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The Politics of Identity: Emerging Indigeneity

The Politics of Identity: Emerging Indigeneity

Paperback

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesIndigenous StudiesSocial Movements

ISBN10: 098723692X
ISBN13: 9780987236920
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Aug 29 2019
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The issue of Indigenous identity has gained more attention in recent years from social science scholars, yet much of the discussions still centre on the politics of belonging or not belonging. While these recent discussions in part speak to the complicated and contested nature of Indigeneity, both those who claim Indigenous identity and those who write about it seem to fall into a paradox of acknowledging its complexity on the one hand, while on the other hand reifying notions of 'tradition' and 'authentic cultural expression' as core features of an Indigenous identity. Since identity theorists generally agree that who we understand ourselves to be is as much a function of the time and place in which we live as it is about who we and others say we are, this scholarship does not progress our knowledge on the contemporary characteristics of Indigenous identity formations.

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