Self-Determination and Indigenous Health: Is There a Connection?
When people lack autonomy their mental and physical health tends to deteriorate, and for those who feel the least autonomous, the outcomes are generally the worst.
Knowledge, Technology, and the Pragmatic Dimensions of Self-Determination
Indigenous uses of ICTs are about connecting to homelands, strengthening ways of knowing, disseminating ideas about what it takes to survive, resist, and transform.
Self-Determination as Anti-Extractivism: How Indigenous Resistance Challenges IR
Indigeneity is a valuable approach to understanding world politics as much as it is a critical concept to move beyond state-centrism in International Relations.
Self-Determination: A Perspective from Abya Yala
In their approaches to indigenous rights, both the EZLN and MAS allow us to critically explore what is at stake in our efforts to overcome (neo)colonialism.
Tibetan Self-Determination: A Stark Choice for an Abandoned People
Tibetans have been abandoned to their fate. Neither the USA nor Russia wish to set the agenda and engage directly with China over self-rule for the indigenous Tibetans.
Self-Determination as Self-Transformation
“Self-determination” refers to a new phase of adaptation, in which Indigenous people demand (and hopefully get) new resources for self-transformation.
Self-Determination and State Definitions of Indigenous Peoples
At a high level of generalization, we see three broad characteristics with which state definition practices and regimes regarding Indigenous peoples might be explained.
On the Meaning of Restoring Indigenous Self-Determination
Restoring Indigenous self-determination must also – or primarily – be about Indigenous peoples asserting themselves and promoting healing from within.
Edited Collection – Restoring Indigenous Self Determination
This volume’s contributors suggest that much more work is needed to determine what Indigenous self-determination means in theory and how it is to be achieved in practice.
Defining Mexico’s Zapatista Army of National Liberation
The Zapatistas are arguably the first localist group that has emerged in Latin America and it is debatable whether the same types of conditions that fomented their appearance and durability can be duplicated in other regional states.
