Indigeneity in Waiting; Critical Reflections of Power and Progress

Abstract

Significant institutional and legal advances concerning indigenous peoples have taken place both on national and international levels during the past two decades. The access of indigenous peoples to state-based political arenas has been improved and their rights are being increasingly negotiated and recognised. There is a sense of progress and a promise that change for the better is taking place. This panel problematises this perception and claims that the promise and anticipation of progress has engendered a new forms of power. The papers in the panel discuss historical and contemporary dimensions and shifts in the ways in which indigeneity has been and continues to be governed. The papers address national processes of recognition that are intimately linked with the global economy and the current environmental crisis as sites where certain kind of indigenous subjectivity is brought into being. The panel asks, how to make sense of the power exercised over indigeneity today. How does the anticipation of political, legal and economic progress govern and position indigeneity?

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