The biopolitics of resilient indigeneity and the radical gamble of resistance

Lindroth, Marjo; Sinevaara-Niskanen, Heidi

doi:10.1080/21693293.2015.1094243

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“…As we have detailed in our previous work (Lindroth & Sinevaara-Niskanen, 2016, the discussion of resilience has carved out a special position for indigenous peoples and the persistently adaptive subjectivity that indigeneity is presumed to represent. The unpredictability of the rapidly changing world has sparked a growing recognition of and interest in the peoples' capacities to endure, adapt and persevere.…”

Section: Global Search For Endurancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The scholars' work shows influences of classic postcolonial theorists such as Fanon (2017), Mbembe (2001) and Spivak (1999) but also draws critical attention to the specificity of indigeneity within the histories of colonialism. Although the criticism of contemporary native studies has touched upon the nuanced ways in which colonial relations unfold, the global emergence of resilient indigeneity has largely eluded researchers' gaze (for notable exceptions see Lindroth & Sinevaara-Niskanen, 2016.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Colonialism invigorated? The manufacture of resilient indigeneity

Lindroth

Sinevaara-Niskanen

2019

Resilience

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Amid and unpredictable change globally, indigenous peoples are frequently referred to as prime examples of resilience. The peoples' proven track record of persevering and ability to adapt have attracted attention worldwide. Previously deemed in need of 'development', the peoples are being called upon to provide what is now an invaluable contribution. Resilience holds out a promise of a (better) future for us all, and for the peoples suggests a greater role in impacting the future. This article dissects the promise of change engendered through the call for indigenous resilience. By drawing on critical discussions on adaptation, indigeneity and contemporary colonialism, it offers an account of the ways in which resilience cements time-tried expectations that indigenous peoples always adapt. Even though the international community would have us believe that colonial practices are a thing of the past, this article argues that the global call for indigenous resilience signals a resurgence of those practices.

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Section: Global Search For Endurancementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Colonialism invigorated? The manufacture of resilient indigeneity

Lindroth

Sinevaara-Niskanen

2019

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“…This happens also because the prospect of independence of Greenland seems to actually overcome the doubts that regard the granting of greater autonomy to the territories of traditional settlement of the indigenous peoples, for example, in relation to the autonomy of Nunavut in Canada (see above, in paragraph 4) and on the basis of the addresses of the so-called post-positivist research on decolonization (Körber & Volquardsen, 2014;Rud, 2014;Joncas, 2015). Such doubts concern the possibility that the territorial autonomies are nothing more, in these cases, than post-colonial structures whose function is to ensure-according to the criteria of rationality and legal certainty of the Western Legal Tradition-the control of development and, above all, of the exploitation of natural resources of the territories themselves (Rodon, 2014b;Lindroth & Sinevaara-Niskanen, 2015;Reinert & Benjaminsen, 2015;Tuori, 2015).…”

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The Prospects of Independence for Greenland, between Energy Resources and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (with Some Comparative Remarks on Nunavut, Canada)

Mazza

2015

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In a comparative view of the Arctic, Greenland is the only autonomous territory that has the possibility of legally reaching the status of full independence. The funding of the increasing autonomy and, ultimately, of the independence of Greenland is acquired largely from the revenues of mining operations and, more generally, from the exploitation of natural energy sources. However, one must consider the special conditions of the indigenous Inuit, torn between the desire to participate in the development of the Arctic regions, with the related socioeconomic benefits, and the willingness not to abandon the traditional lifestyles that are the basis of their indigenous culture.

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“…In effect, the last decade has witnessed an increasing fracture in the resilience debate opposing what many scholars view as top-down biopolitical dynamics to bottom-up critical conceptualisations of resilience (Lindroth & Sinevaara-Niskanen, 2016). Critical scholarship, echoing Michel Foucault's governmentality thesis, has sufficiently elaborated on the neoliberal orientation of current resilience thinking.…”

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Rethinking the time and space of resilience beyond the West: an example of the post-colonial border

Wandji

2019

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Critical resilience thinking is excessively fixated on resilience as participating in a neoliberal rationality of governance, while being itself shackled to the restrictive assumptions of crisis-oriented and disaster-based understandings of resilient systems. This paper contributes to the literature on the necessity to expand epistemological approaches to resilience thinking. It suggests that, as a silent disruption, the postcolonial border offers an insight into the overlooked complex materiality of resilience. The advocated notion of silent disruption is supported by an empirical examination of the African postcolonial border as a site of contested practices. The focus on disruptions rather than resilient practices weakens the theoretical foundations of the plurality claim advanced within critical resilience scholarship. The paper mainly contends that, by localising and politicising 'disruption' from an empirical perspective, we broaden out the concept of resilience to accommodate effective plurality as entangled in the interstice between the historical, the global and the national.

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The biopolitics of resilient indigeneity and the radical gamble of resistance

Cited by 18 publications

References 29 publications

Colonialism invigorated? The manufacture of resilient indigeneity

Colonialism invigorated? The manufacture of resilient indigeneity

The Prospects of Independence for Greenland, between Energy Resources and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (with Some Comparative Remarks on Nunavut, Canada)

Rethinking the time and space of resilience beyond the West: an example of the post-colonial border

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