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2010.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The articles in this, the one of three special issues of Alternatives on the theme of indigenous politics in the globalizing world, deal with important questions: How are the flows of people and ideas as well as the institutions to manage them impeded or assisted by the state and other social, political, and economic institutions? What does improved knowledge and understanding of these flows contribute to how one defines an indigenous community? What role do global technologies play in linking migrant and diasporic communities to each other and to the homeland? Authors in this issue articulate the local, national, and global contexts in which indigenous identity, interests, and consciousness are constructed and reconstructed through the case studies of Australia, Taiwan, Latin America, and Hawaii and produce novel perspectives that replace conventional understanding of indigenous politics. Instead of depicting indigenous people as passive victims of neoliberalism, globalization, and technological development, these studies illuminate agency, strategies, and the subjectivity of indigenous resistance in the twenty-first century.
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