Recognition Versus Self-Determination

Avigail Eisenberg is a professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria. Jeremy Webber is Dean of Law and Canada Research Chair in Law and Society at the University of Victoria. Glen Coulthard is a member of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation and is an assistant professor in the First Nations Studies Program and the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Andrée Boisselle is an assistant professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.Contributors: Yasmeen Abu-Laban, François Boucher, Kirsty Gover, Courtney Jung, Rinku Lamba, Zoran Oklopcic, Ghislain Otis, Michel Seymour, Jakeet Singh, and Melissa S. Williams.

• PrefaceIntroduction: On the Use and Abuse of Recognition in Politics / Melissa S. WilliamsPart 1: Recognition and Self-Determination: Connections and Tensions1 Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the History of Mexican Indigenous Politics / Courtney Jung2 Recognition and Self-Determination: Approaches from Above and Below / Jakeet Singh3 Two Faces of State Power / Rinku LambaPart 2: The Practice of Recognition and Misrecognition, Self-Determination, and Imposition4 A Farewell to Rhetorical Arms? Unravelling the Self-Determination of Peoples / Zoran Oklopcic5 The Politics of Recognition and Misrecognition and the Case of Muslim Canadians / Yasmeen Abu-Laban6 Place against Empire: The Dene Nation, Land Claims, and the Politics of Recognition in the North / Glen Coulthard7 The Rights of Indigenous Peoples to Self-Determination and the Struggle against Cultural Appropriation / Francois Boucher8 Inter-Indigenous Recognition and the Cultural Production of Indigeneity in the Western Settler States / Kirsty GoverPart 3: Possible Ways of Reframing the Issues9 Recognition, Politics of Difference, and the Institutional Identity of Peoples / Michel Seymour10 Custom and Indigenous Self-Determination: Reflections on "Post-Territoriality" / Ghislain Otis11 The Generosity of Toleration / Jeremy Webber12 Self-Determination versus Recognition: Lessons and Conclusions / Avigail EisenbergIndex