Recognition politics and reconciliation fantasies: Liberal multiculturalism and the “Indian land question”

From: Home and Native Land

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Explores the parallels and divergences between the distinct but linked projects of national reconstruction: the state-led project of multiculturalism and the state’s attempt to resolve its long-standing “Indian problem.” Both depend on processes of recognition and reconciliation to bring what are seen as problematic identities or entities to within the bounds of the liberal capitalist state. Further, while liberal theory suggests that these processes are of mutual benefit to all parties involved, critical scholarship on multiculturalism and on recognition and reconciliation is drawn on to argue that these processes tend to reinforce existing asymmetrical relations of power between the state and those groups most strongly attached to the state, on the one hand, and peripheral or marginalized groups on the other.

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