Chapter Two. Individual autonomy,Group Self-determination and the Assimilation of Indigenous Cultures

2008 ◽  
pp. 31-49
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Group Self

Indigenous Planning: From Forced Assimilation to Self-determination

2021 ◽  
pp. 088541222110266
Author(s):  
Michael Hibbard
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Indigenous Planning ◽  
Indigenous Land Rights ◽  
Indigenous Land

Interest in Indigenous planning has blossomed in recent years, particularly as it relates to the Indigenous response to settler colonialism. Driven by land and resource hunger, settler states strove to extinguish Indigenous land rights and ultimately to destroy Indigenous cultures. However, Indigenous peoples have persisted. This article draws on the literature to examine the resistance of Indigenous peoples to settler colonialism, their resilience, and the resurgence of Indigenous planning as a vehicle for Indigenous peoples to determine their own fate and to enact their own conceptions of self-determination and self-governance.

Autonomous Individuals or Self-Determined Communities? The Changing Ethics of Research among Native Americans

2007 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Smith-Morris
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
Biomedical Ethics ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Tribal Identity ◽  
Tribal Communities ◽  
Indigenous Groups

Ethnographic and biological research among tribal communities demands that a researcher successfully navigate not only the social environment but also the political, legal, and biomedical perspectives that compete in today's ethics battleground. Health researchers are, therefore, increasingly drawn into the complex arenas of tribal identity, self-determination, and governance. This brief discussion reflects upon almost a decade of research among indigenous groups in the American Southwest, spanning some of the region's most hostile and unwelcoming years toward outsiders since the Pueblo Revolt. I focus upon the concept in biomedical ethics of individual autonomy, a powerful but inadequate concept for treatment of tribal decision-making and community self-determination. Incompatible with culture mores of strong family, community, and group decision-making, the principle of autonomy serves as an acculturative agent within medical research and treatment. Alternative approaches to consent, and to ethics more broadly, are called for.

scholarly journals Indigene Völker und Landrechte : ein Überblick

1988 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 164-176
Author(s):  
L. T. Søftestad
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Cultural Heterogeneity ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
The Future ◽  
Indigenous Human Rights ◽  
Special Rights

Abstract. The paper focuses on indigenous peoples, their present Situation and prospects for the future. While emphasizing the cultural heterogeneity of indigenous peoples worldwide, the paper at the same time Stresses certain basic similarities especially as concerns their relation with land. It argues that in order for indigenous cultures to regain control of their own future, necessary recognition of their special rights to land as well as acceptance of some form of self-determination is mandatory. The ongoing work on securing these rights by indigenous and non-indigenous NGO's and within the UN and ILO is discussed. It is argued that this work on indigenous human rights must continue and that increased international concern is necessary in order to secure to indigenous peoples their basic and necessary human rights.

scholarly journals Indigenous Knowledges Driving Technological Innovation

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 241-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
The Hi‘iaka Working Group
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Geospatial Technologies ◽  
Cultural Survival ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Critical Step

This policy brief explores the use and expands the conversation on the ability of geospatial technologies to represent Indigenous cultural knowledge. Indigenous peoples’ use of geospatial technologies has already proven to be a critical step for protecting tribal self-determination. However, the ontological frameworks and techniques of Western geospatial technologies differ from those of Indigenous cultures, which inevitably lead to mistranslation and misrepresentation when applied to cultural knowledge. The authors advocate the creation of new technologies that are more conducive to Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies in an effort to break down the barriers to the expression and preservation of cultural heritage and cultural survival.

scholarly journals The Capabilities Approach and the Concepts of Self-Determination, Legal Competence and Human Dignity in Social Services for Older People

2022 ◽  
pp. 175-189
Author(s):  
Eva-Maria Svensson ◽  
Therese Bäckman ◽  
Torbjörn Odlöw
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Political Obligations ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Legal Competence ◽  
The Individual

AbstractIn this chapter, the tension between self-determination and human dignity in the Swedish legal system of social care for older people is analysed with help of the capabilities approach. The core focus of this approach is the individual person’s capability to make decisions. Also important is a supportive societal system that enables the realisation of self-determination, specifically for individuals who are not fully capable of making arrangements for themselves. The capabilities approach emphasises the responsibility of the State and can be used to analyse the impact of legal and political obligations for nation-states, and to balance the increased focus on self-determination and the quest for increased capabilities among older people. In the context of a dismantled welfare state, a one-sided focus on individual autonomy might turn out to be a double-edged sword, leaving the individual with self-determination but no (or insufficient) available care to decide about. In this chapter, the underlying principles of practical decisions are theoretically explored and reflected upon. Of specific relevance is human dignity (in addition to enhancing individual freedom), normativity (a set of fundamental capabilities is identified) and the central role of the nation-state (as the responsible political subject for the achievement of minimum thresholds for all capabilities).

