Indigenous citizenship, shared fate, and non-ideal circumstances

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ID4525005
AuthorsAnnamari Vitikainen (0000-0002-4610-4644, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume25
Issue1
Pages1-19
Publication date2021-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2020.1837738
OpenAlexW3095303725
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited31

This paper discusses the notion of ‘citizenship as shared fate’ as a potentially inclusive and real-world responsive way of understanding Indigenous citizenship in a non-ideal world. The paper draws on Melissa Williams’ work on ‘citizenship as shared fate,’ and assesses some of the benefits and drawbacks of using this notion to understand citizenship in Indigenous and modern state contexts. In particular, the paper focuses on the challenges that existing non-ideal circumstances – past and enduring injustices and unequal power relations – bring to the understanding of ‘citizenship as shared fate’, and the normative constraints for realizing such citizenship in our contemporary world. By developing this notion in light of Indigenous claims for justice, the paper proposes three side constraints to the notion of ‘citizenship as shared fate,’ including its openness to different views of history, the role of history in shaping the future, and acknowledging – and countering – prevailing power relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. The paper concludes by looking at some of the implications of the reconceptualized notion of ‘citizenship as shared fate’ for the shaping of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations in the Nordic/Sápmi context

Biology · Citizenship · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Indigenous · Indigenous rights · Law and economics · Normative · Openness to experience · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Religious Education and Schools · Social Psychology · Social Science and Policy Research

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