Indigeneities in the 21st century
Sixteen years after the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, Indigenous stakeholders act as global players in arenas such as the UN Convention on Climate Change, the Dakota Access pipeline in the USA, and the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. Yet, until the 1960s, anthropological inquiries considered the same people as ‘vanishing’ and doomed to disappear.
The so-called Indigenous renaissance presents a remarkable phenomenon of late (post)modernity. How can this surprising process be understood and explained? The objective of this project is to study how Indigenous actors evolved from ‘vanishing people’ to global players. The project is located at the disciplinary intersections between anthropology, art, history, philosophy, and politics; and aims at making a future-oriented contribution to (re)emerging Indigeneities and the (re)negotiation of their (post)colonial legacies in and with Europe.
Blog
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24 Jan 2023 | Vilsoni Hereniko
Best Animation Short of the Year at Los Angeles Indie Short Fest
"SINA MA TINIRAU just won another award! Congrats to the team who worked on this gem of a movie set in Rotuma in Fiji...
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17 Dec 2022 | Safua Akeli Amaama, Annika Sippel & Philipp Schorch
Sāmoan Multiplicities in Sāmoa: Reflections on our field trip
In early November, Safua Akeli Amaama, Annika Sippel, and Philipp Schorch spent a week together in Apia, Sāmoa...
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29 Nov 2022 | Luisa Marten
Burden or opportunity? Discussion on ‘ethnographic collections’ in German institutions
14 November 2022. The lecture room at the Münchner Volkshochschule (Munich adult education centre) was filled and...