Sheryl R Lightfoot
Biographic Data
| ID | 4085599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheryl R Lightfoot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheryl R |
| FAMILY NAME | Lightfoot |
| SIGNATURE | LIGHTFOOT S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4164-713X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Are Indigenous conceptions of sovereignty as non-interference patriarchal
In the field of International Relations, sovereignty refers to a state’s authority to govern itself without external interference, closely tied to the principle of non-intervention. Recent scholarship has illuminated sovereignty as socially constructed and dynamic, yet non-interference remains central to its conception. Catherine MacKinnon’s feminist critique exposes the patriarchal implications of fetishising non-interference, silencing marginal…
Handbook of Indigenous Public Policy
This ground-breaking Handbook explores the key legal, political and policy questions concerning the implementation of Indigenous rights across the world. Expert contributors analyse the complex dynamics of contestation, engagement, advocacy and refusal between governments and Indigenous Peoples, presenting a profound challenge to mainstream policy scholarship.
Indigenous Peoples and Borders
Rhetoric and Settler Inertia: Strategies of Canadian Decolonization by Patrick Belanger, and: Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission by …
Reviewed by: Rhetoric and Settler Inertia: Strategies of Canadian Decolonization by Patrick Belanger, and: Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Dylan Robinson and Keavy Martin, and: Research & Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing through Indigenous Relationships by Shawn Wilson, Andrea V. Breen and Lindsay Dupré Sheryl Lightfoot (bio) Rhetoric and Settler Inertia: Strategi…
Trading justice for peace? Reframing reconciliation in TRC processes in South Africa, Canada and Nordic countries
Conflict in its various manifestations continues to be a defining feature in many places throughout the world. In an attempt to address such conflict, various forms of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) have been introduced to facilitate the transition from social conflict to a new dispensation. The introduction and subsequent proceedings of TRCs in South Africa, Canada and Norway are widely regarded as good examples of this approach. Ag…
Decolonizing Self-Determination: Haudenosaunee Passports and Negotiated Sovereignty
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) recognises both Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination and simultaneously offers protections in regard to states’ right to sovereignty and territorial integrity vis-à-vis Indigenous peoples’ claims. Often, this is considered an internal inconsistency of the UNDRIP, and another common critique is that Indigenous peoples were only recognised as having a diminished …
Hokkaidō 150: Settler colonialism and Indigeneity in modern Japan and beyond
This roundtable presents the proceedings of the “Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Modern Japan and Beyond” workshop held at the University of British Columbia in March 2019. The sesquicentennial of Japanese settler colonization of the northern island of Hokkaidō or Ainu Mosir received only scant attention either in Japan or around the world. The goal of this roundtable is to reinsert settler colonialism into modern Japanese hi…
A Promise Too Far? The Justin Trudeau Government and Indigenous Rights
Global Indigenous Politics: A subtle revolution
This book examines how Indigenous peoples’ rights and Indigenous rights movements represent an important and often overlooked shift in international politics - a shift that powerful states are actively resisting in a multitude of ways. While Indigenous peoples are often dismissed as marginal non-state actors, this book argues that far from insignificant, global Indigenous politics is potentially forging major changes in the international system, …
Settler-State Apologies to Indigenous Peoples: A Normative Framework and Comparative Assessment
DURING THE PAST TWO DECADES, an increasing number of states have issued official apologies to Indigenous peoples. The first wave of state apologies to Indigenous peoples began in 1991 when Canada’s assistant deputy minister for Indian affairs offered what may have been the first governmental apology to Indigenous peoples, and the first of three apologies Canada has offered for its century-long Indian Residential Schools program that removed Indig…
Selective endorsement without intent to implement: Indigenous rights and the Anglosphere
In human rights commitment theory, state commitments to international regimes are generally interrogated as a binary calculation – either a state commits to a rights regime or it does not. This binary remains the dominant standard largely because existing scholarship focuses on state ratification of human rights treaties. However, when the analysis of state commitment is opened up to include human rights instruments other than treaties (e.g. huma…
Emerging international indigenous rights norms and ‘over-compliance’ in New Zealand and Canada
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples now represents the minimum international standard on indigenous rights. A qualitative analysis of state responses to this emerging indigenous rights regime produces some curious results, including state compliance, non-compliance, under-compliance, partial compliance, and also a pattern of ‘over-compliance’ in indigenous rights. Over-compliance, a counter-intuitive behaviour in international …
Forced Federalism: Contemporary Challenges to Indigenous Nationhood
Throughout the history of the United States, federal policy towards indigenous nations has been characterized by particular policy eras. These eras have shifted at important historical junctures, o
