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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/23543
Title: In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization
Authors: Blaser, Mario
Feit, Harvey A.
McRae, Glenn
Department: Anthropology
Keywords: Life Projects;Indigenous Peoples;Indigenous Rights;Civil Society;Globalization;Environmental Activism;Sustainable Development
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: Zed Books, International Developmen Research Center (IDRC) Canada
Citation: Blaser, Mario, Harvey A. Feit and Glenn McRae, eds. 2004 (E-book, 2013). In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization. London: Zed Books with Canadian International Development Research Centre. 372 pp.
Abstract: Indigenous peoples today are enmeshed in the expanding modern economy, subject to the pressures of both market and government. This book takes indigenous peoples as actors, not victims, as its starting point in analyzing this interaction. It assembles a rich diversity of statements, case studies, and wider thematic explorations, primarily from North America, and particularly the Cree, the Haudenausaunee (Iroquois), and Chippewa-Ojibwe peoples who straddle the US/Canada border, but also from South America and the former Soviet Union. It explores the complex relationships between indigenous peoples’ organizations, civil society, and the environment. It shows how the boundaries between indigenous peoples’ organizations, civil society, the state, markets, development, and the environment are ambiguous and constantly changing. These complexities create both opportunities and threats for local agency. People resist or react to the pressures of market and state, while sustaining “life projects” of their own, embodying their own local history, visions, and strategies.
Description: This book benefited from the contributions of many people and scholars from whom we have drawn insights, including: Philip Awashish, Bruno Barras (Paraguay), Pehuenche Lonko Antolin Curriao (Chile), Tom Deer, Jasmin Habib, Peter Harries-Jones, Chief Harvey Longboat,Aldisson Anguita Mariqueo, Dawn Martin-Hill, Alberto Santa Cruz (Paraguay), Colin Scott, Linda Staats, Clan Mother Gloria Thomas. Open Access to this book is 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/11375/23543
ISBN: 1842771922
Appears in Collections:Anthropology Publications

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