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Insurgent indigeneity against settler colonialism: Ikaika Ramones, ‘”Insurgent Indigeneity”: A New Threshold of Indigenous Politics’, American Quarterly, 76, 3, 2024, pp. 567-590

23Sep24

Abstract: Celebrating Indigenous zones and movements of revival and “resurgence” has become a dominant frame of sorts for Indigenous political theory. Emergent Indigenous political praxis in Hawai’i, led by certain grassroots groups and organizers, leads me to theorize a qualitatively and quantitatively different modality of Indigenous politics—what I offer as “insurgent Indigeneity.” This essay traces a genealogy of resurgence paradigms, presenting a set of philosophical presuppositions that entail circumscriptions on Indigenous political horizons and praxis: namely, an inward focus and a dyadic politics of a friend-enemy distinction. Drawing from the emergent practices of Hawaiian insurgent Indigeneity, and the political schema of expanding hegemony in Antonio Gramsci’s The Modern Prince, I theorize how actors build upon resurgence to strategically proliferate outward, building mass power in a complex field of forces and actors to pursue a wider horizon of change.


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