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Sherpa, Pasang Yangjee. "Indigenous movements identification of indigenous concerns in Nepal /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2009/p_sherpa_042409.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in anthropology)--Washington State University, May 2009.Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 22, 2009). "Department of Anthropology." Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-55).
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Merritt, Maria Torres Betanzos Lourdes. "Teatro en rebeldía generador de cultura /." Auburn, Ala., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1927.
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Kingsbury, Benedict. "Indigenous peoples in international law." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334165.
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Rossi, Stefano <1989>. "The Rights of Indigenous Peoples." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/4207.
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La presente ricerca si prefigge di comprendere non solo la posizione internazionale, ma anche nazionale, che i popoli indigeni attualmente occupano in vari paesi latinoamericani. Partendo da un'analisi dei diritti umani e dei numerosi strumenti internazionali rivolti alla protezione e sviluppo degli stessi, il principale obiettivo di tale studio è quello di fornire al lettore la possibilità di verificare se realmente, nel caso dei popoli indigeni del Sud America, i diritti umani siano rispettati o se la complicata e, a volte, rugginosa macchina dei diritti umani non risulti in grado di fornire protezione a tali popolazioni. Si prenderanno in considerazione gli sviluppi delle richieste dei popoli indigeni e il processo attraverso il quale la comunità internazionale ha affrontato il problema del riconoscimento dei diritti di tali popoli, attraverso un' analisi di quelli che sono i documenti internazionali concernenti tali popolazioni e come, gli stessi popoli indigeni siano stati in grado di far fronte a realtà avverse e contrarie all'effettivo riconoscimento dei loro diritti. Infatti, come la storia ci mostra, i popoli indigeni sono stati spesso considerati semplici gruppi di individui, etichettati a volte come selvaggi, che dovevano esser integrati nel contesto nazionale, dapprima, e in quello internazionale poi, dimenticando in tal modo le loro peculiarità e culture.
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Frías, José. "Understanding indigenous rights : the case of indigenous peoples in Venezuela." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=31158.
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On December 15, 1999, the people of Venezuela approved a new Constitution, which is the first Venezuelan constitution to entrench the rights of indigenous peoples. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the different theoretical issues raised by the problem of rights for indigenous peoples. It is argued that indigenous rights are collective rights based on the value of cultural membership. This implies both an investigation of the value of cultural membership and of the criticisms that the multicultural perspective has offered against that point of view.Indigenous peoples have the moral right to preserve their cultures and traditions. It is submitted that indigenous peoples have a double moral standing to claim differential treatment based on cultural membership, because they constitute cultural minorities and they were conquered and did not lend their free acceptance to the new regime imposed upon them. Therefore, they constitute a national minority, with moral standing to claim self-government and cultural rights.
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Duckworth, Cheryl Lynn. "Revitalizing our dances land and dignity in Paraguay /." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3427.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Mason University, 2008.Vita: p. 305. Thesis director: Agnieszka Paczynska. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 9, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-304). Also issued in print.
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Kidd, Christopher. "Development discourse and the Batwa of South West Uganda : representing the 'other' : presenting the 'self'." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis record to view abstract. Move to record for print version, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/169/.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2008.Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, 2008. Includes bibliographical references.
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Munarriz, Gerardo J. "Indigenous peoples and international human rights law : mining, multinational corporations and the struggles of indigenous peoples in Peru." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62915.
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This thesis examines and questions the role of international human rights law and international economic law in relation to the increasing encroachment and dispossession of Indigenous lands and territories by multinational corporations (MNCs) in the extractive industry. It also aims to explore the role of a national state’s legal framework and policies not only in validating, authorizing and embedding this process, but also in authorizing a growing and pervasive trend of persecution and criminalization of Indigenous communities who challenge and resist MNCs’ operations. The examination of the relationship between national and international law provides a terrain to grasp how international economic law and international human rights law have become part of evolving regulatory architectures of global governance aiming to validate and embed global capital accumulation.
Focusing on Peru, this thesis argues that law, particularly international economic law and the legal framework developed in Peru since the 1990s, has played a prominent role in facilitating and embedding multinational corporate investment in the extractive industry, and in weakening the rights of Indigenous and peasant communities to control their land, water and resources. Peru’s legal framework and policies on extractive industries have not only validated the expansion of MNCs operations and dispossession of Indigenous lands, but have also validated a growing trend of persecution and criminalisation of Indigenous communities. While international economic law constitutes, enables and protects MNCs, international human rights law and corporate social responsibility mechanisms are linked to and help to extend the expansion and deepening of global capital accumulation by means of laws and regulations designed to facilitate and remove barriers to the power and mobility of MNCs.
Notwithstanding legal and socio-economic barriers, Indigenous communities have mobilized against and resisted MNCs operations. A comparison of three conflicts involving corporate actors and local communities reveals the existence of intense social mobilization and resistance of Indigenous and peasant communities to defend their land rights, their environment and livelihood, their participation in the decision making process and fair distribution of economic benefits.Law, Peter A. Allard School of
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Schmidt, Richard J. "Indigenous competition for control in Bolivia." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Jun%5FSchmidt.pdf.
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Osborne, Tracey, Laurel Bellante, and Nicolena vonHedemann. "Indigenous Peoples and REDD+: A Critical Perspective." Public Political Ecology Lab, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/605561.
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Indigenous Peoples and REDD+: A Critical Perspective / Indigenous Peoples' Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative (IPCCA) / November 2014 / Public Political Ecology LabExecutive Summary: REDD+ stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation in developing countries (REDD) and includes conservation, sustainable forest management and the enhancement of carbon stocks (the +). An international initiative negotiated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), REDD+ has been proposed as a central strategy for mitigating climate change in forests. While advocates highlight the cost effectiveness and social and ecological co-benefits that can be generated through REDD+, many indigenous and forest dependent groups have expressed concerns about the potential effects of projects on their access to land and resources. This report identifies key issues facing indigenous and forest-dependent communities with respect to REDD, and is based on existing academic literature and more current reports by NGOs and indigenous organizations. We first lay out a brief history of REDD+, interrogate its key assumptions, and discuss major issues of concern. We then discuss REDD+ as it relates to indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities. This is followed by a series of case studies of developing countries participating in REDD+. We conclude with a discussion of the principal elements for an alternative vision for REDD+ that takes seriously the rights of indigenous peoples. /
Resumen Ejecutivo REDD+ es acrónimo para Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (Reducir las Emisiones por Deforestación y Degradación de bosques) (en países en desarrollo). Incluye acciones para la conservación, el manejo sustentable de bosques y el aumento en los suministros de carbono (el +). Como una iniciativa internacional negociada bajo el United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (Convención Marco de Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático), REDD+ ha sido propuesto como una estrategia principal para mitigar el cambio climático en bosques. Aunque sus defensores enfatizan la eficacia financiera y los co-beneficios sociales y ecológicos que se pueden generar a través del REDD+, muchos grupos indígenas y de gente quien depende de bosques para su sustento tienen preocupaciones acerca de los posibles efectos de los proyectos sobre el acceso a la tierra y los recursos forestales. Este informe identifica los problemas principales que enfrentan las comunidades indígenas y gente dependiente de bosques con REDD. Está basado en la literatura académica existente y otros reportes actuales escritos por organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONGs) y organizaciones indígenas. Primero proveeremos una historia breve de REDD+, evaluaremos las suposiciones principales y discutiremos los problemas de mayor preocupación. Luego describiremos la relación entre REDD+ y los pueblos indígenas y comunidades dependientes de bosques. Esto será seguido por una colección de casos de estudio en los países en desarrollo que participan en REDD+. Concluiremos con una discusión de los elementos principales para una visión alternativa de REDD+ que toma en cuenta los derechos de los pueblos indígenas.
