NDLI: The Imperative of Indigeneity: Indigenous Human Rights and their Limits

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Mende, Janne
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	The legal and normative openness of human rights allows for the integration of new subjects, arenas, violators, and protectors of human rights. Indigenous movements manage to use this flexibility and implement their claims within the human rights system. Yet, indigenous rights cause manifold discussions and ambiguities, all of which are related to the question of the concept of indigeneity. In spite of the endeavor for pragmatic and flexible approaches, scopes and implications of concepts of indigeneity need to be dealt with. This paper discusses both scope and implications, starting from hegemonic criteria for a working definition of indigeneity. It shows how indigenous identity is inextricably linked to its non-indigenous other. Subsequently, indigenous human rights entail specific repercussions in indigeneity being a resource and an imperative. Those repercussions stem from indigeneity being simultaneously a source and target of indigenous human rights claims and from the self-referential duplication of the right to indigeneity for indigenes, respectively. The provided tools for an analysis of the ambiguities of indigenous human rights (without simply dismissing them) contribute to their further and more just development, implementation, and monitoring.
Starting Page	221
Ending Page	238
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15248879
Journal	Human Rights Review
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	18746306
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-07-05
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Indigenous rights Human rights Identity Culture Essentialism Group rights Human Rights Political Science Philosophy of Law Public International Law International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict International Criminal Law
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Law

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