and Mexico.
Weaving together four distinct case studies, two from each country, Altamirano-Jimenez presents insights from Indigenous feminism, critical geography, political economy, and postcolonial studies. These specific examples highlight Indigenous people's responses to neoliberalism, reflecting the tensions that result from how Indigenous identity, gender, and the environment have been connected. Indigenous women's perspectives are particularly illuminating as they articulate diverse aspirations and concerns within a wider political framework.
What emerges is a theoretical and empirical discussion of how indigeneity as an act of articulation is embedded in tensions between local needs and global wants. This study attempts to uncover the complexities of materializing neoliberalism and the fluidity of indigeneity.
Weaving together four distinct case studies, two from each country, Altamirano-Jimenez presents insights from Indigenous feminism, critical geography, political economy, and postcolonial studies. These specific examples highlight Indigenous people's responses to neoliberalism, reflecting the tensions that result from how Indigenous identity, gender, and the environment have been connected. Indigenous women's perspectives are particularly illuminating as they articulate diverse aspirations and concerns within a wider political framework.
What emerges is a theoretical and empirical discussion of how indigeneity as an act of articulation is embedded in tensions between local needs and global wants. This study attempts to uncover the complexities of materializing neoliberalism and the fluidity of indigeneity.
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English
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Vancouver
Canada
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
540 gr
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978-0-7748-2508-5 (9780774825085)
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Indigenous Encounters with Neoliberalism
Place, Women, and the Environment in Canada and Mexico
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University of British Columbia Press
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Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez (Zapotec) is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.
Content
Introduction: The Articulation of Indigeneity and Neoliberal Governance
1 The Political Economy of Indigeneity Articulation
2 Indigeneity, Nature, and Neoliberalism
3 Nunavut: Arctic Homeland and Frontier
4 The Nisga'a "Common Bowl," Gender, and Property Rights
5 The Zapatista Movement: Place-Driven Recognition?
6 Indigeneity, Land, and Gender in Oaxaca
Conclusion: Toward Spaces of Indigenous Repossessions
References
Index
1 The Political Economy of Indigeneity Articulation
2 Indigeneity, Nature, and Neoliberalism
3 Nunavut: Arctic Homeland and Frontier
4 The Nisga'a "Common Bowl," Gender, and Property Rights
5 The Zapatista Movement: Place-Driven Recognition?
6 Indigeneity, Land, and Gender in Oaxaca
Conclusion: Toward Spaces of Indigenous Repossessions
References
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