Indigenous peoples and colonialism : global perspectives / Colin Samson and Carlos Gigoux.

Main entry:

Samson, Colin, author.

Title & Author:

Indigenous peoples and colonialism : global perspectives / Colin Samson and Carlos Gigoux.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Polity Press, 2017.
©2017

Description:

xvii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identity -- Colonization -- Land -- Environment -- Rights -- Culture.

Summary:

Indigenous peoples have gained increasing international visibility in their fight against longstanding colonial occupation by nation-states. Although living in different locations around the world and practicing highly varied ways of life, indigenous peoples nonetheless are affected by similar patterns of colonial dispossession and violence. In defending their collective rights to self-determination, culture, lands and resources, their resistance and creativity offer a pause for critical reflection on the importance of maintaining indigenous distinctiveness against the homogenizing forces of states and corporations. This timely book highlights significant colonial patterns of domination and their effects, as well as responses and resistance to colonialism. It brings indigenous peoples' issues and voices to the forefront of sociological discussions of modernity. In particular, the book examines issues of identity, dispossession, environment, rights and revitalization in relation to historical and ongoing colonialism, showing that the experiences of indigenous peoples in wealthy and poor countries are often parallel and related. With a strong comparative scope and interdisciplinary perspective, the book is an essential introductory reading for students interested in race and ethnicity, human rights, development and indigenous peoples' issues in an interconnected world. -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780745672519 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0745672515 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780745672526 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0745672523 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(mobi)
9781509514564
(epub)
9781509514571

Subject:

Indigenous peoples Colonization.
Indigenous peoples Government relations.
Indigenous peoples Ethnic identity.
Self-determination, National.
Autochtones Relations avec l'État.
Autochtones Identité ethnique.
Droit des peuples à disposer d'eux-mêmes.

Added entries:

Gigoux, Carlos, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316742
Call No.: 316742
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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