Indigenousness in Africa [electronic resource] : A Contested Legal Framework for Empowerment of 'Marginalized' Communities /
Ndahinda, Felix Mukwiza.author.
Following the internationalisation of the indigenous rights movement, a growing number of African hunter-gatherers, pastoralists and other communities have adopted indigenousness in claiming special legal protection. Their legal claims as the indigenous peoples of Africa are backed by many international actors such as indigenous rights activists, donors and scholars. However, indigenous identification is resisted by many African governments, some community members and some anthropologists. Felix Mukwiza Ndahinda explores the sources of indigenous identification in Africa and its legal and political implications. Noting the limitations of systematic and discursive, as opposed to activist, studies, it questions the appropriateness of this framework in efforts aimed at empowering claimant communities in inherently multiethnic African countries and adopts an interdisciplinary approach in order to capture the indigenous rights phenomenon in Africa.
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Indigenousness in Africa; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Indigenous Identity in Africa; 1.1...Roy Sesana, the Basarwa and Central Kalahari Game Reserve Case; 1.2...Researching Indigenous Rights in Africa; 1.3...Research Approach and Scope; References; Part I Indigenous Claims in Africa Under Global Perspective; 2 Overview of Narratives on Indigenousness; 2.1...Introduction; 2.2...'Indigenous' Claims and Labels Under Historical Perspective; 2.2.1 Notion; 2.2.2 Some Figures on the Global Indigenous Population; 2.2.3 Indigenousness as a Dynamic Concept
2.2.3.1 The Importance of the Martinez Cobo Reports in Conceptualization of Indigenousness2.2.3.2 Insight into Historical Perception and Usage of the 'Indigenous' Attribute; The Genesis of International Indigenism; Challenges of Conceptualizing indigenousness Beyond the Americas and Australasia; 2.2.3.3 Post-Martinez Cobo Reconceptualization of Indigenousness; 2.3...Indigenousness and Related Concepts; 2.3.1 Revisiting the Differentiation between Indigenousness and Minority Status; 2.3.2 Indigenousness, Multiculturalism and Other Forms of Cultural Relativism
2.4...Disciplinary and Ideological Perspective on Indigenous Peoples' Rights2.4.1 Re-thinking Differences Under Various Disciplines; 2.4.2 Human Security and Victimological Insights in Discourses on Indigenous Rights; 2.4.3 Indigenousness and the 'Individual Versus Group Rights' Debate; 2.5...Concluding Remarks; References; 3 Contextual Application of Indigenousness in Africa; 3.1...Introduction; 3.2...The Rise of Indigenous Claims and Activism in Africa; 3.3...Situational Characteristics of Claimant Groups; 3.3.1 Multiethnic Composition of African States
3.3.2 General Characteristics of Claimant Indigenous Groups3.3.2.1 Hunter-Gatherers; 3.3.2.2 Indigenization of Pastoralists; 3.3.2.3 Small-Scale Farmers and Challenges of Subjective Identification; 3.4...Indigenous Peoples or Marginalized Minorities?; 3.4.1 Heated Discourses over Identity Claims in Africa; 3.4.2 Minority, Indigenous, Local Communities or Threatened Peoples ?; 3.4.2.1 Political Strategies or Immutable Identities?; 3.4.2.2 Indigenous Basters and Boers?; 3.5...Constitutionalizing Indigenousness in African Nation-States
3.5.1 Constitutional accommodation of National Cultural Diversity3.5.2 Equivocal Status of Indigenous Claims in Some Constitutional Orders; 3.5.2.1 Limited Forms of Recognition; 3.5.2.2 Indigenousness and Transnational Identities; 3.6...Conclusion; References; Part II International and Regional Legal Position of Claimant African Indigenous Peoples; 4 International Legal Framework and Indigenous Claims in Africa; 4.1...Introduction; 4.2...Normative Protection of Indigenous Peoples Under International Instruments; 4.2.1 General Instruments and Indigenous Peoples
4.2.1.1 Non-Discrimination, Right to Equality and Indigenous Peoples
Includes bibliographical references.
Following the internationalisation of the indigenous rights movement, a growing number of African hunter-gatherers, pastoralists and other communities have adopted indigenousness in claiming special legal protection. Their legal claims as the indigenous peoples of Africa are backed by many international actors such as indigenous rights activists, donors and scholars. However, indigenous identification is resisted by many African governments, some community members and some anthropologists. Felix Mukwiza Ndahinda explores the sources of indigenous identification in Africa and its legal and political implications. Noting the limitations of systematic and discursive, as opposed to activist, studies, it questions the appropriateness of this framework in efforts aimed at empowering claimant communities in inherently multiethnic African countries and adopts an interdisciplinary approach in order to capture the indigenous rights phenomenon in Africa.
Human rights.
Human Rights.