Indigenous Rights in International Politics: The Case of “Overcompliant” Liberal States
An overcompliant state is one that paradoxically takes actions that recognize specific rights or a category of rights that go beyond or even against that state's international human rights treaty obligations or its normative international commitments. Since there is no existing IR literature that would explain why a state might paradoxically comply or “overcomply” with its stated commitments, there is also no theory to explain what would propel a…
Oaths of Office in Tribal Constitutions: Swearing Allegiance, but to Whom
Oaths of Office in Tribal ConstitutionsSwearing Allegiance, but to Whom? David E. Wilkins (bio) and Sheryl Lightfoot (bio) Indigenous nations inhabiting the lands now known as North America were, by definition, the original sovereign political entities and have existed for untold millennia. Each Native nation, whether a small fishing village in the Northwest, an agricultural community in the Southwest, or a hunting nation of the Great Plains, dev…
Decolonizing Self-Determination: Haudenosaunee Passports and Negotiated Sovereignty
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) recognises both Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination and simultaneously offers protections in regard to states’ right to sovereignty and territorial integrity vis-à-vis Indigenous peoples’ claims. Often, this is considered an internal inconsistency of the UNDRIP, and another common critique is that Indigenous peoples were only recognised as having a diminished …
Selective endorsement without intent to implement: Indigenous rights and the Anglosphere
In human rights commitment theory, state commitments to international regimes are generally interrogated as a binary calculation – either a state commits to a rights regime or it does not. This binary remains the dominant standard largely because existing scholarship focuses on state ratification of human rights treaties. However, when the analysis of state commitment is opened up to include human rights instruments other than treaties (e.g. huma…
Settler-State Apologies to Indigenous Peoples: A Normative Framework and Comparative Assessment
DURING THE PAST TWO DECADES, an increasing number of states have issued official apologies to Indigenous peoples. The first wave of state apologies to Indigenous peoples began in 1991 when Canada’s assistant deputy minister for Indian affairs offered what may have been the first governmental apology to Indigenous peoples, and the first of three apologies Canada has offered for its century-long Indian Residential Schools program that removed Indig…
Emerging international indigenous rights norms and ‘over-compliance’ in New Zealand and Canada
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples now represents the minimum international standard on indigenous rights. A qualitative analysis of state responses to this emerging indigenous rights regime produces some curious results, including state compliance, non-compliance, under-compliance, partial compliance, and also a pattern of ‘over-compliance’ in indigenous rights. Over-compliance, a counter-intuitive behaviour in international …
Indigenous Rights in International Politics: The Case of “Overcompliant” Liberal States
An overcompliant state is one that paradoxically takes actions that recognize specific rights or a category of rights that go beyond or even against that state's international human rights treaty obligations or its normative international commitments. Since there is no existing IR literature that would explain why a state might paradoxically comply or “overcomply” with its stated commitments, there is also no theory to explain what would propel a…
A Promise Too Far? The Justin Trudeau Government and Indigenous Rights
Forced Federalism: Contemporary Challenges to Indigenous Nationhood
Throughout the history of the United States, federal policy towards indigenous nations has been characterized by particular policy eras. These eras have shifted at important historical junctures, o
Oaths of Office in Tribal Constitutions: Swearing Allegiance, but to Whom
Oaths of Office in Tribal ConstitutionsSwearing Allegiance, but to Whom? David E. Wilkins (bio) and Sheryl Lightfoot (bio) Indigenous nations inhabiting the lands now known as North America were, by definition, the original sovereign political entities and have existed for untold millennia. Each Native nation, whether a small fishing village in the Northwest, an agricultural community in the Southwest, or a hunting nation of the Great Plains, dev…
Are Indigenous conceptions of sovereignty as non-interference patriarchal
In the field of International Relations, sovereignty refers to a state’s authority to govern itself without external interference, closely tied to the principle of non-intervention. Recent scholarship has illuminated sovereignty as socially constructed and dynamic, yet non-interference remains central to its conception. Catherine MacKinnon’s feminist critique exposes the patriarchal implications of fetishising non-interference, silencing marginal…
Indigenous Rights in International Politics: The Case of “Overcompliant” Liberal States
An overcompliant state is one that paradoxically takes actions that recognize specific rights or a category of rights that go beyond or even against that state's international human rights treaty obligations or its normative international commitments. Since there is no existing IR literature that would explain why a state might paradoxically comply or “overcomply” with its stated commitments, there is also no theory to explain what would propel a…
Oaths of Office in Tribal Constitutions: Swearing Allegiance, but to Whom
Oaths of Office in Tribal ConstitutionsSwearing Allegiance, but to Whom? David E. Wilkins (bio) and Sheryl Lightfoot (bio) Indigenous nations inhabiting the lands now known as North America were, by definition, the original sovereign political entities and have existed for untold millennia. Each Native nation, whether a small fishing village in the Northwest, an agricultural community in the Southwest, or a hunting nation of the Great Plains, dev…
