This volume explores broad conceptual questions raised by the 'discovery' of indigenous peoples as increasingly important global political actors - questions made all the more urgent by the sudden recognition that indigenous diplomacies are not at all new, but merely newly noticed.

Autorentext
Marshall Beier is Associate Professor of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada.

Inhalt

Indigenous Diplomacies as Indigenous Diplomacies; J.Marshall Beier Forgetting, Remembering, and Finding Indigenous Peoples in International Relations; J.Marshall Beier Communication/Excommunication: Transversal Indigenous Diplomacies in Global Politics; N.Soguk The Political Stakes of Indigenous Diplomacies: Questions of Difference; M.F.N.Franke Indigenous Diplomacies Before the Nation-State; R.de Costa A 'Revolution Within a Revolution': Indigenous Women's Diplomacies; L.Parisi & J.Corntassel Achievements of Indigenous Self-Determination: The Case of Sami Parliaments in Finland and Norway; R.Kuokkanen Coming in From the Cold: Inuit Diplomacy and Global Citizenship; F.Abele & T.Rodon Between the Leader of Virtù and the Good Savage: Indigenous Struggles and Life Projects in the Amazon Basin; M.V.Gonçalves Aboriginal Diplomacy: The Queen Comes to Canada and Coyote Goes to London; K.T.Carlson Inuit Transnational Activism: Cooperation and Resistance in the Face of Global Change; H.A.Smith& G.N.Wilson Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit: Beginning an Indigenous-Settler Reconciliation Dialogue; F.Wilmer Responding to a Deeply Bifurcated World: Indigenous Diplomacies in the 21st Century; M.Stewart-Harawira