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Wachira, George Mukundi. "Vindicating indigenous peoples' land rights in Kenya." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01212009-162305/.
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Horton, Chelsea Dawn. ""As ye have faith so shall your powers and blessings be" : the aboriginal-bahá'í encounter in British Columbia /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2093.
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Morgan, R. S. "Self-determination for indigenous peoples : advancing indigenous rights at the United Nations." Thesis, University of Essex, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410237.
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Hamuse, Tiberia Ndanyakukwa Iilonga. "The survival of Cuanhama San communities in Angola." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/11202.
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This study investigated the survival strategies adopted by the San in Cunene Province in Southern Angola. The study intended first to gain understanding of the economic activities that the San in Cuanhama municipality districts of Kafima Centre and Etale La Mulovi employ to sustain their livelihoods. Secondly, the study explored how accessible the basic social services of education and health were to the San in these communities. Utilising qualitative research methods, face-to-face interviews and focus group research were conducted. From the data collected on education the study findings show that none of the children from both communities were enrolled at any school. To this end, at Kafima Centre the main hindering factors that contributed inter alia included hunger at school, stigmatization by the neighbouring community and poverty among San communities. At Etale La Mulavi San community there was lack of educational facilities near the San habitations, constituting a key hindering factor to accessing education. On health, the closer the public health centre was to the San community the more the San utilised the health services for treatment and management of common diseases like Malaria and cough as well as other diseases. On survival strategies both San communities “okunhanga” ‘go.. and look for..’ (fending for food) was the primary survival strategy the San were involved in for the sustenance of their livelihoods. The findings informed the recommendations in chapter five of this study.
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Gruppi, Deoclecio Rocco 1965. "Jogos dos povos indigenas = trajetórias e interlocuções = Indigenous peoples games : trajectory and interlocutions." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/275102.
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Orientador: Maria Beatriz Rocha FerreiraTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Física
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Resumo: O objetivo desta pesquisa é o estudo das figurações e relações de poder imbricadas nos Jogos dos Povos Indígenas (JPIs). E os objetivos específicos da pesquisa são: Identificar e analisar as instituições que constituem os Jogos dos Povos Indígenas; registrar a história de vida dos organizadores: Carlos Justino Terena e Mariano Marcos Terena, idealizadores dos Jogos dos Povos Indígenas; relacionar a influência dos Jogos Escolares Brasileiros na história de vida dos idealizadores dos Jogos dos Povos Indígenas; compreender as relações entre os idealizadores dos JPIs e o Ministério do Esporte; analisar as práticas corporais nos Jogos dos Povos Indígenas no viés das teorias de Norbert Elias, e Pierre Parlebás. Os Jogos dos Povos Indígenas em suas edições têm demonstrado aspectos que os tornam um evento relevante para a sociedade brasileira, como a representação de novas formas de jogar e celebrar. Esses Jogos têm como característica principal a celebração, o encontro, o conhecimento de outros povos e o reencontro com outros, fazendo com que sejam reconhecidos por suas diversidades culturais. As primeiras participações de jovens indígenas nos Jogos Escolares Brasileiros foi um momento significativo para os irmãos Carlos Justino Terena e Mariano Marcos Terena que almejavam a presença indígena nessa competição. A primeira participação indígena nos Jogos Escolares Brasileiros partiu da iniciativa de se levar um arqueiro para distinguir, ou seja, uma outra maneira de demonstrar suas práticas corporais. E é a partir daí que se começa a desenvolver propostas para os Jogos dos Povos Indígenas. A metodologia utilizada neste trabalho é qualitativa. As fontes selecionadas foram obtidas na legislação, em documentos oficiais e no acervo de banco de dados e imagens intitulado "Jogo, Celebração, Memória e Identidade: Reconstrução da Trajetória de Criação, Implementação e Difusão dos Jogos dos Povos Indígenas no Brasil (1996-2009)", que contêm a memória sobre os jogos dos povos indígenas. Esta pesquisa leva em conta a interdisciplinaridade, apoiando-se no conhecimento da Sociologia, Antropologia, Educação Física e História. O presente trabalho está centralizado principalmente nas ações do Comitê Intertribal Ciência e Memória Indígena e o Ministério do Esporte, por serem os principais protagonistas e estabelecerem relações conjuntas e muito próximas na realização dos Jogos dos Povos Indígenas. Para análise de dados e interpretação das fontes foram justapostos documentos, relacionando texto e contexto. Nos Jogos dos Povos Indígenas e nos Jogos Escolares Brasileiros podemos encontrar alguns aspectos comuns, no que diz respeito à organização e fórum de debates, organizações esportivas têm o mesmo formato, como toda forma de competição. Por outro lado nos Jogos dos Povos Indígenas a filosofia é diferente dos Jogos Escolares Brasileiros. As relações do Comitê Intertribal e Ministério do Esporte referente aos Jogos dos Povos Indígenas perpassam pela lógica na organização de um evento esportivo e pelas relações interpessoais. Vale lembrar que os Jogos dos Povos Indígenas propiciaram relações intersetoriais do Ministério do Esporte com outros Ministérios. Nas relações entre os organizadores indígenas e os representantes do Ministério do Esporte há encontros/desencontros nas ações da coordenação dos Jogos dos Povos Indígenas
Abstract: The purpose of this research is the study of figurations and power relationship imbricated in the indigenous peoples games. The specific purposes of this research are: to identify and to analyze the Institutions that constitute the native people games; to register the history of life of the organizers: Carlos Justino Terena and Mariano Marcos Terena, idealizers of the indigenous peoples games; to relate the influency of the Brazilian School Games in the history of life of the idealizers of the native people games; to comprehend the relations between the idealizers of the native people games and the Sport Ministry; to analyze the corporal practices in the native people games in the bias of the theories from Norbert Elias and Pierre Parlebás. The games from native people in their latest edition have shown some aspects which have become a relevant event for the Brazilian society like the representation of new ways of playing and celebrating. These games have as main feature the celebration, the meeting, the knowledge of other people and meeting with the others, so that they can be recognized by their cultural diversity. The first participation of the native young in the Brazilian School Games was a significant moment to the brothers Carlos Justino Terena and Mariano Marcos Terena who aimed the presence of native people in this competition. The first native participation in the Brazilian School Games was from the initiative to take a bowman to distinguish, that is, another way to demonstrate their corporal practices. And from this point on it starts to develop proposals for the indigenous peoples games. The used methodology in this research is qualitative. The selected sources were obtained from the law, in official documents and in the collection of the database and images entitled "Game, Celebration, Memory and Identity: Reconstruction of the creation line, implementation and diffusion of the indigenous peoples games. This research allows the interdisciplinary, through the support of the Sociology, Anthropology, Physical Education and History. This research is centralized mainly in the actions of the "Comitê Intertribal Ciência" and "Memória Indígena" and the Sport Ministry, because they are the protagonists and to establish combined relations and closer to performing the native people games. To data analyses and sources interpretations were juxtaposed documents, relation text and context. In the native people games and in the Brazilian scholar games we can find some common aspects regarding the organization and forum of debates, sportsmanship organization with the same format, as all competition way. By other side, in the native people games, the philosophy is different from the Brazilian Scholar Games. The relations in the "Comitê Intertribal" and Sports Ministry regarding the Brazilian people games pass by the logic of the organization of a sportive event and throughout personal relation. It is worth remembering that the native people games propitiated intersectional relations from the Sport Ministry with other ministries. In the relations between the native people and the Sport Ministry representatives there are ups and downs in the actions of the coordination of the native people games
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Iniguez, Miguel Cortez. "Determining insurrectionary inclinations among indigenous peoples of Ecuador." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2001. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA404731.
