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The Neoliberal Embrace of Resilient Indigeneity

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Lindroth and Sinevaara-Niskanen demonstrate how resilience—as a term subsuming the peoples’ (alleged) vulnerability, role as care-takers and adaptability—has gained ground in international politics and its dealings with indigeneity. The chapter analyzes the requirement of resilient indigeneity as a neoliberal fantasy, a trope that redirects the attention of and measures taken by global politics from conditions to subjects. Instead of politics being concerned with mending the conditions that demand resilience on the part of indigenous subjects—the conditions that the politics itself has caused—it seeks to enhance the subjects that are struggling under those conditions. The chapter shows how this shift in focus is a move that dilutes the political potential of indigeneity to challenge the existing power set-up.

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    Marjo Lindroth

  2. Unit for Gender Studies, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

    Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen

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Lindroth, M., Sinevaara-Niskanen, H. (2018). The Neoliberal Embrace of Resilient Indigeneity. In: Global Politics and Its Violent Care for Indigeneity . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60982-9_4

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