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Title: | James Bay Crees’ Life Projects and Politics: Histories of Place, Animal Partners and Enduring Relationships |
Authors: | Feit, Harvey A. |
Department: | Anthropology |
Keywords: | Life Projects, Human-Animal Relationships, Place, Animal Agency, Development, James Bay Crees |
Publication Date: | 2004 |
Publisher: | Zed Books, International Development Research Center (IDRC) Canada |
Citation: | Feit, Harvey A. 2004. “James Bay Crees’ Life Projects and Politics: Histories of Place, Animal Partners and Enduring Relationships.” In In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization. Mario Blaser, Harvey A. Feit and Glenn McRae, eds. London: Zed Books and the Canadian International Development Research Centre. Pp. 92-110. |
Abstract: | In James Bay Cree struggles against transnational hydroelectric and forestry developments Cree leaders: address state institutions; forge access to transnational forums; build alliances with other Indigenous, environmental and human rights movements; build relationships with international media; and negotiate access world financial centres. James Bay Cree leaders also draw on powerful paradigms for collective agency provided by Cree hunters and hunting leaders. In this case study, Indigenous practices are rooted in life projects that are closely linked to local places but that have wide connections to other places and broad political relevance. Cree hunters' lives and problems are place-based not universalist, they are concerned with communities and lands that are the intimate settings of their everyday lives. These hunters' relationships extend beyond the human world to the worlds of animals and other non-human beings that are part of the multi-person process of the hunt. |
Description: | This chapter draws on the work of many Cree people and other scholars from whom I have drawn insights, including: Philip Awashish, Mario Blaser, Matthew Coon Come, Brian Craik, Paul Dixon, Sam C. Gull, Jasmin Habib, Peter Harries-Jones, Peter Hutchins, Chief Harvey Longboat, Ted Moses, Matthew Ottereyes, Alan Penn and Colin Scott. Open Access to this chapter and the book are also available at: https://www.idrc.ca/en/book/way-development-indigenous-peoples-life-projects-and-globalization . The book is also available at: https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/in-the-way-of-development/ |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/23540 |
ISBN: | 1 55250 004 7 |
Appears in Collections: | Anthropology Publications |
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