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A Call for Attention to Indigenous Capitalisms

New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry

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Title A Call for Attention to Indigenous Capitalisms
 
Creator Bunten, Alexis Celeste
 
Subject Indigenous Studies, Anthropology
Indigenous, Capitalism, Corporations, Self-Determination, Indigenous studies
 
Description Indigenous Capitalisms are rooted in local concepts of wealth, accumulation and distribution, but they must operate within current global markets. Indigenous Capitalisms reflect Indigenous peoples’ shifting political relationships to settler colonial states and the supranational organizations that drive international policy. As such, articulations of Indigenous Capitalisms can be measured as indices of self-determination, demonstrating to the world that Indigenous political entities engaging in global commerce will likely not simply dissolve into a multi-cultural body politic. Future research in this area should offer new ways of understanding the ties between economic issues and Indigenous lives, challenging existing stereotypes about Indigenous peoples’ stakes in the global economy contributing to the growing discipline of Indigenous Studies.
 
Publisher New Proposals Publishing Society
 
Contributor The Ford Foundation, Toihuarewa Visiting Fellowship University of Victoria
 
Date 2011-11-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
research-article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/2271
 
Source New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry; Vol 5, No 1 (2011): Capitalism and Indigenous Peoples; 60-71
1715-6718
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/2271/2268
 
Coverage US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia
1960s-Present
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