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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, Dec., 2001.Thesis advisor(s): Robert E. Looney, Harold A. Trinkunas. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-71). Also available online.
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Panzironi, Francesca. "Indigenous Peoples' Right to Self-determination and Development Policy." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1699.
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Doctor of PhilosophyThis thesis analyses the concept of indigenous peoples’ right to self–determination within the international human rights system and explores viable avenues for the fulfilment of indigenous claims to self–determination through the design, implementation and evaluation of development policies. The thesis argues that development policy plays a crucial role in determining the level of enjoyment of self–determination for indigenous peoples. Development policy can offer an avenue to bypass nation states’ political unwillingness to recognize and promote indigenous peoples’ right to self–determination, when adequate principles and criteria are embedded in the whole policy process. The theoretical foundations of the thesis are drawn from two different areas of scholarship: indigenous human rights discourse and development economics. The indigenous human rights discourse provides the articulation of the debate concerning the concept of indigenous self–determination, whereas development economics is the field within which Amartya Sen’s capability approach is adopted as a theoretical framework of thought to explore the interface between indigenous rights and development policy. Foundational concepts of the capability approach will be adopted to construct a normative system and a practical methodological approach to interpret and implement indigenous peoples’ right to self–determination. In brief, the thesis brings together two bodies of knowledge and amalgamates foundational theoretical underpinnings of both to construct a normative and practical framework. At the normative level, the thesis offers a conceptual apparatus that allows us to identify an indigenous capability rights–based normative framework that encapsulates the essence of the principle of indigenous self–determination. At the practical level, the normative framework enables a methodological approach to indigenous development policies that serves as a vehicle for the fulfilment of indigenous aspirations for self–determination. This thesis analyses Australia’s health policy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as an example to explore the application of the proposed normative and practical framework. The assessment of Australia’s health policy for Indigenous Australians against the proposed normative framework and methodological approach to development policy, allows us to identify a significant vacuum: the omission of Aboriginal traditional medicine in national health policy frameworks and, as a result, the devaluing and relative demise of Aboriginal traditional healing practices and traditional healers.
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Tyakoff, Alexander. "Housing natives in northern regions : a comparative analysis of approaches in Canada, the United States, and the USSR." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31238.
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Using a cross-national comparative approach, this thesis examines the Native housing crisis in the Northwest Territories, Alaska, and northern USSR from 1980 to 1990. The affordability, adequacy, and suitability of public and private sector housing is analyzed, as well as their structural and cultural limitations in a northern context. This study found that many low and moderate-income Natives in these regions are unable to afford expensive market rental housing, are ineligible for government or company accommodation or sheltered in overcrowded public housing. Premised on non-Native values and market assumptions, public and private sector housing is exclusionary and discriminates against a Native way of life, and has created the conditions in which people are polarized based on income and tenure. Given the failure of public and private sector housing to meet the shelter requirements of Natives, this thesis argues that there is a need for community-based housing alternatives.
Housing co-operatives have the potential to increase security of tenure as well as the stock of decent and affordable housing, and to reduce cultural cleavages and socio-tenurial polarization through meaningful social and income-mixing. By responding to Native housing needs in such a culturally-sensitive manner, co-operatives have the potential to reduce dependencies on housing agencies and the private sector by effectively shifting control of housing to the community as a whole. Given the potential of housing co-operatives, however,
this tenure has made relatively few inroads into the Northwest Territories, Alaska, and northern USSR. This study concludes that problems of implementation and affordability, privatism and inertia in housing policy, and a dependency on public and private sector housing have impeded the wider development of northern co-operatives.Applied Science, Faculty of
Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
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Griffin, Rory D. "Indigenous knowledge for sustainable development : case studies of three indigenous tribes of Wisconsin /." Link to full text, 2009. http://epapers.uwsp.edu/thesis/2009/Griffin.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stevens Point, 2009.Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree Master of Science in Natural Resource Management, College of Natural Resources. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 167-176).
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Mainville, Robert. "Compensation in cases of infringement to aboriginal and treaty rights." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30317.
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This paper discusses the legal principles which are relevant in determining the appropriate level of compensation for infringements to aboriginal and treaty rights. This issue has been left open by the Supreme Court of Canada in the seminal case of Delgamuukw. The nature of aboriginal and treaty rights as well as the fiduciary relationship and duties of the Crown are briefly described. The basic constitutional context in which these rights evolve is also discussed, including the federal common law of aboriginal rights and the constitutional position of these rights in Canada. Having set the general context, the paper then reviews the legal principles governing the infringement of aboriginal and treaty rights, including the requirement for just compensation. Reviews of the legal principles applicable to compensation in cases of expropriation and of the experience in the United States in regards to compensation in cases of the taking of aboriginal lands are also carried out. Six basic legal principles relevant for determining appropriate compensation in cases of infringement to aboriginal and treaty rights are then suggested, justified and explained. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Archer, Jennifer Lynne. "Transcending sovereignty : locating Indigenous peoples in transboundary water law." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/40366.
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All people rely upon water for life. Indigenous peoples are especially vulnerable to water conflicts and yet lack recognition in international water law. This thesis adopts Critical Race Theory to examine the intersection between transboundary water law, the doctrine of sovereignty and the international law of Indigenous peoples. The methodology adopted in this thesis includes: (i) a deconstruction of the UN Watercourse Convention and the doctrine of sovereignty; (ii) a review of Indigenous perspectives on sovereignty; and (iii) a proposal for the reconstruction of transboundary water law in a manner that recognizes the internationally affirmed rights of Indigenous peoples.
A deconstruction of the UN Watercourse Convention and related discourse reveals that state-centric approaches to transboundary water law fail to recognize Indigenous peoples’ international rights or the pivotal role that Indigenous peoples’ traditional knowledge might play in transcending conflict. Case examples are provided (Columbia River and Tsangpo-Brahmaputra River) that illustrate the vulnerability of Indigenous peoples in the face of state development agreements. The inequities that exist in international water law are rooted in the historical doctrine of sovereignty which has evolved to subordinate Indigenous peoples’ interests to state interests.
Indigenous perspectives regarding sovereignty provide a counter-point to the dominant legal discourse and weave an alternate narrative that challenges the myth of objectivity and neutrality that surrounds the doctrine of sovereignty and international law generally. Once we recognize that sovereignty is a social construct, we can recognize our collective ability to reconstruct international laws in a manner that transcends the sovereign discourse and recognizes the rights of Indigenous peoples. Endorsement of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is indicative of states’ commitment to recognize Indigenous peoples’ rights throughout the international legal system.
This thesis concludes by offering a proposal for reconstructing transboundary water law through a return to ethics and coalition building. Future reform should be directed towards (a) articulating an international water ethic with the critical engagement of Indigenous peoples; and (b) ensuring that river basin organizations are established on every transboundary river in a manner consistent with this shared international water ethic.
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Kung, Wen-chi. "Indigenous peoples and the press : a study of Taiwan." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1997. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7437.
