The Rediscovered Self - Indigenous Identity and Cultural Justice

Informationen zum Autor Ronald Niezen Klappentext 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. The Rediscovered Self shows how, through the processes and aims of justice, distinct ways of life begin to be expressed through new media, formal procedures, and transnational collaborations. Discusses the ways various rights standards and networks of activist collaboration facilitate indigenous claims about culture, adding coherence to their histories, institutions, and group qualities. This title illustrates the ways indigenous peoples worldwide identify and act upon various opportunities to further their rights and identities.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald Niezen
• Publisher: Mcgill queen's university pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.08.2009
• EAN: 9780773535305
• ISBN: 978-0-7735-3530-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series; McGill-Queen's Native and Nort; McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series; McGill-Queen's Native and Nort; McGill-Queen's Indigenous and
• Subject: Non-fiction book