Indigeneities in the 21st century
Seventeen 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
-
20 Jul 2024 | Ruben Darío Chambi, Daniela Franco Pinto & Guido Alejo Mamani
Futurismos Aymara: Reconstituyendo antiguos pasados para imaginar una ciudad, El Alto
El futurismo indígena es un movimiento cultural a través del cual los actores indígenas cuestionan las formas hegemónica...
-
03 Jun 2024 | Diego Muñoz
The treaty and the flag: Misunderstandings about the cession of sovereignty on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
While studying the oral traditions of the Chilean annexation of Rapa Nui, I was surprised by the role played by some material...
-
02 May 2024 | Luisa Marten
Komplexe Zeichen – Erwin Stresemann lässt sich tätowieren
Erwin Stresemann war einer der bekanntesten Ornithologen Deutschlands – weniger bekannt ist die Geschichte seiner Tätowierung.