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![]() Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization Edited by Mario Blaser, Harvey A. Feit, and Glenn McRae Zed/IDRC 2004 ISBN 1-55250-004-7 384 pp. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book brings together very insightful analyses of indigenous experience and strategies in the context of globalization from several continents and a number of theoretical perspectives. There are broad similarities making this a common struggle but the solutions arise from people solving problems in local contexts. Read this book and you will see that the debate is a very important one for the furtherance of human rights, for the future of these ancient traditions, and for the promotion of cultural, political and economic diversity everywhere. Grand Chief Dr Ted Moses, Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee)
Indigenous peoples today are enmeshed in the expanding modern economy, subject to the pressures of both market and government. This book takes indigenous peoples as actors, not victims, as its starting point in analyzing this interaction. It assembles a rich diversity of statements, case studies, and wider thematic explorations, primarily from North America, and particularly the Cree, the Haudenausaunee (Iroquois), and Chippewa-Ojibwe peoples who straddle the US/Canada border, but also from South America and the former Soviet Union. It explores the complex relationships between indigenous peoples’ organizations, civil society, and the environment. It shows how the boundaries between indigenous peoples’ organizations, civil society, the state, markets, development, and the environment are ambiguous and constantly changing. These complexities create both opportunities and threats for local agency. People resist or react to the pressures of market and state, while sustaining “life projects” of their own, embodying their own local history, visions, and strategies.
THE EDITORS
Mario Blaser is an Argentinian-Canadian anthropologist who has worked and collaborated with a variety of endeavours undertaken by the Yshiro people since 1991. His scholarly work focuses on exploring the epistemological and political possibilities of non-modern ways of knowing.
Harvey A. Feit is Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University. He was an advisor to the Grand Council of the Crees during their 1972–1978 treaty process. His research is on how Cree epistemology shapes conservation practices and how these inform political relationships.
Glenn McRae is an applied anthropologist who has worked extensively throughout the United States, India, South Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America as an environmental consultant. He has a doctorate from the Union Institute & University, and he teaches at the University of Vermont.
Executive Summary Mario Blaser, Harvey A. Feit, and Glenn McRae 2004-06-28 About this Book 2004 Acknowledgements 2004 1. Indigenous Peoples and Development Processes: New Terrains of Struggle MARIO BLASER, HARVEY A. FEIT AND GLENN MCRAE 2004 2. Life Projects: Indigenous Peoples’ Agency and Development MARIO BLASER 2004 PART I: Visions: Life Projects, Representations and Conflicts 3. Life Projects: Development Our Way BRUNO BARRAS 2004 4. ‘Way of Life’ or ‘Who Decides’: Development, Paraguayan Indigenism and the Yshiro People’s Life Projects MARIO BLASER 2004 5. Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Development: Towards Coexistence DEBORAH McGREGOR 2004 6. James Bay Crees’ Life Projects and Politics: Histories of Place, Animal Partners and Enduring Relationships HARVEY A. FEIT 2004 7. Grassroots Transnationalism and Life Projects of Vermonters in the Great Whale Campaign GLENN McRAE 2004 8. ‘The People Had Discovered Their Own Approach to Life’: Politicizing Development Discourse WENDY RUSSELL 2004 PART II: STRATEGIES: STATES, MARKETS AND CIVIL SOCIETY 9. Survival in the Context of Mega-Resource Development: Experiences of the James Bay Crees and the First Nations of Canada MATTHEW COON COME 2004 10. The Importance of Working Together: Exclusions, Conflicts and Participation in James Bay, Quebec BRIAN CRAIK 2004 11. Defending a Common Home: Native/non-Native Alliances against Mining Corporations in Wisconsin AL GEDICKS AND ZOLTÁN GROSSMAN 2004 12. Chilean Economic Expansion and Mega-development Projects in Mapuche Territories ALDISSON ANGUITA MARIQUEO 2004 13. Hydroelectric Development on the Bío-Bío River, Chile: Anthropology and Human Rights Advocacy BARBARA ROSE JOHNSTON AND CARMEN GARCIA-DOWNING 2004 PART III: INVITATIONS: CONNECTIONS AND COEXISTENCE 14. Revisiting Gandhi and Zapata: Motion of Global Capital, Geographies of Difference and the Formation of Ecological Ethnicities PRAMOD PARAJULI 2004 15. A Dream of Democracy in the Russian Far East PETRA RETHMANN 2004 16. The ‘Risk Society’: Tradition, Ecological Order and Time–Space Acceleration PETER HARRIES-JONES 2004 17. Conflicting Discourses of Property, Governance and Development in the Indigenous North COLIN SCOTT 2004 18. Resistance, Determination and Perseverance of the Lubicon Cree Women DAWN MARTIN-HILL 2004 19. Restoring Our Relationships for the Future MARY ARQUETTE, MAXINE COLE AND THE AKWESASNE TASK FORCE ON THE ENVIRONMENT 2004 20. In Memoriam CHIEF HARVEY LONGBOAT (1936–2001) 2004 |
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