Forced Federalism: Contemporary Challenges to Indigenous Nationhood
Throughout the history of the United States, federal policy towards indigenous nations has been characterized by particular policy eras. These eras have shifted at important historical junctures, o
Emerging international indigenous rights norms and ‘over-compliance’ in New Zealand and Canada
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples now represents the minimum international standard on indigenous rights. A qualitative analysis of state responses to this emerging indigenous rights regime produces some curious results, including state compliance, non-compliance, under-compliance, partial compliance, and also a pattern of ‘over-compliance’ in indigenous rights. Over-compliance, a counter-intuitive behaviour in international …
Selective endorsement without intent to implement: Indigenous rights and the Anglosphere
In human rights commitment theory, state commitments to international regimes are generally interrogated as a binary calculation – either a state commits to a rights regime or it does not. This binary remains the dominant standard largely because existing scholarship focuses on state ratification of human rights treaties. However, when the analysis of state commitment is opened up to include human rights instruments other than treaties (e.g. huma…
Settler-State Apologies to Indigenous Peoples: A Normative Framework and Comparative Assessment
DURING THE PAST TWO DECADES, an increasing number of states have issued official apologies to Indigenous peoples. The first wave of state apologies to Indigenous peoples began in 1991 when Canada’s assistant deputy minister for Indian affairs offered what may have been the first governmental apology to Indigenous peoples, and the first of three apologies Canada has offered for its century-long Indian Residential Schools program that removed Indig…
Global Indigenous Politics: A subtle revolution
This book examines how Indigenous peoples’ rights and Indigenous rights movements represent an important and often overlooked shift in international politics - a shift that powerful states are actively resisting in a multitude of ways. While Indigenous peoples are often dismissed as marginal non-state actors, this book argues that far from insignificant, global Indigenous politics is potentially forging major changes in the international system, …
A Promise Too Far? The Justin Trudeau Government and Indigenous Rights
Hokkaidō 150: Settler colonialism and Indigeneity in modern Japan and beyond
This roundtable presents the proceedings of the “Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Modern Japan and Beyond” workshop held at the University of British Columbia in March 2019. The sesquicentennial of Japanese settler colonization of the northern island of Hokkaidō or Ainu Mosir received only scant attention either in Japan or around the world. The goal of this roundtable is to reinsert settler colonialism into modern Japanese hi…
Trading justice for peace? Reframing reconciliation in TRC processes in South Africa, Canada and Nordic countries
Conflict in its various manifestations continues to be a defining feature in many places throughout the world. In an attempt to address such conflict, various forms of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) have been introduced to facilitate the transition from social conflict to a new dispensation. The introduction and subsequent proceedings of TRCs in South Africa, Canada and Norway are widely regarded as good examples of this approach. Ag…
Decolonizing Self-Determination: Haudenosaunee Passports and Negotiated Sovereignty
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) recognises both Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination and simultaneously offers protections in regard to states’ right to sovereignty and territorial integrity vis-à-vis Indigenous peoples’ claims. Often, this is considered an internal inconsistency of the UNDRIP, and another common critique is that Indigenous peoples were only recognised as having a diminished …
Indigenous Peoples and Borders
Rhetoric and Settler Inertia: Strategies of Canadian Decolonization by Patrick Belanger, and: Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission by …
Reviewed by: Rhetoric and Settler Inertia: Strategies of Canadian Decolonization by Patrick Belanger, and: Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Dylan Robinson and Keavy Martin, and: Research & Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing through Indigenous Relationships by Shawn Wilson, Andrea V. Breen and Lindsay Dupré Sheryl Lightfoot (bio) Rhetoric and Settler Inertia: Strategi…
Handbook of Indigenous Public Policy
This ground-breaking Handbook explores the key legal, political and policy questions concerning the implementation of Indigenous rights across the world. Expert contributors analyse the complex dynamics of contestation, engagement, advocacy and refusal between governments and Indigenous Peoples, presenting a profound challenge to mainstream policy scholarship.
Are Indigenous conceptions of sovereignty as non-interference patriarchal
In the field of International Relations, sovereignty refers to a state’s authority to govern itself without external interference, closely tied to the principle of non-intervention. Recent scholarship has illuminated sovereignty as socially constructed and dynamic, yet non-interference remains central to its conception. Catherine MacKinnon’s feminist critique exposes the patriarchal implications of fetishising non-interference, silencing marginal…
Indigenous (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sovereignty (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Human rights (5 works)