The workshop seeks to explore whether this alleged progress has marked a significant change in the ways in which indigenous subjectivity is perceived. What are the links between claims to push forward the status and rights of indigenous peoples, and the interpellation of indigeneity in terms of adaptation, endurance and persistence?

The workshop "Indigeneity and the Promise of Inclusion" will take place at the University of Westminster. Among other scholars, the workshops convenors, Professor David Chandler from University of Westminster and postdoctoral researchers Marjo Lindroth and Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen from University of Lapland will present their research on resilience, indigeneity and knowledge. Lindroth and Sinevaara-Niskanen have jointly studied indigenous peoples in international politics, especially in terms of environmental agency and the demand for adaptation and resilience.

The three-year project "Indigeneity in Waiting: Elusive Rights and the Power of Hope" (2016–2018) is led by Professor Julian Reid, Faculty of Social Sciences, and it employs postdoctoral researchers Marjo Lindroth from the Arctic Centre and Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen from the Unit for Gender Studies. The project views legal and institutional advances concerning indigenous peoples, and the promise of such advances, as an integral part of politics today. The research project problematises the promise of progress in indigenous issues and argues it has engendered a new form of power that operates specifically through hope. Questions of rights, hope and indigeneity are studied in three contexts: Australia, Finland and Greenland.


Further information:

Professor Julian Reid
julian.reid (at) ulapland.fi

Postdoctoral researcher Marjo Lindroth
marjo.lindroth (at) ulapland.fi

Postdoctoral researcher Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen
heidi.sinevaara-niskanen(at) ulapland.fi

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