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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Indigenous Movements"”.
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The political ecology of indigenous movements and tree plantations in Chile : the role of political strategies of Mapuche communities in shaping their social and natural livelihoods.
… have expanded significantly on traditional indigenous territories. Chile’s forestry sector began to expand rapidly in 1974, the year following the military coup, owing to the privatization of forest lands and the passing of Decree 701. That law continues to provide large subsidies for …
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The Andean Exception: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Absence of Large-Scale Indigenous Social Mobilization in Peru
The study of “new” social movements in Latin America has inspired the work of many scholars from numerous disciplines over the past two decades. In particular, Peru is known among scholars of Latin American indigenous peoples as an exception in the Andes, due to the country’s historical lack of …
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Cree (Nêhiyawak) Mobility, Diplomacy, and Resistance in the Canada-US Borderlands, 1885 - 1917
… (GIS), ethnohistory, and data analysis to track Indigenous movements and to analyze how the Cree navigated their status as “foreign” Indians. It focuses on Cree transnational mobility, diplomacy, and resistance from the events of 1885 at Frog Lake, North-west Territories, to the eventual creation …
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We who make one another: Liberatory solidarity as relational
… of identity and shared interests. Organized movements may aim for expanded access to institutional claims and for cultural representation, and yet liberatory movements also have more specific objectives: to challenge the legitimacy of oppressive political and moral regimes, and to put those …
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Translating Celestial Solidarity: Diasporic Chinese Alignments with Indigenous Struggles in Aotearoa New Zealand and so-called Canada
In conditions of ongoing colonization and Indigenous resurgence, non-Indigenous peoples of colour have had to confront their positionality, complicity, and responsibilities to Indigenous peoples. In the past two decades, there has been growing support and attention from Chinese diasporas towards …
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Cosmopolitan comuneros: celebrating indigeneity through the appropriation of urbanity in the Quito Basin
My dissertation examines urban indigenous identity in the Quito Basin in contrast to essentialized representations of indigenousness that emanate from emerging multicultural state policy and prominent indigenous movements in Ecuador. Based on ethnographic research I conducted between 2003-2011, I …
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Reconcile the Indian, reconcile the nation: Transnational Indian reform in the era of inter-American politics, 1930-1960
… public and sought to incorporate and transform indigenous populations. In the process, this research provides the first in-depth examination of the United States National Indian Institute. This dissertation argues that during the twentieth century, the concept of the Indian ""problem"" began to …
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Dispositifs de conservation écorégionale et droits indigènes dans l’Amazonie Bolivienne: Les cas des Peuples du Madidi et Pilón Lajas
… activists in the country and leaders of local indigenous movements have played an important role before and after this neoliberal modernization in the implementation of an ecorregional conservation apparatus in the Bolivian Amazon. The objective of this transdisciplinaria research, is an …
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The reconfiguration of the state in an era of neoliberal globalism: State violence and indigenous responses in the Costa Chica-Montaña of Guerrero, Mexico.
… and the growing mobilisation of organised indigenous opposition ranging from the peaceful obstruction of hydroelectric mega-projects in their territories to armed struggle. In view of the State crisis, this thesis argues that there has been a shift in the system of control mechanisms of the …
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After conversion: gender, modernity, and the regeneration of Christianity across three generations of indigenous evangelicals in highland Ecuador
… of religious change across three generations of indigenous evangelicals in the Ecuadorian Andes. This process, which I term re-generating Christianity, involves negotiating the legacies of mass conversion in shifting sociocultural contexts in and through generational and gender relations. Based …
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Making Indigenous Futures: Land, Memory, and 'Silent Knowledge' in a Skolt Sámi Community
… considers experiences of embodied memory and indigenous connection to land by which people reconstitute social life in Skolt Sámi resettlement areas of Arctic Finland. After their Petsamo homeland was ceded to the Soviet Union following the Second World War, Skolt relocation to new areas of …
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Beyond the paint and ink: ASAR Oaxaca resistance and getting up Arte Pal Pueblo
This thesis aims to address the ways in Oaxacan street artists frame alternative realities within art and interviews about their art. Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca or ASARO, is a revolutionary artist collective that currently works in Oaxaca Mexico. They place their art in …