The Politics of Indigenous Identity: An Introductory Commentary

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Notes

1. Tania Murray Li, “Articulating Indigenous Identity in Indonesia: Resource Politics and the Tribal Slot,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 42(1): 149 (2000).

2. Hilary N. Weaver, “Indigenous Identity: What Is It And Who Really Has It?,” The American Indian Quarterly 25(2): 240 (2001).

3. Jeff J. Corntassel, “Who is Indigenous?: ‘Peoplehood’ and Ethnonationalist Approaches to Rearticulating Indigenous Identity,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 9(1): 75 (2003).

4. Ibid.

5. For an extensive critique, see Stephanie Lawson, Culture and Context in World Politics (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

6. Courtney Jung, The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 221; see also Carolijn Terwindt, “A Review of ‘The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas,’” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 16(3–4): 513–15 (2010).

7. This is alluded to in O’Sullivan's contribution (this volume) but is spelled out in greater detail in Stephanie Lawson, “Indigenous Nationalism, ‘Ethnic Democracy’ and the Prospects for a Liberal Constitutional Order in Fiji,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 18(3): 293–315 (2012).

8. See http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/indigenous/declaration.htm (accessed 8 Dec. 2013).