Decolonial entanglements against settler colonialism: David Myer Temin, ‘Indigenous Liberation and Decolonization: Circulations between Third and Fourth Worlds’, in Anne Garland Mahler, Christopher J. Lee, Monica Popescu (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South, Oxford Academic, 2025 | settler colonial studies blog

Decolonial entanglements against settler colonialism: David Myer Temin, ‘Indigenous Liberation and Decolonization: Circulations between Third and Fourth Worlds’, in Anne Garland Mahler, Christopher J. Lee, Monica Popescu (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South, Oxford Academic, 2025

30Jan25

Abstract: The history of Indigenous peoples’ liberation and decolonization movements have been undertheorized within—when not simply omitted from—histories of the Global South. The applicability of the decolonization framework and the limits of Third World solidarities have often been fraught with respect to Indigenous peoples’ movements, despite an overlapping, if not shared, heritage of decolonizing discourses and practices of (inter)national liberation and self-determination. This chapter explores how Indigenous studies scholars have reconfigured the framework of Red Power, arguing on behalf of the potential in more recent attempts to uncover and theorize the far more complex political and philosophical connections between transnational Indigenous peoples’ decolonization movements (labeled the “Fourth World” by George Manuel) and the “Third World.” In doing so, this chapter seeks to throw into relief the disjunctures and underexplored connections between histories of the Global South (especially its Third Worldist precedents) and of Indigenous peoples’ liberation/decolonization movements. The chapter narrows in primarily on North American Indigenous peoples’ movements and scholarship in Indigenous Studies but branches out in the final section to consider tensions between the contemporary geopolitical promise of the Global South and Indigenous struggles within and against the colonial and postcolonial world.

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