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Clisby, Suzanne. "Gender issues, indigenous peoples and popular participation in Bolivia." Thesis, University of Hull, 2001. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:8497.
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The following work is the culmination of a research process undertaken between December 1995 and September 1997 in various sites throughout Bolivia. Although the research process itself will be outlined more thoroughly in chapter 4 it would be useful to initially clarify a few key points as to the processes of fieldwork which resulted in the analyses presented in this thesis. The research process can be viewed in three phases. Phase I was undertaken in La Paz and Cochabamba between December 1995 and February 1996 by myself, Professor David Booth, then working at the University of Hull, and Charlotta Widmark representing the University of Stockholm. Phase II was conducted between May and September 1996 and involved a total of 14 Bolivian researchers working in four teams, with myself, Booth and Widmark. During this second phase we conducted fieldwork in four rural areas: the Amazonian region of Moxos, Corque on the Altiplano, Independencia in the High Andes and Puerto Villerroel in the coca-growing region of El Chapare. I worked in each of these areas except Corque on the Altiplano. Both phases I and II were commissioned and funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). Phases I and II aimed to provide an initial appraisal of the process of democratisation in Bolivia, focusing in particular upon: • the coherence and practicality of the institutional reforms (decentralisation and popular participation) given the principal constraints on their operation; • the interpretation of, and responses to, 'democratisation' among women and men in poor communities, including the cultural ramifications and relations to previously existing representative institutions at various levels; • the effectiveness of the changes in improving the position of formerly disempowered groups and social categories, including Amerindian minorities and women; • any positive or negative interactions with objects of government policy and SIDA support, including poverty reduction, gender equality and educational reform; • the possible design of appropriate quantitative or qualitative indicators suitable for monitoring the progress of democratisation at the regional, provincial and community levels in Bolivia, bearing in mind the specific social and cultural conditions of the country. Phase III, the aims of which are outlined below, involved a further eight months of independent research conducted in the urban centre of Cochabamba between February and September, 1997. This was purely doctoral research and was self-funded and which I carried out alone and independently of the SIDA study. The following work is, however, based upon the findings and experiences resulting from all three phases of the research.
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Chen, Shih-Yu. "Representing indigenous peoples of Taiwan : the role of museums." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7801/.
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This thesis situates the issue of representing minority groups in the debate over the role of museum spaces in the contemporary society. In particular, the thesis explores the shifting relationships between the indigenous peoples and the wider Taiwanese society which is considered to be influential in forming indigenous representations. I conducted fieldwork in case-study museums, which are considered to be leading museums that are more resourceful and influential, and places beyond museum spaces, such as local cultural centres, indigenous communities and public occasions. In this thesis, I suggest that indigenous representations cannot be understood without considering the power relationships between the represented subjects and their surrounding parties, for example, colonial history and political changes. Because of the nature of museums, this thesis has shown that although there are limitations of museum representations, museums still play a symbolic role in Taiwanese society. I also expanded my examination of indigenous representations beyond museum spaces. I discovered that compared to museum representations, these representations are more responsive to the needs of both indigenous peoples and their audience. I also argued that although indigenous peoples obtain a greater autonomy in self-representing, internal power relationships and hierarchy also play a critical role in these self-representations.
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Charters, Claire Winfield Ngamihi. "The legitimacy of indigenous peoples' norms under international law." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609841.
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Trapnell, Lucy. "The voices of Indigenous Peoples’ Elders in teacher training." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/112541.
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A lo largo de las últimas décadas se ha venido planteando la necesidad de problematizar la manera como se construye el conocimiento y de poner en evidencia las relaciones entre conocimiento y poder. Una valiosa innovación, que busca abrir la educación superior a la inclusión de nuevos actores y nuevas voces, ha sido la redefinición del equipo formador de algunos institutos superiores pedagógicos y universidades convencionales para incluir conocedores y conocedoras de los pueblos originarios. No obstante, en este artículo argumento que su participación en los procesos de formación docente no necesariamente garantiza el desarrollo de prácticas que hagan evidente la existencia de formas de pensar alternativas al conocimiento hegemónico ni las múltiples formas como se producen. Para que esto ocurra, es necesario tomar conciencia de la compleja relación entre conocimiento y poder, y analizar la forma como esta se expresa en la formación superior y, de manera concreta, en la institución formadora. Sustento este argumento en la experiencia del Programa de Formación de Maestros Bilingües de la Amazonía Peruana (Formabiap), al cual he acompañado a lo largo de los últimos veintinueve años, en mi experiencia directa y en sistematizaciones y evaluaciones internas y externas del programa.During the last decades the need to question the way in which knowledge is constructed as well as its relation with power issues has come forward. An important innovation in some teacher training colleges and conventional universities is the redefinition of the teaching staff. They have included indigenous elders as an attempt to open higher education to the inclusion of new actors and new voices. However, in this article I argue that the participation of indigenous elders in teacher training processes, does not necessarily guarantee the development of practises that will highlight the existence of ways of thinking alternative to hegemonic knowledge nor the multiple ways in which knowledge is produced. For this to happen consciousness must be gained regarding the complex relations between knowledge and power, and the way in which it is expressed in higher education in general and in specific academic spaces. Drawing from the experience of the Teacher Training Programme of the Peruvian Amazon (Formabiap), which I have accompanied during the last 29 years, I sustain my argument with information gained through my direct experience with the Programme and from documents, studies and internal and external evaluations of its process.
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Shih, Chia-Chi. "Participatory mapping with indigenous peoples : from conceptualization to implementation." Connect to resource, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1264522923.
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Bowers, Dan P. "International churches as launching pads for mission to indigenous peoples." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Hogarth, Melitta D. "Addressing the rights of Indigenous peoples in education: A critical analysis of Indigenous education policy." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/118573/1/Melitta_Hogarth_Thesis.pdf.
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For far too long, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' voices have been silenced. This study critically analyses the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Strategy 2015 through the lens of the Coolangatta Statement on Indigenous peoples' rights in Education. Focus is placed on how the Strategy addresses the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in education when seeking to improve the educational attainment of Indigenous primary and secondary students. In turn, the representations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, parents and communities are explored and established.
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Mallow, P. Kreg. "Perceptions of social change among the Krung hilltribe of Northeast Cambodia." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Takeshita, Chikako. "Coordinates of Control: Indigenous Peoples and Knowledges in Bioprospecting Rhetoric." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41439.
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In this thesis, I draw attention to how representations of indigenous peoples and knowledges in the rhetoric of bioprospecting weave the people into multiple coordinates of discursive control. Bioprospecting, or the exploration of biological resources in search of valuable genetic and chemical material for commercial use, is portrayed by proponents as an ideal project which benefit all of its stakeholders. I challenge such perception by exposing the power relationships underlying bioprospecting proposals as well as the various interests built into their rhetoric. My particular interest lies in exploring the implications for indigenous peoples whose appearances in bioprospecting proposals are less than voluntary. I make three claims: (1) that the representation of indigenous peoples as stewards of the environment is a role assigned to them, which is then circulated and mobilized within the bioprospecting rhetoric in order to support its arguments concerning biodiversity conservation; (2) that indigenous knowledges of the environment, of medicinal plants in particular, are taken out of their original socio-cultural contexts, utilized, appropriated, and valorized by bioprospectors who construct the rhetoric; (3) that the visibility of indigenous peoples and knowledges, which was heightened as a result of the increased interest taken in controlling them, opens up new opportunities for the people to resist misappropriation and struggle for self-definition. In short, this project takes indigenous peoples and knowledges as the intersection of forces and interests comprising an intricate web of power relationships, within which any participant can attempt to empower oneself either by resisting or manipulating the control to which one is exposed.Master of Science
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McElwreath, Jennifer L., and n/a. "Can indigenous movements globalise?" University of Otago. Department of Anthropology, 1997. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070530.144243.
