Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought - Hardcover

Temin, David Myer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226827267 ISBN 13: 9780226827261

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2023

Synopsis

An examination of anticolonial thought and practice across key Indigenous thinkers.

Accounts of decolonization routinely neglect Indigenous societies, yet Native communities have made unique contributions to anticolonial thought and activism. Remapping Sovereignty examines how twentieth-century Indigenous activists in North America debated questions of decolonization and self-determination, developing distinctive conceptual approaches that both resonate with and reformulate key strands in other civil rights and global decolonization movements. In contrast to decolonization projects that envisioned liberation through state sovereignty, Indigenous theorists emphasized the self-determination of peoples against sovereign state supremacy and articulated a visionary politics of decolonization as earthmaking. Temin traces the interplay between anticolonial thought and practice across key thinkers, interweaving history and textual analysis. He shows how these insights broaden the political and intellectual horizons open to us today.

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About the Author

David Myer Temin is assistant professor of political science and on the faculty in Native American Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226827267
• ISBN 13: 9780226827261
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288