Food Sovereignty, Justice, and Indigenous Peoples

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Powys Whyte
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Wild Rice ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Collective Self

Indigenous peoples often claim that colonial powers, such as settler states, violate Indigenous peoples’ collective self-determination over their food systems, or food sovereignty. Violations of food sovereignty are often food injustices. Yet Indigenous peoples claim that one of the solutions to protecting food sovereignty involves the conservation of particular foods, from salmon to wild rice. This chapter advances an argument that claims of this kind advance particular theories of food sovereignty and food injustice that are not actually grounded in static conceptions of Indigenous cultures; instead, such claims offer important contributions for understanding how settler colonial domination is a form of injustice that undermines key relationships that support Indigenous collective self-determination as an adaptive capacity.

scholarly journals Helping Buchanan on Helping the Rebels

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Weltman
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
Group Self

Massimo Renzo has recently argued in this journal that Allen Buchanan’s account of the ethics of intervention is too permissive. Renzo claims that a proper understanding of political self-determination shows that it is often impermissible to intervene in order to establish a regime that leads to more self-determination for a group of people if that group was or would be opposed to the intervention. Renzo’s argument rests on an analogy between individual self-determination and group self-determination, and once we see that there are differences between the two kinds of self-determination, his argument against Buchanan fails, and thus there are more cases of permissible intervention than Renzo countenances. However, understanding these differences also reveals that Buchanan’s account is also not permissive enough. There are cases of justified intervention beyond even what Buchanan compasses.

scholarly journals Global Justice, Freedom of Movement and Democratic Citizenship

2009 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Bauböck
Keyword(s):  
Global Justice ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
Immigration Control ◽  
Liberal Citizenship

AbstractThe article discusses three liberal arguments about freedom of movement: immigration as a remedy for global injustice in the distribution of opportunities, freedom of movement as an integral aspect of individual autonomy, and immigration control as implied in democratic self-determination and citizenship. The article shows how these apparently irreconcilable stances can be reconstructed as partially overlapping once we realize that liberal citizenship provides not only reasons for closure but entails a bundle of mobility rights and is open for access by migrant stakeholders.

scholarly journals Co-Creating Autonomy: Group Data Protection and Individual Self-determination within a Data Commons

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Janis Wong ◽  
Tristan Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Data Collection Process ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
Data Commons

Recent privacy scandals such as Cambridge Analytica and the Nightingale Project show that data sharing must be carefully managed and regulated to prevent data misuse. Data protection law, legal frameworks, and technological solutions tend to focus on controller responsibilities as opposed to protecting data subjects from the beginning of the data collection process. Using a case study of how data subjects can be better protected during data curation, we propose that a co-created data commons can protect individual autonomy over personal data through collective curation and rebalance power between data subjects and controllers.  

scholarly journals Forms of subjectification: Rights and freedom as neoliberal politics in healthcare system. The Italian law on Living Will

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 1133-1165
Author(s):  
Matteo Finco ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Living Will ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Italian Law ◽  
Social System Theory ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Reflection

Health represents a context where it is possible to observe the relationship between individuals and society, namely which spaces of autonomy are left for the individuals and which social forces are exercised on them. If Critical Theory points out the mechanisms of a neoliberal matrix that makes individuals “subjugate subjects”, Social System Theory allows to investigate how they are “included” in various spheres of society. Integrating these theories, we investigate mechanisms of subjectification on health. Moreover, through the analysis of the recent Italian law on advance directives and living will, we question if the claims of self-determination expressed by individuals could represent a form of “resistance” against neoliberal policies. Through a theoretical reflection and an analysis of the background and the juridical consequences of the law n. 219/2017, we conclude that the individual autonomy could be exercised together with responsibility towards others, balancing individual needs and claims with social solidarity. La salud representa un contexto en el cual se puede observar la relación entre los individuos y la sociedad. Si la Teoría Crítica apunta a los mecanismos de una matriz neoliberal que convierte a los individuos en “sujetos subyugados”, la Teoría de Sistemas Sociales permite investigar cómo éstos son “incluidos” en diversas esferas de la sociedad. Al integrar esas teorías, investigamos los mecanismos de subjetivización en el área de la salud. Además, a través del análisis de una ley italiana reciente, nos preguntamos si las proclamas de autodeterminación expresadas por los individuos podrían representar una forma de “resistencia” contra las políticas neoliberales. A través de la reflexión teórica y el análisis del contexto y de las consecuencias jurídicas de la Ley 219/2017, concluimos que la autonomía personal se podría ejercitar junto con la responsabilidad hacia el prójimo, equilibrando las necesidades y las reivindicaciones personales con la solidaridad social.

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