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The world�s indigenous peoples have been subjected to exploitation, discrimination, dispossession, relocation, assimilation and in some cases genocide since contact with the Western world. They have been the victims of an invasion which has since secured their position among the lowest social qualifiers. For centuries, they have been ignored by nation-states throughout the world. However, a new dawn has risen for the first peoples of the world, and for the past two decades thaey have experienced a cultural, political and social revival which has been gaining in popularity, intensity and effectiveness since it�s inception.
The politicisation of indigenous movements and their fundamentally local characteristics has occurred at the same time that the world is experiencing a sense of accelerated globalisation. Economic integration through trade agreements has diminished boundaries and has allowed multinational corporations to travel, sell and trade at will. The sense that the world is �one place� has fast become a reality through "the increasing volume and rapidity of the flows of money, goods, people, information, technology and images." (Featherstone, 1995:81)
The simultaneous globalisation and localisation of the world seems to be two contradictory phenomenon acting in opposition to one another. However, as several theorists have pointed out, the two are actually related and each to some degree attributes to the existence of the other (Eriksen, 1993:9; Featherstone, 1990:10; Friedman, 1990:327). In fact, indigenous movements themselves, while asserting local issues and rights, have undergone a recent transformation and now attempt to achieve their goals through global strategies. They have expanded their methods and now not only at the community and national levels, but also within the international arena.
The Maori and the Native Hawaiians are two groups of indigenous peoples who have been fighting for their rights and land for over a century. Both groups represent small percentages of their nation-states� population. This has forced them to pursue their struggle with creative strategies and persistent, patient pressure. Thus, their struggles have undergone continouos transformations in attempts to discover the most effective formula which would eventually cause their respective nation-states to recognise and address their grievances.
Recently, the Maori and the Native Hawaiians, have broadened their movement to incorporate an international tier. Activity on the international level includes international conferences, international visits/exchanges, ratification of indigenous declarations, indigenous networking, and international indigenous solidarity organisations. These activities have increased over the past twenty years as the effectiveness of such activity has also increased. New Zealand, the United States and other nation-states are being held more accountable for past injustices and are being driven to answer to the world�s indigenous community.
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Welford, Gabrielle. "Too many deaths decolonizing Western academic research on indigenous cultures /." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=765883251&SrchMode=1&sid=6&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1208476968&clientId=23440.
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Donoso, María Elena. "The Chilean national identity and the indigenous peoples of Chile." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2004. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1210/.
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This research was prompted by the questions 'What is being Chilean?, Who are tile Chileans? Do all those born in the country feel the same about their nationality and about their fellow nationals? A large number of Chileans will describe their country as culturally and ethnically homogenous, probably because they do not include the native peoples in their description; least of all would they acknowledge that mestizo blood runs in their veins. Therefore, my objective has been to deconstruct the myth homogeneity in the Chilean identity. Moreover, this research, which started as an exploration into tile complex terrain of tile Chilean identity, finally turned into a rather painful soul-searching process. It is obvious that having been born in Chile, it was impossible for me not to become involved, not to feel touched more than once, not to feel guilty more than once. The identities of the indigenous peoples and the descendants of Spanish colonisers have been profoundly transformed during 500 years of social, cultural and political change. Tile rise of the nations states and tile construction of national identities after the wars of Independence were key moments for Latin America, but although no longer tinder colonial rule, the social and cultural differences between 'Indians' and Spaniards continued into the republic, based on the imagined superiority of the Spanish culture, language and religion. Currently Chile, where in recent times - and in the past as well - the military played a crucial role, is in a process of globalisation and reconstruction of the national identity. The research was framed by the understanding that the imagined community of the nation is formed by 'us' and 'them', and a distinction which does not indicate a binary opposition but a complex articulation which both supports and fractures tile nation. In the imagined community of tile Chilean nation identities are multiple and cultures are multiple too. They are constituted in relation to dimensions such as history, place and culture. Geography, in Chile, is also a defining marker of national identity that does not imply inert geography, but an essential dimension in the cultural and social dynamics of tile nation. I challenge the view, long sustained by many Chileans that their country is culturally and ethnically homogeneous. In order to achieve this end I explore the 'skeleton in the cupboard' of the Chilean identity, that is to say, their mestizo origin. With that objective in mind, this research was conceived as a contribution to make Chileans come to terms with the fact that they have some amount of 'Indian' blood in their veins. Only when they are able to take that step, will they be able to appreciate and take pride in the ancient cultures they descend from because in that way they will shed light into that dark comer of their identity. National communities are not only in people's heads or in the imagination of a nation of citizens, but are projected and articulated through channels like the media and educational practice; they are also embodied and practised. From the moment that identity is conceived, not as a fixed ethos formed in a remote past, but as a future project, Chileans great challenge now is to define what they want to be. There may be different projects, alternative proposals and different versions of national identity that will lead on to different roads, but they must include a notion of collective identity that is open to alterity, invention and transgression and also a diversity that Chileans have so far refused to accept.
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Hadari, Abang Azhari. "Under-representation of indigenous peoples in business in Sarawak, Malaysia." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2170.
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The year 1990 not only marks the twenty-seventh year of Sarawak securing her independence within Malaysia, but also signals the ending of the twenty long years of the implementation of an affirmative action called the New Economic Policy. The policy was primarily conceived to provide the indigenous people with a wider opportunity to participate in trade and industry. So far, however, the available statistics do not convince the author that the policy has achieved the desired objective, at least in Sarawak. Scholars are divided on the importance of the influence of culture and structure on the entrepreneurial success or failure of a particular group, and therefore on the varying policy implications produced therefrom. This study explored the problems and entrepreneurial nature of the indigenous businesses in Sarawak, and has shown that their economic backwardness is attributed more to the structural factors than to the cultural ones. This thesis defines its scope through the historical analysis and empirical investigation of the persistent underachievement of the indigenous business as compared to those of other ethnic groups in Sarawak. The study has not only unveiled the problems of Bumiputra small businesses in Sarawak, but has also outlined some policy recommendations. The most important suggestion is broadly the elimination of present inequalities in opportunities and the advancement of preferential measures for the indigenous business. So far, to the best of the author's knowledge, there has been a notable absence of a study of this kind in Sarawak, and this work appears to be the first of its kind. Because of its importance, it is therefore hoped that it will spur further academic interest in the area.
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Benavides, Margarita. "Extractive industries, indigenous peoples protest and consultation inthe Peruvian Amazon." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/79278.
