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Indigenous
Peoples Specialty Group |
Title: | The Colonial Present III: Changes in the Land | ||||||||||
Description: | This third session on the "Colonial Present" will focus on the transformation of land use and landholdings. The first paper aims to enrich theorizations of Canada and Canadian identity by introducing new questions about the intersections of race, nature, and nation. It will examine recent proposals to transform land tenure and governance on Native reserves in Canada. These proposals look to manage the heightened claims for Aboriginal self-determination by incorporating First Nations into white society as neoliberal, sovereign subjects. The second paper will examine land fractionation on Indian reservations in the United States, which has created a myriad of problems for these tribes, including uncertainty of regulatory jurisdiction of lands to impediments to economic development. The third paper seeks to describe how certain household characteristics, particularly socio-political relations and ethnicity, influence how livelihood transitions unfold among indigenous peoples and migrants at Ulugan Bay, Palawan Island, in the Philippines. And the final paper examines Indigenous practices of land allocation and land subdivision among the Chiga of Kigezi in Southwest Uganda are changing as a result of demographic pressure in the form of growing numbers from high natural fertility coupled with migrant influx from neighboring Rwanda on the one hand and the impact of HIV AIDS on the Chiga society on the other. | ||||||||||
Anticipated Attendance: | 100 | ||||||||||
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Sponsorships: | Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group |