Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination

by Mark Rifkin

Book Overview

What does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present? In Beyond Settler Time Mark Rifkin investigates the dangers of seeking to include Indigenous peoples within settler temporal frameworks. Claims that Native peoples should be recognized as coeval with Euro-Americans, Rifkin argues, implicitly treat dominant non-native ideologies and institutions as the basis for defining time itself. How, though, can Native peoples be understood as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082236297X
• ISBN13: 9780822362975
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"