Indigeneity on the Move

Varying Manifestations of a Contested Concept
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-828-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 502 g

“Indigeneity” has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences. This edited volume draws from authors representing different disciplines and perspectives, exploring the dependence of indigeneity on varying sociopolitical contexts, actors, and discourses with the ultimate goal of investigating the concept’s scientific and political potential.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerharz, Eva

Uddin, Nasir

Chakkarath, Pradeep

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Adam Kuper

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Exploring Indigeneity: Introductory Remarks

Nasir Uddin, Eva Gerharz, and Pradeep Chakkarath

PART I: STRUGGLES OVER LAND AND RESOURCES

Chapter 1. On the Nature of Indigenous Land: Ownership, Access and Farming in Upland Northeast India

Erik de Maaker

Chapter 2. Considering the Implications of the Concept of Indigeneity for Land and Natural Resource Management in Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos

Ian G. Baird

PART II: BECOMING INDIGENOUS

Chapter 3. Processes of Modernization, Processes of Indigenization: an Amazonian Case (Yanomami, Southern Venezuela)

Gabriele Herzog-Schröder

Chapter 4. Indigenous Activism Beyond Ethnic Groups: Shifting Boundaries and Constellations of Belonging

Eva Gerharz

Chapter 5. In Search of Self: Identity, Indigeneity, and Cultural Politics in Bangladesh

Nasir Uddin

PART III: INDIGENEITY AS A POLITICAL RESOURCE

Chapter 6. Different Trajectories of Indigenous Rights Movements in Africa: Insights from Cameroon and Tanzania

Michaela Pelican

Chapter 7. Politics of Indigeneity in the Andean Highlands: Indigenous Social Movements and the State in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru (1940–2015)

Olaf Kaltmeier

Chapter 8. Conflicting Dimensions of Indigeneity as a Contested Political Resource in Contemporary Mexico

Gilberto Rescher

PART IV: INDIGENEITY AND THE STATE

Chapter 9. Intimate Antagonisms: Adivasis and the State in Contemporary India

Uday Chandra

Chapter 10. Indigeneity, Culture and the State: Social Change and Legal Reforms in Latin America

Wolfgang Gabbert

Chapter 11. Fluid Indigeneities in the Indian Ocean: A Small History of the State and its Other

Philipp Zehmisch

Postscriptum: The Futures of Indigenous Medicine: Networks, Contexts, Freedom

William S. Sax

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chakkarath, Pradeep
Pradeep Chakkarath is Co-Director of the Hans Kilian and Lotte Köhler Centre (KKC) for Cultural Psychology and Historical Anthropology at the Ruhr-University Bochum. He is also a fellow alumnus of the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Konstanz and a member of the Task Force on Indigenous Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Uddin, Nasir
Nasir Uddin is a Cultural Anthropologist based in Bangladesh and a Professor of Anthropology at Chittagong University. His edited books include To Host or To Hurt: Counter-narratives on the Rohingya Refugee Issues in Bangladesh (ICDR, 2012) and Life in Peace and Conflict: Indigeneity and State in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (Orient BlackSwan, 2017).

Gerharz, Eva
Eva Gerharz is Professor of Sociology with a Special Focus on Globalisation at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She is the author of The Politics of Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka. Transnational Commitments to Social Change (Routledge, 2014) and co-editor of Governance, Conflict and Development in South Asia (with Siri Hettige, Sage, 2015).

Eva Gerharz is Professor of Sociology with a Special Focus on Globalisation at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She is the author of The Politics of Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka. Transnational Commitments to Social Change (Routledge, 2014) and co-editor of Governance, Conflict and Development in South Asia (with Siri Hettige, Sage, 2015).