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Global Society | 2014

Adapt or die?: the biopolitics of indigeneity – from the civilising mission to the need for adaption

Marjo Lindroth; Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen

Indigenous peoples and indigenous lives have historically been the targets of colonial practices. In current politics, the brutal actions these entailed have changed into more subtle forms of governing. Drawing on the context of international politics (the Arctic Council and the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues), we argue that the demand/need for adaptation is one of the rationalities by which power is exercised over indigenous peoples and indigeneity today. We view this as a form of biopower that fosters and steers indigenous life. The paper highlights three concurrent and overlapping strands of the vocabulary of adaptation: a call for agency, a sustaining of authenticity and a politics of placation. Together, these signal what the adaptive indigenous subject should be like, an unceasing demand for adaptation that is subtler but no less colonial than exercises of power past.


RESILIENCE : INTERNATIONAL POLICIES, PRACTICES AND DISCOURSES | 2016

The biopolitics of resilient indigeneity and the radical gamble of resistance

Marjo Lindroth; Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen

Abstract This paper probes the current empathetic common ground on indigeneity in international politics and views the care for indigeneity as the loving embrace of biopower. First, we argue that indigeneity is a target of particular biopolitical aspirations that resonate with the resilience discourse. By engaging in a critical discussion of resilience as a technique of neoliberal governance we identify adaptation, vulnerability and care as the building blocks of indigenous resilience. They entail a particular script on the proper indigenous subjectivity. Second, we discuss the ways in which resistance could be conceptualised in the context of this power that works through resilience. Resistance to biopower is a gamble that involves gains and losses that are impossible to assess beforehand. We ponder care, victimhood and hope as sites of resistance that could offer ways to view indigeneity in more political terms than those defined by resilience alone.


Archive | 2018

Excluded in the Past, Celebrated in the Present

Marjo Lindroth; Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen

The chapter offers a summary of the history and contemporary position of indigenous peoples in international politics. In particular, Lindroth and Sinevaara-Niskanen examine the ways in which the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Arctic Council have enabled indigenous peoples to take part in their proceedings and how this engagement takes place in practice. The analysis draws attention to the neoliberal nature of this involvement and assesses the desire of politics to make amends with the peoples through political partnership and collaboration. The chapter concludes by elucidating the ways in which political inclusion of the indigenous peoples has actually meant their exclusion.


Archive | 2018

Vulnerable Yet Adaptive: Indigeneity in the Making

Marjo Lindroth; Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen

Lindroth and Sinevaara-Niskanen illuminate how the perceptions of indigenous peoples’ environmental boundedness, vulnerability and adaptation have come to circumscribe indigeneity in global politics. The chapter describes the common ways in which politics defines indigenous peoples in terms of their allegedly close relationship to nature and their historical and contemporary vulnerability even as it invokes their proven ability to adapt to changing environmental, social and economic conditions. The chapter demonstrates how these notions construct requirements of indigenous exceptionality—a peculiar otherness—that the peoples are expected to embrace in order to enter political arenas. By pinpointing the power that is exercised over indigenous peoples in assigning them a separate political ‘slot’, the analysis reveals the violence embedded in the seemingly well-meaning care of the politics that seeks to include the peoples.


Archive | 2018

The Neoliberal Embrace of Resilient Indigeneity

Marjo Lindroth; Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen

Lindroth and Sinevaara-Niskanen demonstrate how resilience—as a term subsuming the peoples’ (alleged) vulnerability, role as care-takers and adaptability—has gained ground in international politics and its dealings with indigeneity. The chapter analyzes the requirement of resilient indigeneity as a neoliberal fantasy, a trope that redirects the attention of and measures taken by global politics from conditions to subjects. Instead of politics being concerned with mending the conditions that demand resilience on the part of indigenous subjects—the conditions that the politics itself has caused—it seeks to enhance the subjects that are struggling under those conditions. The chapter shows how this shift in focus is a move that dilutes the political potential of indigeneity to challenge the existing power set-up.


Archive | 2018

Modes of Love

Marjo Lindroth; Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen

By merging critical discussions on indigeneity, biopower and subjectivity, Lindroth and Sinevaara offer a pioneering account of what they term ‘the contemporary biopolitical wave of colonialism’. The chapter discusses the ways in which the indigenous subject is governed. In teasing out three components of biopolitical care toward indigeneity, the chapter reveals how this benevolent concern for indigenous subjects is, in effect, violent in nature. The authors elaborate an analytical approach for identifying the techniques by which the empathetic and loving care of indigeneity operates to detain indigenous subjectivity in a position where it is eternally in the making. In particular, the chapter elaborates how the biopolitical control over indigeneity amounts to colonialism that continues in new guises.


Archive | 2018

At Home in International Politics

Marjo Lindroth; Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen

As international politics celebrates its ‘milestones’ in addressing indigenous issues, Lindroth and Sinevaara-Niskanen offer a much-needed critical reading of that politics and its promise of progress. Introducing the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Arctic Council as sites of inclusion for indigenous peoples, the chapter discusses the emergence of global ‘indigeneity’ and the ways in which this category has been politically re-appropriated. The authors draw attention to the contemporary perception that global politics is becoming more favorable to indigenous peoples and their causes and reveal the neoliberal premises of that politics. The chapter argues that despite international politics appearing more inclusive, and thus less hierarchical, its colonial grip over indigeneity remains firm.


Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses | 2016

Special section: indigenising resilience

Marjo Lindroth; Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen

Abstract Indigenous peoples are often portrayed as vulnerable and at risk but, at the same time, as capable of adapting and surviving. Indeed, being active, responsible and persistent in the face of environmental and social challenges is a key facet of how indigenous peoples are perceived today. This special section seeks to open up a discussion on the ways in which this ‘resilience’ is increasingly inscribed in the understandings of indigeneity. The notion of infinite resilience is an integral part of the exceptionality that defines indigeneity in various political, legal and cultural sites. The articles in this special section examine various conceptions of resilience and the possibilities they offer for analysing the position of indigeneity in the contemporary world.


International Political Sociology | 2013

At the Crossroads of Autonomy and Essentialism: Indigenous Peoples in International Environmental Politics

Marjo Lindroth; Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen


Polar Record | 2006

Indigenous-state relations in the UN: establishing the Indigenous Forum

Marjo Lindroth

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