Theorizing Native Studies
Will be published approx. on 30. May 2014
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-8223-5667-7 (ISBN)
Description
This important collection makes a compelling argument for the importance of theory in Native studies. Within the field, there has been understandable suspicion of theory stemming both from concerns about urgent political issues needing to take precedence over theoretical speculations and from hostility toward theory as an inherently Western, imperialist epistemology. The editors of Theorizing Native Studies take these concerns as the ground for recasting theoretical endeavors as attempts to identify the larger institutional and political structures that enable racism, inequities, and the displacement of indigenous peoples. They emphasize the need for Native people to be recognized as legitimate theorists and for the theoretical work happening outside the academy, in Native activist groups and communities, to be acknowledged. Many of the essays demonstrate how Native studies can productively engage with others seeking to dismantle and decolonize the settler state, including scholars putting theory to use in critical ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, and postcolonial studies. Taken together, the essays demonstrate how theory can serve as a decolonizing practice.Contributors. Christopher Bracken, Glen Coulthard, Mishuana Goeman, Dian Million, Scott Morgensen, Robert Nichols, Vera Palmer, Mark Rifkin, Audra Simpson, Andrea Smith, Teresia Teaiwa
Reviews / Votes
"Theory might be read as ever-present according to this collection, but practice is clearly important too-Native practice in Native ways; Native activism, projects, scholarship. ... In effect, the book allows theory and practice to lean against each other as steadfast partners in the Native matters that make Native studies important beyond the academy, double-underlining the Native-ness on which its chapters are grounded." - Aroha Harris (Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History) "Given that academics continue to debate the efficacy of theory, Theorizing Native Studies supplies a necessary contribution to the field.... The editors have achieved their goal of compiling a collection that serves as an important contribution to theoretical studies in general, and Native Studies in particular." - Monica L. Butler (Journal of Anthropological Research) "Although each individual essay offers an important intervention on its own terms, as a collection, the volume is a vibrant snapshot of the field while also gesturing toward new horizons of theoretical possibility." - Hokulani K. Aikau (Western Historical Quarterly) "The collected essays provide a helpful overview of the work of a new generation of activist Native academics and artists, many of them participants both in local community or transnational organizing and the Critical Ethnic Studies Association founded in 2011. ... [A] groundbreaking contribution to the burgeoning writing in theorized politics and Native Studies activist scholarship that will have broad ramifications across many fields and movements for many years to come." - Joe Parker (Women's Studies) "This book should be required reading for all students contemplating advanced scholarship in the field of Indigenous studies. It is a much needed corrective to decades of misplaced hostility directed towards theory in general, and Indigenous theory in particular. I recommend it highly." - Heather Devine (Canadian Journal of Native Studies)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
5 photographs
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-5667-7 (9780822356677)
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Additional editions
Simpson Audra Simpson
Theorizing Native Studies
E-Book
05/2014
Duke University Press Books
€208.99
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Persons
Andrea Smith is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Native Americans and the Christian Right, published by Duke University Press, and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide.
Audra Simpson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life across the Borders of Settler States, also published by Duke University Press.
Audra Simpson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life across the Borders of Settler States, also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Audra Simpson and Andrea Smith 1 1. There Is a River in Me: Theory from Life / Dian Million 31 2. The Ancestors We Get to Choose: White Influences I Won't Deny / Teresia Teaiwa 43 3. From Wards of the State to Subjects of Recognition? Marx, Indigenous Peoples, and the Politics of Dispossession in Denendeh / Glen Coulthard 56 4. Contract and Usurpation: Enfranchisement and Racial Governance in Settler-Colonial Contexts / Robert Nichols 99 5. "In This Separation": The Noncorrespondence of Joseph Johnson / Christopher Bracken 122 6. Making Peoples into Populations: The Racial Limits of Tribal Sovereignty / Mark Rifkin 149 7. Indigenous Transnationalism and the AIDS Pandemic: Challenging Settler Colonialism within Global Health Governance / Scott Lauria Morgensen 188 8. Native Studies at the Horizon of Death: Theorizing Ethnographic Entrapment and Settler Self-Reflexivity / Andrea Smith 207 9. Disrupting a Settler-Colonial Grammar of Place: The Visual Memoir of Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie / Mishuana R. Goeman 235 10. The Devil in the Details: Controverting an American Indian Conversion Narrative / Vera B. Palmer 266 Bibliography 297 Contributors 321 Index 323