Title Therapeutic nations : healing in an age of Indigenous human rights / Dian Million

Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2013] ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (230 pages) Series Critical issues in Indigenous studies Critical issues in indigenous studies. Contents An Introduction to Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights -- Gendered Racialized Sexuality : The Formation of States -- Felt Theory -- The "Indian Problem" : Anomie and Its Discontents -- Therapeutic Nations -- What Will Our Nation Be? -- (Un)Making the Biopolitical Citizen Summary Self-determination is on the agenda of Indigenous peoples all over the world. This analysis by an Indigenous feminist scholar challenges the United Nations-based human rights agendas and colonial theory that until now have shaped Indigenous models of self-determination. Gender inequality and gender violence, the author argues, are critically important elements in the process of self-determination. The author contends that nation-state relations are influenced by a theory of trauma ascendant with the rise of neoliberalism. Such use of trauma theory regarding human rights corresponds to a therapeutic narrative by Western governments negotiating with Indigenous nations as they seek self-determination. Focusing on Canada and drawing comparisons with the United States and Australia, the author brings a genealogical understanding of trauma against a historical filter. Illustrating how Indigenous people are positioned differently in Canada, Australia, and the United States in their articulation of trauma, the author particularly addresses the violence against women as a language within a greater politic. The book introduces an Indigenous feminist critique of this violence against the medicalized framework of addressing trauma and looks to the larger goals of decolonization. Noting the influence of humanitarian psychiatry, the author goes on to confront the implications of simply dismissing Indigenous healing and storytelling traditions. This is the first book to demonstrate affect and trauma's wide-ranging historical origins in an Indigenous setting, offering insights into community healing programs. The author's theoretical sophistication and original research make the book relevant across a range of disciplines as it challenges key concepts of American Indian and Indigenous studies. -- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-223) and index Notes Print version record Subject Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Government relations Indigenous peoples -- Government relations -- Cross-cultural studies Indigenous peoples -- Civil rights -- Canada Indigenous peoples -- Civil rights -- Cross-cultural studies Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Cross-cultural studies Truth commissions -- Cross-cultural studies SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Indigenous peoples -- Civil rights Indigenous peoples -- Government relations Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. Truth commissions Canada Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies Form Electronic book LC no. 2013003309 ISBN 1299760104 9781299760103 9780816599172 0816599173

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