Karena Shaw – författare

Indigeneity and Political Theory engages some of the profound challenges totraditions of modern political theory that have been posed over the past twodecades. Karena Shaw is especially concerned with practices of sovereigntyas they are embedded in and shape Indigenous politics, and responses toIndigenous politics.Drawing on theories of post-coloniality, feminism, globalization, andinternational politics, and using examples of contemporary political practiceincluding court cases and specific controversies, Shaw seeks to illustrate andargue for a way of doing political theory that is more responsive to thechallenges posed by a range of contemporary issues.An engaging and highly original analysis of Indigenenity and sovereignty,this book enables the reader to develop a more robust consideration ofrelationships between theory and practice, and thus the politics of theorizing.

Indigeneity and Political Theory engages some of the profound challenges totraditions of modern political theory that have been posed over the past twodecades. Karena Shaw is especially concerned with practices of sovereigntyas they are embedded in and shape Indigenous politics, and responses toIndigenous politics.Drawing on theories of post-coloniality, feminism, globalization, andinternational politics, and using examples of contemporary political practiceincluding court cases and specific controversies, Shaw seeks to illustrate andargue for a way of doing political theory that is more responsive to thechallenges posed by a range of contemporary issues.An engaging and highly original analysis of Indigenenity and sovereignty,this book enables the reader to develop a more robust consideration ofrelationships between theory and practice, and thus the politics of theorizing.

An innovative look at the convergence of global trends and local struggles in this out-of-the-way place.On the remote outer coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Clayoquot Sound might seem to be situated at the periphery of contemporary power and authority. And yet, as the disputed land of native peoples and the contentious site of corporate logging in one of the world’s last remaining temperate rain forests, Clayoquot Sound is also squarely in the middle of global politics today. These authors develop a new way of making sense of the rapidly changing character of political life in our day, revealing the political problems and possibilities inherent in the convergence of the global and the local so dramatically enacted in Clayoquot Sound.Contributors: Umeek of Ahousaht (E. Richard Atleo), Malaspina U College, British Columbia; William Chaloupka, U of Montana; Thom Kuehls, Weber State U; Timothy W. Luke, Virginia Polytechnic; R. Michael M’Gonigle, U of Victoria; Catriona Sandilands, York U, Toronto; Gary C. Shaw, California State U, Stanislaus; R. B. J. Walker, Keele U, UK; Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College and CUNY.rights: CAN