Sheryl Lightfoot
Biographic Data
| ID | 455609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheryl Lightfoot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheryl |
| FAMILY NAME | Lightfoot |
| SIGNATURE | LIGHTFOOT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
A Promise Too Far? The Justin Trudeau Government and Indigenous Rights
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Sovereignty (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)