Authenticating Strategic Essentialisms: The Politics Of Indigenousness At The United Nations

Authenticating Strategic Essentialisms: The Politics Of Indigenousness At The United Nations Sylvia Escárcega, 2010 In the politics of indigenousness in international fora there are discourses and practices that strategically delimit the universe of meanings and that seek to define what are indigenous traditions, histories, collective memories, worldviews, present conditions, ways of life, and future aspirations. I argue that indigenous intellectuals and activists depict a strategically...

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