Political Science 590STA - Indigenous Resistance/Americas

Over the past four decades, Indigenous peoples have emerged as key actors in challenging and reshaping the law and politics of the Americas. Through grassroots organization, legal activism and innovative methods of political organization, mobilization, and theorizing indigenous groups and thinkers in Americas have fought against their dispossession from ancestral lands, exploitation of natural resources, violence, genocide, and countless other old and new modes of colonization to reshaping local, national, and global politics. This course centers on this struggle and examines the history, law, and politics framing Indigenous struggles in North, Central, and South America. It deals with the political and theoretical issues implicated in these struggles and alternate philosophies of decolonization, anti-imperialism, nature and environmental justice emerging from these struggles.

Open to Graduate students only. Undergraduate students who wish to enroll in this course may contact the instructor for permission.