PSCI 3684 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: United Nations Commission On Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, World Politics
23 Dec 2016
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Un commission on human rights (1995: priority in time w/ respect to the occupation & use of a specific territory (original occupancy of territory, voluntary perpetuation of cultural distinctiveness. (language, social org, religion/spiritual values, modes of productions, laws, institutions: self identification as well as recognition by other groups or by state authorities as a distinct collectivity, an experience of subjugation, marginalization, dispossession, exclusion, or discrimination. Diverse forms of life, knowledge, subsistence, spirituality, healing, ways of being human. Distinct patterns of colonialism: broad tendencies of poverty & discrimination, but not universal. Upsets the idea of staged, unlinear process of human evolution. Indigenous/native emerged of colonialism: alongside categories of settler", colonist", and. European : rise of the state form, economic incorporation, yet we see them as essentially different, distinct. Indigenous always imagined as an unchanging part or the past or tradition, an example of a prior, less developed stage in cultural evolution, not as changing part of a dynamic present.
