2011
DOI: 10.1017/s0008423911000126
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From Indigenous Economies to Market-Based Self-Governance: A Feminist Political Economy Analysis

Abstract: Abstract.This paper examines the apparent contradiction between the current tendency of many Indigenous groups and their political institutions to embrace the capitalist economic model as the one and only solution in establishing contemporary Indigenous self-governance, on the one hand, and on the other, the detrimental force of the market economy on Indigenous societies, past and present. The starting point is the following question. If the global market economy historically played a significant role in the l… Show more

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“…This may well be obvious to IBPOC faculty, but it is clearly not obvious to those representing workers in universities and colleges, otherwise it would be raised at bargaining tables. This is despite the connections made by Black radical intellectuals on 'racial capitalism' (such as Cox 1948;Robinson 1983), as well as Black feminists, Indigenous feminists, and other critical race scholars (such as Day 2016;Kuokkanen 2011;Lorde 1984;Maynard 2017) who have also been critical of the connections between race, capital, and gender. And yet, capital and race still tend to be treated as isolated, silo issues.…”
Section: Why Is Racism a Workload Issue?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This may well be obvious to IBPOC faculty, but it is clearly not obvious to those representing workers in universities and colleges, otherwise it would be raised at bargaining tables. This is despite the connections made by Black radical intellectuals on 'racial capitalism' (such as Cox 1948;Robinson 1983), as well as Black feminists, Indigenous feminists, and other critical race scholars (such as Day 2016;Kuokkanen 2011;Lorde 1984;Maynard 2017) who have also been critical of the connections between race, capital, and gender. And yet, capital and race still tend to be treated as isolated, silo issues.…”
Section: Why Is Racism a Workload Issue?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…À leurs yeux, l'une des conséquences les plus importantes des politiques impériales sur la situation des femmes et des sociétés indigènes a été ni plus ni moins que le « renversement des sociétés gynocentriques par des modèles patriarcaux » (Stewart-Harawira (2007 : 133)). Suivant cette dernière, les tactiques de gouvernance coloniale auraient contribué à l'édification d'une société hiérarchique fondée sur le genre et la race en retirant aux femmes autochtones un pouvoir et une autorité qu'elles avaient autrefois, sort qui équivaut, selon certaines auteures, à celui des paysannes européennes du Moyen Âge (Federici 2014;Kuokkanen 2007aKuokkanen et 2011voir aussi Anderson (2000)). L'influence de ces politiques sur les sociétés indigènes marque la déstructuration des systèmes éthiques et politiques traditionnellement plus égalitaires et entraîne du même coup l'internalisation des processus coloniaux, et un certain effet d'absorption du modèle occidental chrétien par les communautés indigènes partout dans le monde.…”
Section: Le Colonialisme Et Le Patriarcat D'étatunclassified
“…Kuokkanen (2011b p230) suggests that subsistence is thus positioned as a threat to capitalism as it acts instead as a "sign of independence, self-sufficiency, and self-reliance." Consistent with Povinelli's (2011) argument, Kuokkanen (2011b) argues that those forms of economy that do not bolster capitalist relations are viewed in a neoliberal paradigm as a threat to the security of the economy, and therefore to the stability of the state. Here we see the important ways in which neoliberalism, and partnerships with extractive industries, contribute to a reformulation of the discourses of development in the North, and the pressures in navigating between subsistence landbased ontologies and neoliberal engagement with the wage economy.…”
Section: Neoliberalism and Development In Indigenous Communitiesmentioning
confidence: 74%
“…Dictating the terms of development to focus on an engagement with the wage economy is congruent with a long history of federal paternalistic policies seeking to turn Inuit into good capitalist subjects (Bonesteel 2008). Northern development policies have historically been shaped by a linear discourse of development focused on transferring Inuit from subsistence practices, that were seen as backwards, into the wage economy where they might meaningfully contribute to capitalist production (Kuokkanen 2011a Subsistence economies therefore inform relationships to the land in ways that cement family networks, social relations, and ground Inuit epistemologies in those relations (Kuokkanen 2011b).…”
Section: The Push For Prioritiesmentioning
confidence: 99%