Beyond Settler Time - 9780822362852

Beyond Settler TimeTemporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination\nAuthor(s): Mark Rifkin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822362852, 978-0822362852\nSynopsis\nWhat does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present? In Beyond Settler Time Mark Rifkin investigates the dangers of seeking to include Indigenous peoples within settler temporal frameworks. Claims that Native peoples should be recognized as coeval with Euro-Americans, Rifkin argues, implicitly treat dominant non-native ideologies and institutions as the basis for defining time itself. How, though, can Native peoples be understood as dynamic and changing while also not assuming that they belong to a present inherently shared with non-natives? Drawing on physics, phenomenology, queer studies, and postcolonial theory, Rifkin develops the concept of \""settler time\"" to address how Native peoples are both consigned to the past and .