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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09 Mar 2023 | Philipp Schorch & Ruben Darío Chambi
Book launch and signing of cooperation agreement at UPEA in El Alto, Bolivia
On 2 March 2023, Juliane Müller presented her book "El comercio popular globalizado. Mercado, reciprocidad ...
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15 Feb 2023 | Ruben Darío Chambi & Guido Alejo Mamani
Alasita: La feria aymara de las aspiraciones
Enero es un mes de intensa actividad en los talleres artesanales de las ciudades de El Alto y La Paz...
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24 Jan 2023 | Vilsoni Hereniko
Best Animation Short of the Year at Los Angeles Indie Short Fest
A true story: Eight women from Santa Rosa wanted to see a movie set on their home island of Rotuma. And so they got in their cars...