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Este artículo analiza la evolución de la tenencia de recursos en laAmazonía peruana y la relaciona con la protesta indígena de losaños 2008 y 2009. A través de este análisis, se plantea que existendos visiones de desarrollo contrapuestas: la del gobierno y el grancapital por un lado, y la de los pueblos indígenas por el otro. Si biendurante la protesta el gobierno reprimió desproporcionadamentea los indígenas especialmente en Bagua, con lamentables cruentosresultados, el derecho de los pueblos indígenas a la consulta, basadoen el Convenio 169 de la OIT, quedó colocado en el debate nacional.Sin embargo, el gobierno ha mostrado gran resistencia parareconocerlo, pues esta consulta implicaría una serie de restriccionessocioambientales a la forma en que se desarrollan las industriasextractivas y las grandes obras de infraestructura en la Amazonía.Se sostiene que el conflicto continuará si no se desarrollan políticaspúblicas en favor de los pueblos indígenas. Para que estas se dense requiere, a su vez, de una visión diferente de desarrollo desde elEstado y el Gobierno.El análisis de la tenencia de recursos en la Amazonía se basaprincipalmente en información del Sistema de Información sobreComunidades Nativas, base de datos georreferenciada manejada porel Instituto del Bien Común. Asimismo, el artículo basa su análisisen bibliografía secundaria y en el seguimiento a los acontecimientospor la autora, como especialista en el tema.This article analyzes the evolution of the natural resources tenure inthe Peruvian Amazon, and its relation with the indigenous protest ofthe years 2008 and 2009. The authoress argue that during the indigenousprotest aroused two opposite visions of development: the visionof the government supporting the big capital interests in one side,and the vision of the indigenous peoples defending their territoriesas a source of their material and identity survival. Nevertheless, theAwajún and Wampis suffered the disproportional repression of thegovernment in Bagua, with bloody results, the main four decreesthat were in the origin of the protest, because they threatened thejuridical security of indigenous peoples territories were derogated,and the indigenous peoples right to be consulted, established by theConvention 169 of the International Law Organization, was placed inthe center of the national debate. Nevertheless, the government hasresisted its application, because these consultations would imply aseries of socio environmental conditionings to the extractive industriesand the big scale infrastructure constructions. The authoresssustains that the conflict will continue if public policies in favor ofindigenous peoples would not be developed. For the establishmentof these public policies another vision of development is requiredfrom the State and government.
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Howlett, Catherine. "Indigenous Peoples and Mining Negotiations: The Role of the State." Thesis, Griffith University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365989.
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Resource development is often presented as a panacea for the problems endemic within Indigenous communities, particularly those remote Indigenous communities with few other options for economic opportunities. However, research to date suggests that the benefits from mineral development are often not realised by Indigenous people, and that the negative impacts can be unmitigated and substantial. One way Indigenous people can minimise the negative impacts and maximise the benefits of mineral development is through equitable participation in the negotiations for development of the mineral deposit. The negotiation period thus represents a critical period for Indigenous peoples.
States play a critical role in determining the negotiating environments in which mineral development takes place via their control of the institutional and legislative frameworks that govern mineral development. States thus play a significant role in determining outcomes for Indigenous people from mineral development processes. Despite this, there is a conspicuous absence of any recent indepth interrogations of the role of the state in mineral negotiations involving Indigenous people in Australia, a gap this study seeks to address.
The legislative and institutional frameworks governing the relationship between mineral development and Indigenous people were significantly altered during the 1990s in Australia when the High Court handed down the historic Mabo decision, which recognised that Indigenous people had rights to land that preceded the acquisition of sovereignty by the British in 1788. This study presents a case study of mineral negotiations that occurred during that transformative period in Australian history: the Century Zinc negotiations.
The study scrutinises the behaviour of the state during these negotiations, employing qualitative research methods such as indepth, semi structured interviews and documentary sources, and establishes a rich empirical base from which it tests three theories that contain potential, yet disparate, explanations of the state’s behaviour. Acknowledging the need for a composite theoretical approach because of the different levels of analysis within this study, policy network theory is employed as a lens to focus the analysis at the meso level of this particular policymaking process. This analysis is then used as a platform from which the most appropriate macro theoretical explanation of the state’s behaviour is determined. This study is thus explicitly theory testing. The findings from this study confirm the critical links between the levels of analysis in policymaking processes and the dialectical interaction between structure and agency at all levels of policy making. The study therefore makes a considered contribution to the literature on the political economy of mineral development in Australia. It also augments the information available to Indigenous people about the mineral negotiation process, information that can hopefully be used to improve the outcomes from future negotiations processes in which they may be involved.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department of Politics and Public Policy
Griffith Business School
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Fernández, Ruiz José Manuel. "Indigenous peoples and immigrants : the multicultural challenge of criminal law." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/9107/.
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This thesis is the conclusion of doctoral research that pursued to examine whether indigenous peoples’ demands for access to their cultural practices can be accommodated within criminal law. In a globalised context in which states become increasingly multicultural this question raises fear of social fragmentation and the anxiety for achieving unity. Certainly, Rwanda and Kosovo evidence that claims to access culturally diverse practices may lead to war or even genocide. The context of the thesis is a more benign form of response to these claims: accommodation. While accommodation in general has received great attention from scholars (Kymlicka 1989, Gutmann et al 1994, Tully 1995), within criminal law the only focus has been cultural defences (Renteln 2004, Kymlicka et al 2014). However, little research has been conducted to understand the broader implications of this phenomenon for both the accommodated and the accommodating. The research aims to shed light on these broader implications of accommodation by exploring it within criminal law. Certainly, the simplicity and individualised nature of cultural defence conceals what is at stake for both the accommodated and the accommodating. Specifically, it conceals how criminal law cannot be responsive to the claims of minorities because it seeks to maintain the practices of the constitutional order of which criminal law is part. The result is that the claims of indigenous peoples cannot be accommodated. In order to uncover these implications, the research employs social holism (Pettit 1998) to develop a broader understanding of criminal law as a socio-cultural practice, which enables an adequate description and assessment of the diversity of claims to recognition that minorities make to the state of which they are part. In broadening the view the claims of minorities become linked to their position within the constitutional order (Tully 1995), and then the question arises as to whether minorities have been unjustly excluded or included (Lindahl 2013) in that order, which may lead to recognise a new plurality of responses that the state and its criminal law should provide to them. By broadening the understanding of criminal law it is enabled an adequate framework for the assessment of the phenomenon of accommodation. Certainly, this is necessary for claims to access diverse cultural and social practices to be met with justice, for the state’s responses need to be sensitive to the diversity of claims put forward by minorities, without overlooking that the state as well need to access its particular social and cultural practices.
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Antunes, Victoria Villela Nunes. "Are multilateral development banks protecting indigenous peoples? A comparative analysis." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/24317.
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This thesis compares the stand-alone safeguard policies for indigenous peoples provided by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, in order to propose an indigenous peoples policy for the African Development Bank. It starts by exposing which are indigenous peoples’ rights and how different authors perceive the main document that protects such rights – the United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Subsequently, it discusses which is the role of Multilateral Development Bank in terms of protecting human rights, in order to understand, through a legal point of view, how the responsibilities of such institutions are regarded. Later, the indigenous peoples safeguard policies applied by the 3 above mentioned Banks are compared within them, in order to analyze each of the topics provided by the documents and understand their similarities and differences. The inputs provided by the interviewees are highly constructive to understand some of the weaknesses incorporated not only in the policies, but in some of the Banks’ mechanisms and processes. Some of the weaknesses in the safeguards compliance and the gaps between the written policies and their implementation are also exposed. Finally, this thesis develops a proposal for a standalone indigenous peoples policy for the African Development Bank.
