The indigenous space and marginalized peoples in the United Nations
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The indigenous space and marginalized peoples in the United Nations. / Dahl, Jens.
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 298 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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TY - BOOK
T1 - The indigenous space and marginalized peoples in the United Nations
AU - Dahl, Jens
N1 - eBook 9781137280541
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - For more than 20 years, Jens Dahl has observed and now analyzed how a relatively independent space, the Indigenous Space, has been constructed within the confines of the United Nations. In the UN, indigenous peoples have achieved more than any other group of people, minorities included. The book traces this to the ability of indigenous peoples to create consensus among themselves; the establishment of an indigenous caucus; and the construction of a global indigenousness in a continuously developing process in which contentious relationships and symbols have been constructed, reformulated, negotiated and re-negotiated internally and with the states. In this process 'indigenous peoples' developed as a category and an evolving concept. Dahl looks into the ability of different indigenous representatives to make an impact on the UN processes and use achievements for purposes at home. Combining an historical overview and first-hand account of the indigenous involvement with the UN with an analysis of global indigenous identity as a relativist and constructed term rather than a positivist definitional concept, Dahl addresses how indigenous peoples have implemented the UN achievements at home.
AB - For more than 20 years, Jens Dahl has observed and now analyzed how a relatively independent space, the Indigenous Space, has been constructed within the confines of the United Nations. In the UN, indigenous peoples have achieved more than any other group of people, minorities included. The book traces this to the ability of indigenous peoples to create consensus among themselves; the establishment of an indigenous caucus; and the construction of a global indigenousness in a continuously developing process in which contentious relationships and symbols have been constructed, reformulated, negotiated and re-negotiated internally and with the states. In this process 'indigenous peoples' developed as a category and an evolving concept. Dahl looks into the ability of different indigenous representatives to make an impact on the UN processes and use achievements for purposes at home. Combining an historical overview and first-hand account of the indigenous involvement with the UN with an analysis of global indigenous identity as a relativist and constructed term rather than a positivist definitional concept, Dahl addresses how indigenous peoples have implemented the UN achievements at home.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Indigenous peoples
KW - Civil rights
KW - Government relations
KW - Politics and government
KW - Human rights
KW - United Nations
KW - Social & cultural anthropology
KW - ethnography
M3 - Book
SN - 978–1–137–28053–4
BT - The indigenous space and marginalized peoples in the United Nations
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Basingstoke
ER -
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