140396 SE Indigenous Movements in Latin America in a Global Perspective (2012S)

This course explores the intersections of Globalisation, Europeanisation and indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples may not be numerically significant, but their rising strength as new political actors has catapulted indigenous peoples’ politics to the centre of the global stage. Indigenous survival, resistance and mobilisation have deep historical roots in the experience of conquest, European colonialism and state formation after independence. The course is organised around the analysis of indigenous peoples: First, as victims of European colonialism, second, as new political actors in the most Europeanised world regions (the Americas and South Pacific) and third, as a new global movement. The course focuses on the transformative capacity of the indigenous movements both in the (post-)settler societies of Canada, United States, Australia and Aotearoa/ New Zealand as well as the plurinational societies of Mexico and Bolivia. All themes we will discuss in a comparative perspective.