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Document Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
This chapter discusses indigenous peoples as agents of geopolitical change.It reviews strands of work in geography that discuss indigenous peoples andgeopolitical issues of territory, identity and subject-formation. As I hope toshow here, indigenous people are more than merely agents of a parochial formof geopolitics - this is no 'niche' form of 'minority studies' within the politicalgeographical tradition. Rather, manifold engagements with indigenous peoples- in colonial encounters, in government policy, in the spaces of contemporaryeveryday life- have deeply shaped the world we now know. Examinations ofindigenous peoples and geopolitics bring into sharp relief questions of land andcontrol, resources and livelihoods, agency and cultural identity- processes that asGlassman argued, affect literally billions of people (2006: 609). In more subtle ways,too, the manner in which indigenous people have been conceptualized historicallyhas shaped both geopolitical relations globally and the broader handling of humancultural and geographical difference.
RIS ID
90614
Publication Details
Gibson, C. (2013). Indigenous geopolitics. In K. Dodds, M. Kuus & J. Sharp (Eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics (pp. 421-437). Farnham, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Limited.