@article{49804,
      recid = {49804},
      author = {Stamatopoulou, Elsa,},
      title = {Indigenous peoples in the international arena : the global  movement for self-determination /},
      pages = {xv, 312 pages.},
      abstract = {This book provides a definitive account of the creation  and rise of the international Indigenous Peoples" movement.  In the late 1970s, motivated by their dire situation and  local struggles, and inspired by worldwide movements for  social justice and decolonization, including the American  civil rights movement, Indigenous Peoples around the world  got together and began to organize at the international  level. Although each defined itself by its relation to a  unique land, culture, and often language, Indigenous  Peoples from around the world made an extraordinary leap,  using a common conceptual vocabulary, and addressing  international bodies that until then had barely recognized  their existence. At the intersection of politics, law and  culture, this book documents the visionary emergence of the  international Indigenous movement, detailing its challenges  and achievements, including the historic recognition of  Indigenous rights through the adoption of the UN  Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007.  The winning by Indigenous Peoples of an unprecedented kind  and degree of international participation - especially at  the United Nations, an institution centered on states -  meant overcoming enormous institutional and political  resistance. The book shows how this participation became an  increasingly assertive self-expression and even an exercise  of self-determination by which Indigenous Peoples could  both benefit from and contribute to the international  community overall - now, crucially, by sharing their  knowledge about climate change, their approaches to  development and well-being, and their struggles against the  impact of extractive industries on their lands and  resources. Written by the former Chief of the Secretariat  of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues,  this book will be of interest to researchers, teachers,  students, advocates, practitioners and others with  interests in Indigenous legal and political issues.},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/49804},
}