POL312Y1 Lecture Notes - Aboriginal Peoples In Canada, Climate Justice, Neoliberalism

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28 Mar 2013
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Troublesome concept: timeless identities essentially transformed by encounters with modernity, empowered by international law. Implies not only some kind of historic concept. Indigenous identity are perhaps timeless identities that are tied to a particular place. Bespeaks territorial connection and implied distinction from majority/dominant population: ips either minorities i. e. anglo settler societies, sami. Or non dominant minorities i. e. bolivia, peru: linked to colonialism, imperialism, historical dispossession, approx. 300 million ips worldwide; obvious definitional implications: indigenous populations, people, peoples, etc. Peoples: when modern western government started quantifying the indigenous people, it was statistical. It was used as a measurement of numbers. It actually implies certain rights of these people that the multiple western states didn"t want to acknowledge. 4 percent of canadian population which is 1. 2 million; fastest growing segment of population; half under 25; half in urban areas. 600 recognized bands or governments across country. Constitutional indians first nations, inuit and metis (sec.

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