Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy

Mario Blaser is Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal studies at Memorial University. Ravi de Costa is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Deborah McGregor is an associate professor cross-appointed in the Department of Geography and Planning and the Aboriginal studies program at the University of Toronto. William D. Coleman is CIGI Chair in Globalization and Public Policy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.Contributors: Kristina Maud Bergeron, Harvey A. Feit, Erich Fox Tree, Alex Khasnabish, Monica Mulrennan, Marcelo Fernández Osco, Richard J. "Dick" Preston, Pablo Marimán Quemenado, Colin Scott, Rebeka Tabobondung

• PrefacePart 1: Introduction1 Reconfiguring the Web of Life: Indigenous Peoples, Relationality, and Globalization / Mario Blaser, Ravi de Costa, Deborah McGregor, and William D. Coleman2 Ayllu: Decolonial Critical Thinking and (An)other Autonomy / Marcelo Fernández OscoPart 2: Emergences3 Neoliberal Governance and James Bay Cree Governance: Negotiated Agreements, Oppositional Struggles, and Co-Governance / Harvey A. Feit4 Global Linguistics, Mayan Languages, and the Cultivation of Autonomy / Erich Fox Tree5 Global Activism and Changing Identities: Interconnecting the Global and the Local – The Grand Council of the Crees and the Saami Council / Kristina Maud Bergeron6 Indigenous Perspectives on Globalization: Self-Determination through Autonomous Media Creation / Rebeka Tabobondung7 Reconfiguring Mare Nullius: Torres Strait Islanders, Indigenous Sea Rights, and the Divergence of Domestic and International Norms / Colin Scott and Monica MulrennanPart 3: Absences8 Making Alternatives Visible: The Meaning of Autonomy for the Mapuche of Cholchol (Ngulumapu, Chile) / Pablo Marimán Quemenado9 Twentieth-Century Transformations of East Cree Spirituality and Autonomy / Richard J. "Dick" PrestonPart 4: Hope10 The International Order of Hope: Zapatismo and the Fourth World War / Alex KhasnabishAfterword / Ravi de CostaWorks CitedContributorsIndex