The Indigenous Voice in World Politics - Since Time Immemorial

The author examines how indigenous activists are cultivating international support for a programme of self-determination and legal protection, as well as how the indigenous voice in world politics is transforming civic discourse within the international community. With the United Nations designating 1993 as the `Year of Indigenous Peoples', this book could not be more timely.

List of contents

Fighting Back
Fourth World Peoples in the World System
Development Can Have Many Meanings
Indigenous Peoples and the Discourse of Modernization
Colonization, Conquest and the Moral Boundaries of the Legal and Political Community
The Great Cause of Civilization
What Indigenous Peoples Want and How They Are Getting It
From Conquest to Self-Determination
The Decolonization of Fourth World Peoples
The Indigenous Voice in World Politics

Summary

The author examines how indigenous activists are cultivating international support for a programme of self-determination and legal protection, as well as how the indigenous voice in world politics is transforming civic discourse within the international community. With the United Nations designating 1993 as the `Year of Indigenous Peoples', this book could not be more timely.

Product details

• Authors: Franke Wilmer, Wilmer Franke
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.11.1993
• EAN: 9780803953352
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-5335-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Weight: 400 g
• Series: Multicultural Aspects of Couns; Violence, Cooperation, Peace; Multicultural Aspects of Couns; Violence, Cooperation, Peace
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, International Relations, Indigenous Peoples, Political science & theory, Relating to indigenous peoples, Political science and theory