Theorizing Native Studies by Audra Simpson (English) Paperback Book

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Includes essays that demonstrate how Native studies can productively engage with others seeking to dismantle and decolonize the settler state, including scholars putting theory to use in critical ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, and postcolonial studies.

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This important collection makes a compelling argument for the importance of theory in Native studies. Within the field, there has been understandable suspicion of theory stemming both from concerns about urgent political issues needing to take precedence over theoretical speculations and from hostility toward theory as an inherently Western, imperialist epistemology. The editors of Theorizing Native Studies take these concerns as the ground for recasting theoretical endeavors as attempts to identify the larger institutional and political structures that enable racism, inequities, and the displacement of indigenous peoples. They emphasize the need for Native people to be recognized as legitimate theorists and for the theoretical work happening outside the academy, in Native activist groups and communities, to be acknowledged. Many of the essays demonstrate how Native studies can productively engage with others seeking to dismantle and decolonize the settler state, including scholars putting theory to use in critical ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, and postcolonial studies. Taken together, the essays demonstrate how theory can serve as a decolonizing practice.Contributors. Christopher Bracken, Glen Coulthard, Mishuana Goeman, Dian Million, Scott Morgensen, Robert Nichols, Vera Palmer, Mark Rifkin, Audra Simpson, Andrea Smith, Teresia Teaiwa

Author Biography

Andrea Smith is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Native Americans and the Christian Right, published by Duke University Press, and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide.Audra Simpson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life across the Borders of Settler States, also published by Duke University Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Audra Simpson and Andrea Smith 1 1. There Is a River in Me: Theory from Life / Dian Million 31 2. The Ancestors We Get to Choose: White Influences I Won't Deny / Teresia Teaiwa 43 3. From Wards of the State to Subjects of Recognition? Marx, Indigenous Peoples, and the Politics of Dispossession in Denendeh / Glen Coulthard 56 4. Contract and Usurpation: Enfranchisement and Racial Governance in Settler-Colonial Contexts / Robert Nichols 99 5. "In This Separation": The Noncorrespondence of Joseph Johnson / Christopher Bracken 122 6. Making Peoples into Populations: The Racial Limits of Tribal Sovereignty / Mark Rifkin 149 7. Indigenous Transnationalism and the AIDS Pandemic: Challenging Settler Colonialism within Global Health Governance / Scott Lauria Morgensen 188 8. Native Studies at the Horizon of Death: Theorizing Ethnographic Entrapment and Settler Self-Reflexivity / Andrea Smith 207 9. Disrupting a Settler-Colonial Grammar of Place: The Visual Memoir of Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie / Mishuana R. Goeman 235 10. The Devil in the Details: Controverting an American Indian Conversion Narrative / Vera B. Palmer 266 Bibliography 297 Contributors 321 Index 323

Review

"Theorizing Native Studies is a superb collection, an astutely conceived and targeted intervention in Native studies. The introduction is a gem and the essays cohere remarkably well around the core issue it raises: how to move beyond the unproductive opposition between European theory and Native practice, and to do so in ways that reflect and reproduce the particularities of Native epistemologies." - Patrick Wolfe, author of Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology "With Theorizing Native Studies, Audra Simpson and Andrea Smith release Native studies from the old conventional dichotomies that organize prevailing conceptions of knowledge, such as theory/practice and subject/object. This collection gives us a taste of the disruptive force of a theory that begins and stays with the demand from the dismantling of State-Capital and everything that stems from it. A necessary weapon for a critical arsenal that faces the challenge of remaining relevant within and against the neoliberal university." - Denise Ferreira da Silva, author of Toward a Global Idea of Race

Review Quote

"With Theorizing Native Studies , Audra Simpson and Andrea Smith release Native studies from the old conventional dichotomies that organize prevailing conceptions of knowledge, such as theory/practice and subject/object. This collection gives us a taste of the disruptive force of a theory that begins and stays with the demand from the dismantling of State-Capital and everything that stems from it. A necessary weapon for a critical arsenal that faces the challenge of remaining relevant within and against the neoliberal university."

Details ISBN0822356791 Short Title THEORIZING NATIVE STUDIES Publisher Duke University Press Language English ISBN-10 0822356791 ISBN-13 9780822356790 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2014 Author Andrea Smith Publication Date 2014-05-30 Pages 352 Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Edited by Andrea Smith Illustrations 5 photographs Birth 1969 UK Release Date 2014-05-30 AU Release Date 2014-05-30 NZ Release Date 2014-05-30 US Release Date 2014-05-30 DEWEY 305.8 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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