Indigenous Ontologies and Political Self-Determination

Abstract

This panel explores how Indigenous ontologies challenge Western political theory's foundational assumptions about sovereignty, political membership, and collective agency. Papers might examine Indigenous cosmologies as alternative frameworks for understanding political being, analyze how colonial impositions of Western ontological categories constrain Indigenous self-determination, or investigate how Indigenous activism troubles the ontological grounds of state sovereignty.

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Indigenous Diplomacy and the Limits of the State-Centric International Order	View Paper Details
Sámi Relational Ontologies and Political Thought on More-Than-Human Political Agency and Human Responsibility	View Paper Details
Becoming Sovereigns: Imperialism, Self-Determination and Recognition in the 21st Century	View Paper Details