Indigenous Resurgence in the City
Land, Kinship and Nationhood for the Doubly Dispossessed
In Indigenous Resurgence in the City, Natalie Knight argues that 21st century Indigenous political movements in the U.S and Canada focused on returning to our particular nations, languages, and land bases are often not accessible to urban and doubly dispossessed Indigenous people.
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In Indigenous Resurgence in the City, Natalie Knight argues that 21st century Indigenous political movements in the U.S and Canada focused on returning to our particular nations, languages, and land bases are often not accessible to urban and doubly dispossessed Indigenous people — that is, Indigenous people as those of us who have not only been dispossessed of our lands, but have also been dispossessed of our nations through the effects of colonialism. She contends that urban and doubly dispossessed Indigenous people embody particular subjectivities that contemporary Indigenous theory has not sufficiently recognized, understood or theorized.
To begin to fill this gap, Knight theorizes the subjectivities of doubly dispossessed Indigenous people in order to articulate their political agency and potential contributions to social struggles against colonialism and capitalism. She offers Indigenous perspectives on political problems that characterize both contemporary working class and urban Indigenous social movements and provides the first sustained attempt at theorizing the agency, subjectivity, and political capacities of urban and doubly dispossessed Indigenous people.