Making Space at the Nations' Table

Mapping the transformative geographies of the international indigenous peoples' movement

Bibliographic Data

ID6382467
AuthorsAlice Feldman (0000-0002-8807-5300, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume1
Issue1
Pages31-46
Publication date2002-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial movement studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1474-2829 • E-ISSN: 1474-2837
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14742830120118882
OpenAlexW2121473167
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited37

Social movement scholarship has focused increasingly upon the roles played by symbolic resources and movement discourses in the process of social transformation. Current socio-political approaches, often characterized by an excessive focus on movement structure to the exclusion of larger cultural considerations, still struggle to address adequately the process of transmutation from idea to form, from symbolic shift to material change. Through an examination of the international indigenous peoples' movement, this article illustrates the ways that space constitutes a mediating dimension of the transformative processes through which the symbolic potential of movement discourses may be manifested. The alternative spatialities and new geographies generated, deployed and legitimized by this movement have provided critical locations for indigenous peoples to enact the creative work of mobilization. It is argued that incorporating the work of critical geographers into existing sociological and political perspectives will contribute to the better apprehension of these transformative processes as well as those associated with the particularly spatialized phenomena related to globalization, development, nationalism and geopolitics

Environmental ethics · Indigenous · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Mining and Resource Management

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