Essa tese compara as políticas de salvaguarda independentes para povos indígenas estabelecidas pelo Banco Mundial, Banco Asiático de Desenvolvimento e Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento, a fim de sugerir uma política dedicada aos povos indígenas para o Banco Africano de Desenvolvimento. Inicialmente, são expostos quais são os direitos dos povos indígenas e como diferentes autores interpretam o principal documento que protege tais direitos - a Declaração das Nações Unidas sobre os Direitos dos Povos Indígenas. Posteriormente, discute qual é o papel dos Banco Multilaterais de Desenvolvimento em termos de proteção aos direitos humanos, a fim de entender, de um ponto de vista legal, como são consideradas as responsabilidades de tais instituições. Em seguida, as políticas de salvaguardas dos povos indígenas aplicadas pelos 3 Bancos citados acima são comparadas entre si, a fim de analisar cada um dos tópicos fornecidos pelos documentos e entender suas semelhanças e diferenças. As contribuições fornecidas pelos entrevistados são valiosas para entender algumas das fraquezas incorporadas não apenas nas políticas, mas em alguns mecanismos e processos dos Bancos. Alguns problemas no cumprimento das salvaguardas e as lacunas entre as políticas escritas e sua implementação também estão expostas. Finalmente, uma sugestão para uma política independente de povos indígenas para o Banco Africano de Desenvolvimento é desenvolvida.
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Chowdhury, Khairul English Media & Performing Arts Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "Empowering and disempowering indigenes : staging Aboriginal experience." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. English, Media, & Performing Arts, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/41107.
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This study offers an exploration of the drama which contains Aboriginal people's effort to attain a visible reality based on cultural and political rights. It is also a deeper understanding of the empowering and disempowering Indigenes in the discursive domain as well as in the existential reality. Though the study considers a large number of playtexts written by the Indigenous playwrights from 1970s to the present, it explores playtexts written by non-Indigenous playwrights as well. Here, the chief concern is to explore the discursive features of the texts, the items both linguistic and dramatic that tend to place or exclude Aboriginal people from discourses. Such a consideration may very well go beyond the periodic consideration of the plays. The Aboriginal theatre movement started in the 1970s serves as the complete reconceptualisation of Aboriginality in terms of centering Aboriginal Identity and culture in the dominant discursive domain. Such an intervention may involve the recovery of Aboriginal history from the dominant history of Australia and infusing positive attributes to Indigenes' identity. It also provides force in their existential reality. Freed from submission to the dominant's prescription, the drama appears as an alternative formula, but a rigorously vibrant medium of contestation in which history, identity, culture, politics and reality are endlessly expressive and persuasive. Keeping with the need to expose the complexity of the process of empowering and disempowering Indigenes, I read the discursive strategies employed in a selection of playtexts. The empowering drama adds dignity to Aboriginal people's gesture of friendship and goodwill and contrasts with the representation of aggressive colonial one. The drama exposes the encounter between negative and positive features in the representation of Aboriginality, thereby suggesting fighting against the authoritative design involves the representation of Indigenes in their terms. The most significant element the empowering drama contributes is its ability to capture the experience of the struggle of Indigenes to survive since colonisation. Aboriginal drama focuses more on the strategies to unsettle the dominant system than on the social order and the context. The final paradox is the act of inclusion and exclusion of Indigenes to/from the dominant theatrical discourses that indicate a fine line between empowerment and disempowerment.
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Stilwell, Carolyn Anne. "Conflict and conflict resolution in Bolivia." Online access for everyone, 2007. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2007/C_Stilwell_042707.pdf.
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Doherty, Michael P. "Aboriginal dominion in Canada." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=233439.
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In much of Canada, Aboriginal rights – including land rights – were never extinguished by treaty, and presumptively continue to exist. Jurisprudence has established that in Aboriginal groups' traditional territories, they will have Aboriginal title – the right to exclusive use and occupation - in those areas where they can demonstrate both occupation and exclusivity at the date of the assertion of Crown sovereignty, and that they will have hunting and fishing rights in areas where they can demonstrate occupation but not exclusivity. This leaves open the question of what right they have in areas where they can demonstrate exclusivity but not occupation. This thesis argues for the existence in such areas of a right that has not previously been recognized in Canada, namely a right to prohibit resource use or extraction. This right – here termed “Aboriginal dominion” – is argued to be analogous to a negative easement in European property law systems. Even drawing such an analogy, however, requires a level of analysis that has been lacking with regard to Aboriginal property rights in Canada, since courts have insisted that such rights are sui generis, unique. This insistence is here called into question, and an approach that analyzes property rights as being responsive to the needs of human beings in particular times and places is urged instead. To the extent that such analysis results in the recognition of new Aboriginal rights, including Aboriginal dominion, it may help to bring Canada in line with international norms, as embodied in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and other instruments, and may contribute to achievement of the ultimate goal of Canadian Aboriginal law: reconciliation.
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Saturno, Lourdes Silvana. "DAY OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE. PERFORMING INDIGENEITY IN VENEZUELA." OpenSIUC, 2018. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2278.
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In this thesis, I explore the ways by which two indigenous peoples represent themselves in the context of national politics in Venezuela during the so-called Bolivarian Revolution. In particular, I offer an anthropological understanding of bodily practices and visual elements that the Wayúu and the Pume peoples use to index their indigenous identities in the context of televised meetings to commemorate the Day of Indigenous Resistance in Venezuela. In order to do so, I follow the theoretical approach proposed by Graham and Penny (2014) in which performances of indigeneity are understood as actions that (1) are representations of local and traditional performances that are historically and culturally contingent and (2) involve a creative process that connects local realities with national and global political agendas. Likewise, I draw on current anthropological understandings on the concepts of authenticity and folklorization. The data used to carry out this research was the footage of television programs that the Venezuelan state TV channel (Venezolana de Televisión) broadcasts every October 12 from 2002 to the present, as well as ethnohistorical information about the aforementioned indigenous peoples. Due to their particular socio-historical processes, as well as their current situation, the Wayúu and the Pume peoples have shaped the images of indigeneity at different levels. On the one hand, the Wayúu people have become iconic within the images of indigeneity shaped in the national political arena. On the other hand, the Pume people have been fairly absent in national politics. When present, they have performed their most important ritual – the tõhe –, a ritual that according to themselves is the ultimate expression of their identity as a group.
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Toha, Kurnia. "The struggle over land rights : a study of indigenous property rights in Indonesia /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9627.
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Turner, Dale A. (Dale Antony) 1960. ""This is not a peace pipe" : towards an understanding of aboriginal sovereignty." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35637.
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This dissertation attempts to show that Aboriginal peoples' ways of thinking have not been recognized by early colonial European political thinkers. I begin with an examination of Kymlicka's political theory of minority rights and show that, although Kymlicka is a strong advocate of the right of Aboriginal self-government in Canada, he fails to consider Aboriginal ways of thinking within his own political system. From an Aboriginal perspective this is not surprising. However, I claim that Kymlicka opens the conceptual space for the inclusion of Aboriginal voices. The notion of "incorporation" means that Aboriginal peoples became included in the Canadian state and in this process their Aboriginal sovereignty was extinguished. Aboriginal peoples question the legitimacy of such a claim. A consequence of the Canadian government unilaterally asserting its sovereignty over Aboriginal peoples is that Aboriginal ways of thinking are not recognized as valuable within the legal and political discourse of sovereignty. In chapters two through five, respectively, I examine the Valladolid debate of 1550 between the Spanish monk Bartolome de Las Casas and Juan Sepulveda, The Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois Confederacy, Thomas Hobbes's distinction between the state of nature and a civil society, and Alexis de Tocqueville's account of democracy in America. Each of the examples, except for The Great Law of Peace, generate a philosophical dialogue that includes judgments about Aboriginal peoples. However, none of these European thinkers considers the possibility that Aboriginal voices could play a valuable role in shaping their political thought. To show the value of an Aboriginal exemplar of political thinking I consider the Iroquois Great Law of Peace. The Iroquois view of political sovereignty respects the diversity of voices found within a political relationship. This was put into practice and enforced in early colonial northeast America until the power dynamic shifted betwe
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Searcy, Naryn. "Integrating Indigenous and Eurocentric pedagogy within the English First Peoples curriculum." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58149.
