Journal article
Searching for certainty in purity: Indigenous fundamentalism
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol.20(1), pp.10-25
2014
Abstract
Indigenous resistance to colonial hegemony developed as one based on a politics of difference. This strategic construction of difference relied on the notion of culture to establish a discursive space to articulate the political demands of the subjugated Indigenous minority. This article interrogates the less liberatory impulses of such political constructions of identity and culture. I contend that indigenous responses to colonization that are based on a politics of difference have the potential to, and in particular instances do, invoke the notion of culture and identity as an oppressive site of authority in a way that is, in practice, fundamentalist.
Details
- Title
- Searching for certainty in purity: Indigenous fundamentalism
- Authors/Creators
- B. Hill (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol.20(1), pp.10-25
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Identifiers
- 991005542784607891
- Copyright
- © 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Kulbardi Aboriginal Centre
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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