The rediscovered self indigenous identity and cultural justice
4e de couv.: In a series of thematically linked essays, Ronald Niezen discusses how new rights standards and networks of activist collaboration facilitate indigenous claims about culture and increase the coherence of aboriginal histories, institutions, and group qualities. Drawing on historical, legal, and ethnographic material on aboriginal communities in northern Canada, Niezen illustrates the ways indigenous peoples worldwide are identifying and acting upon new opportunities to further their rights and identities. He shows how - within the constraints of state and international legal systems, activist lobbying strategies, and public ideas and expectations - indigenous leaders are working to overcome the injuries of imposed change, political exclusion, and loss of identity. Taken together, the essays provide a critical understanding of the ways in which people are seeking cultural justice while rearticulating and, at times, re-dignifying the collective self
Livre imprimé, English, cop. 2009
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montréal, cop. 2009