Indigeneity
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Indigeneity as Social Construct and Political Tool
Author: Benjamin Gregg
language: en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date: 2025-12-29
Indigeneity as Social Construct and Political Tool shows that indigeneity is neither a static identity nor a vestige of the past but a dynamic and evolving framework capable of shaping the future through political imagination, technological innovation, and environmental stewardship. While indigenous identity is often perceived as fixed, natural, or objective, political theorist Benjamin Gregg reconceptualizes it as a practice —a social construct that, when critically examined and strategically reconstructed, functions as a powerful political tool. Through this lens, Indigenous communities can reclaim history, assert sovereignty, influence technological futures, and exercise environmental leadership. Indigeneity then is not merely a category of analysis but a generative proposition for the twenty-first century: a capacity to reimagine politics, equity, empowerment, and resilience, alongside ecological responsibility on a globally interconnected scale. Gregg not only establishes this theoretical foundation by reinterpreting classical thinkers such as Vitoria and Rousseau but also illuminates the tangible potentials and real-world impacts that emerge at the intersection of modern science and Indigenous experience.
Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia
How do videos, movies and documentaries dedicated to indigenous communities transform the media landscape of South Asia? Based on extensive original research, this book examines how in South Asia popular music videos, activist political clips, movies and documentaries about, by and for indigenous communities take on radically new significances. Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia shows how in the portrayal of indigenous groups by both ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ imaginations of indigeneity and nation become increasingly interlinked. Indigenous groups, typically marginal to the nation, are at the same time part of mainstream polities and cultures. Drawing on perspectives from media studies and visual anthropology, this book compares and contrasts the situation in South Asia with indigeneity globally. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives (CC-BY-ND) 4.0 license.
Biopolitics of Indigeneity. Indigenous people in neoliberal states
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Sociology - Politics, Majorities, Minorities, , language: English, abstract: This essay shows that indigenous people are not recognised enough and suffer from neo-colonial measures. It will pick up Merlan’s (2009) applied definition of Rowse for "recognition": It is the organized representation of population, land, and customary law. Not all indigenous peoples are marginalized, though, and progress in terms of recognition has been made. The ontogenesis of indigenous movements was favoured by the establishment of legal acts in the wake of minority rights after the Second World War, and since then there is an overall bias towards improvement.