[nativestudies-l] CFP: Alternatives: Global, Local, Political

[jkauanui at wesleyan.edu]

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Alternatives: Global, Local, Political Special Three Part Series on
Indigenous Politics


Department of
Political Science
University of Hawai�i at Manoa
2424 Maile
Way
Honolulu, HI 96822

Hokulani K.
Aikau, Ph.D.  (aikau at hawaii.edu)
Jodi Byrd, Ph.D.
(jabyrd at uiuc.edu)
Petrice Flowers,
Ph.D. (pflowers at hawaii.edu)
Katharina Heyer,
Ph.D. (heyer at hawaii.edu)
Jungmin Seo,
Ph.D. (seoj at hawaii.edu)
James H.
Spencer, Ph.D. (jhs at hawaii.edu)

Alternatives:
Global, Local, Political, a cutting-edge journal in international
politics, is
seeking submissions for the last volume in a series of three special issues
focusing on the theme of �indigenous politics.� The special issues will
explore
how �indigenous politics� can broaden the parameters of �political
practice and
identity under increasingly global conditions.�


Issues
surrounding �native� peoples, institutions and traditions have come to the
forefront of scholarly debate, politics, and public policy since 1992, the
500th
anniversary of Columbus� voyage to North America. This surge of interest
in how nation states
in North and South America, Asia, Africa, Europe and Oceania interact with
those
residents and communities indigenous to their borders but considered
external to
their cultural and political history has affected scholarly and policy debate
from real estate development, to fishing rights, to affirmative action. Such
developments often distinguish �indigenous� from �minority� issues without
accepted definitions of what constitutes these groups, nor even agreement
on the
wide range of debates initiated by the use of these terms.

The objectives
of this series of special issues of Alternatives are to provide 1) clear
thinking about the term �indigenous,� 2) a resource for scholarly programs
integrating indigenous issues into existing curricula and creating new
programs
in indigenous studies (as distinct from programs focused on one particular
indigenous community); 3) a conceptual foundation for policy and activist
institutions working on indigenous issues; and 4) a platform for further
empirical and theoretical research within and outside the academy.

Call for Papers
For the Third Issue
Indigenous
Politics: Migration/Citizenship/Cyberspace (2008)
Guest Editors:
Petrice Flowers, Jungmin Seo

Possible topics
for the final issue might focus on the relations between race and space in
conceiving the indigenous.
Historically, migration and diasporic communities have created
indigenous/non-indigenous divides related, but not identical to race and
ethnicity.  How are these flows of
people and ideas as well as the institutions to manage then, impeded or
assisted
by the state and other social, political, and economic institutions?  What
does improved knowledge and
understanding of these flows contribute to how one defines an indigenous
person
or community?  What role do global
technologies play in linking migrant and diasporic communities to each
other and
to the homeland?

If you are
interested in contributing to this issue, please submit an abstract by
February
29, 2007 to Petrice Flowers (pflowers at hawaii.edu) or Jungmin Seo
(seoj at hawaii.edu). Detailed abstracts
should be approximately 1,000 words that describe the argument, methodology,
theoretical approach and description of the case study.  After review of
abstracts, authors will
be invited to submit a manuscript by May 1.  Manuscript reviews will be
completed by
early June.  Please do not send
completed manuscripts at this time.