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- Indigenous People in Africa: Contestations, Empowerment and Group Rights
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Africa Institute of South Africa
summary
This volume is an attempt to provide this intersectional and reflexive space. The thinking behind the book began in Lamu in mid-2010. It was a time when growing community resistance emerged towards the Kenyan governmentís plan to build a second seaport under a trans-frontier infrastructural project known as the Lamu Port- South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET). The editors agreed that a book that draws community activists, academics, researchers and policy makers into a discussion of the predicament of indigenous rights and development against the backdrop of the Endorois case was timely and needed. Assembled here are the original contributions of some of the leading contemporary thinkers in the area of indigenous and human rights in Africa. The book is an interdisciplinary effort with the single purpose of thinking through indigenous rights after the Endorois case but it is not a singular laudatory remark on indigenous life in Africa. The discussion begins by framing indigenous rights and claims to indigeneity as found in the Endorois decision and its related socio-political history. Subsequent chapters provide deeper contextual analysis by evaluating the tense relationship between indigenous peoples and the post-colonial nation-state. Overall, the book makes a peering and provocative contribution to the relational interests between state policies and the developmental intersections of indigeneity, indigenous rights, gender advocacy, environmental conservation, chronic trauma and transitional justice.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- p. vii
- About the Editors
- p. viii
- Introduction
- pp. x-xvi
- 7. A challenging nexus
- pp. 124-148
- 8. The past is never just in the past
- pp. 149-168
- 9. Conclusion
- pp. 169-176
Additional Information
ISBN
9780798304672
Related ISBN(s)
9780798304641
MARC Record
OCLC
883820211
Pages
194
Launched on MUSE
2014-07-16
Language
English
Open Access
No