Indigeneity and Political Theory
Sovereignty and the Limits of the Political
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-77701-8
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 12th September 2008 (Available for Pre-order)
- Pages: 256
About the Book
Sovereignty and Political Theory engages some of the profound challenges to traditions of modern political theory that have been posed over the past two decades. Although sovereignty is usually analyzed in the abstract, Karena Shaw engages actual practices of sovereignty as they are embedded in and shape indigenous politics, and responses to indigenous politics.
Drawing on theories from post-colonialism, feminism, globalization, ethnicity and international relations and using examples of contemporary political practice (court cases, controversies, etc.), Shaw seeks to illustrate and argue for a way of doing political theory that is more responsive to the challenges posed by a range of contemporary issues.
In developing this argument, issues discussed include:
- The Native Women’s Association of Canada’s opposition to the Constitutional Referendum of 1992
- The Delgamuukw Court Cases; the history of "Indian policy" in Canada
- Recent writings by Indigenous scholars.
An engaging and highly original analysis of sovereignty, this book enables the reader a more robust consideration of relationships between theory and practice, and thus the politics of theorizing.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Problem of the Political Part 1: Sovereignty and the Political 2. Hobbes: Producing Politics/Effacing Interrogation 3. Violences of Sovereignty: The "Regrettable Necessity" of Civilization 4. Sovereignty and Disciplinarity Part 2: Negotiating the Limits of the Political 5. Resistance: Negotiating the Interstices of Sovereignty 6. Adjudication: Paradoxes of Law and Sovereignty 7. Limits: James Tully and the Politics of Theory Part 3: Emerging Politicizations 8. Rethinking Sovereignty: Deleuze and Guattari 9. Rethinking Indigeneity: Remapping the Political 10. Conclusions: Leviathan’s Angels and the Future of Political Theory Bibliography
About the Author(s)
Karena Shaw is Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. A political theorist by training, she is particularly interested in how a range of contemporary political challenges—such as those raised by indigenous, feminist and environmental movements—are reshaping political space and possibility.