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This study focuses on the incorporation of Aboriginal content and pedagogy into
senior level academic secondary school courses with students of both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal ancestry within the English First Peoples curriculum. The results reveal the positive relationship between Indigenous approaches, student engagement, and academic performance as well as challenges and tensions resulting from the merging of diverse educational perspectives. Both theoretical support for the use of Indigenous pedagogy as well as practical classroom examples are described. These findings have the potential to support educators as we move towards increased collective understanding of the necessity of the acknowledgement of Indigenous culture and perspectives both within our public education system and society as a whole.Education, Faculty of (Okanagan)
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Massey, Rise M. "The world council of indigenous peoples : an analysis of political protest." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26559.
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In response to an almost universal perception on the part of aboriginal peoples of the injustice done to them by the intrusion and take-over of their territories by immigrant-dominated societies, a number of indigenous peoples' groups have arisen on the international scene. One such transnational non-governmental organization is the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. The objects of this thesis are to recount the conditions that precipitated the need for a transnational indigenous peoples support group, to chronicle the formation and work of the WCIP, and to evaluate the organization in terms of why it has (or has not) been a success and in terms of the extent of its success.
Success is herein measured in relation to the responses to WCIP activities of its three primary target groups -individual national governments, international bodies (particularly the United Nations), and its own support base, the indigenous peoples of the world. Four questions are posed with respect to these groups: Have there been policy shifts or concessions granted by national governments that are directly attributable to WCIP activities? Have bodies such as the United Nations adjusted their programmes and polices to coincide with WCIP demands? Has the WCIP succeeded in encouraging the mobilization of indigenous support for indigenous causes; has it affected the emergence and consolidation of indigenous political activity? To what extent has the WCIP succeeded in effecting changes in the political, economic, and social conditions of the peoples it seeks to benefit?
The 'elements of success1 employed in this study to analyze the WCIP's potential for effectively eliciting responses from its target groups have been adapted from various case studies of national, transnational, and international pressure groups and were chosen because of their relevance to the World Council's experience: they accurately indicate the reasons for the WCIP's successes and failures. The elements are: the purposes and goals of the organization, the structure and internal dynamics of the organization, the consolidation of a support base, the organization's legitimacy, the degree of factionalism within the organization, the amount and source of the organization's funding, the use of self-appraisal, the nature of the targets of the organization, and the selected tactics of the organization.
Examination of the WCIP's work suggests that its chief success has been in mobilizing its own support base. While the World Council has influenced its other targets to a limited extent in specific situations, has brought about increased awareness of social and political injustice towards native peoples, and has gained support for its activities from influential quarters, so far there have been few if any fundamental, widespread, substantive changes in the attitudes and policies of national elites and of officials of international governmental organizations towards social, economic, and political relations with indigenous peoples that are obviously the result of WCIP activities. This is primarily due to the radical nature of certain WCIP goals, which demand a fundamental shift in the attitudes of state governments and international society in general; to recognize indigenous peoples as nations with rights to self-determination might mean an altered international order. Such a challenge to established authority is not likely to meet with immediate success. Still, the World Council's work constitutes a necessary first step; in ensuring the existence of an ongoing support base with a shared purpose, it has created a platform from which the challenge to governments to alter their stance towards indigenous peoples may someday succeed, for reasons of expediency if not morality.Arts, Faculty of
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Venne, Sharon Helen. "Our elders understand our rights, evolving international law regarding indigenous peoples." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq21232.pdf.
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Bojosi, Kealeboga N. "International law, colonialism and the concept of indigenous peoples in Africa." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.571607.
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This thesis draws on the conventional narrative that the concept of indigenous peoples developed within the context of the colonial encounter and that the norms that developed within that context aimed at regulating the relations between colonial settlers and the indigenous peoples. However, the thesis argues that international law, guided by colonial imperatives, developed parallel principles and norms to regulate relations between colonial settlers and the natives in different contexts. In territories marked unsuitable for permanent and extensive European settlement, trusteeship and eventual decolonisation were prescribed. Whilst the international law rhetoric of trusteeship putatively applied to all indigenous peoples, in reality the indigenous peoples in territories marked suitable for permanent European settlement were decidedly excluded from the practical implementation of this doctrine, from the West Africa Berlin Conference through to the Trusteeship Council of the UN. This would receive international juridical imprimatur through the so-called saltwater thesis. This exclusion became the conceptual pivot of the emergent international indigenous peoples' movement aimed at rectifying the obvious anomaly of the selective decolonisation process. The thesis further argues that the contemporary norms of international law on indigenous peoples developed within this context to regulate specific socio-economic, political and historical contexts. Furthermore, it contends that the perceived indigenous peoples' problematique in Africa is partly a broader post-colonial manifestation of the manner in which international law sought to manage the colonial encounter in Africa through the creation of pseudo-European political, economic and social institutions and policies that presently exist. The thesis deconstructs the conceptual basis for the application of the concept of indigenous peoples in post-colonial Africa and argues that a less controversial approach is to focus on the norms within the African Charter on Human Peoples' Rights and general international law that do not depend on the flawed conceptual assumptions of indigenous peoples.
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Abidin, Handa Satyanugraha. "REDD-plus and the protection of indigenous peoples under international law." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25863.
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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) regime has been developing a voluntary climate change mitigation mechanism that is called ‘Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries; and the Role of Conservation/Conservation of Forest Carbon Stocks, Sustainable Management of Forests, and Enhancement of Forest Carbon Stocks in Developing Countries’ (REDD-plus). One of the most important aspects of the implementation of REDD-plus activities is that the activities should not violate the rights of indigenous peoples that live within and near the forest areas. This research has identified at least three main approaches that can be used by indigenous peoples to protect their rights in the context of REDD-plus. The first approach is the UNFCCC approach that uses the UNFCCC regime to protect indigenous peoples in the context of REDD-plus. The second approach is the human rights approach; it uses human rights treaties and their bodies, the regional commissions and courts on human rights, as well as the UN bodies and special rapporteur that are pertinent to indigenous peoples’ issues to protect indigenous peoples in the context of REDD-plus. The third approach is the financial approach that uses the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD Programme) and the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) to protect indigenous peoples in the context of REDD-plus. In order to increase the protection of indigenous peoples in REDD-plus, a coherent approach needs to be created and enhanced through cooperation and coordination by the parties that are directly or indirectly involved with the three respective approaches listed above. It should be noted that the available protection for indigenous peoples in the context of REDD-plus are currently insufficient to quickly address cases where the rights of indigenous peoples have been violated in REDD-plus activities. In order to address this insufficiency, as well as to achieve a coherent approach to protecting indigenous peoples in the context of REDD-plus, the research recommends the establishment of a REDD-Plus Committee supported by a REDD-Plus Panel to develop and increase the protection of indigenous peoples in REDD-plus, should REDD-plus is placed outside the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). On the other hand, if REDD-plus is placed under the CDM then the research recommends the establishment of a Committee on REDD-Plus under the CDM and a Panel on the CDM. The existence of the pertinent committee and panel can be expected to bring benefits in the context of REDD-plus as well as in wider contexts, such as climate change, human rights, and international law through its contribution to reduce the risks of the negative effects of the fragmentation of international law.