| ID | 129834 |
| Title Proper | Searching for certainty in purity |
| Other Title Information | indigenous fundamentalism |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Hill, Braden |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Indigenous resistance to colonial hegemony developed as one based on a politics of difference. This strategic construction of difference relied on the notion of culture to establish a discursive space to articulate the political demands of the subjugated Indigenous minority. This article interrogates the less liberatory impulses of such political constructions of identity and culture. I contend that indigenous responses to colonization that are based on a politics of difference have the potential to, and in particular instances do, invoke the notion of culture and identity as an oppressive site of authority in a way that is, in practice, fundamentalist. |
| `In' analytical Note | Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Vol. 20, No.1; Jan-Mar 2014: p.10-25 |
| Journal Source | Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Vol. 20, No.1; Jan-Mar 2014: p.10-25 |
| Key Words | Fundamentalist ; Identity ; Colonization ; Political Demands ; Indigenous Fundamentalism |