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    Indigenous peoples should redirect struggles toward a res... — Carmelics
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    Indigenous peoples should redirect struggles toward a resurgent politics of recognition premised on self-actualization rather than seeking settler-state recognition.

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    • 1.Seeking a conciliatory form of settler-state recognition for Indigenous nations does not produce genuine self-determination.
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    • 2.A resurgent politics of recognition premised on self-actualization, direct action, and resurgence of cultural practices addresses both subjective and structural dimensions of settler-colonial power.
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    • 1.State recognition, however imperfect, confers legally enforceable protections that extrajudicial resurgence movements cannot independently secure.
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    • 2.Coulthard's dichotomy between recognition and resurgence underestimates how Indigenous communities strategically use both simultaneously without contradiction.
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    • 3.Dismissing settler-state engagement risks abandoning material gains in land rights, resource sovereignty, and treaty enforcement won through legal recognition.
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    • 1.Hegel's master-slave dialectic, which grounds recognition theory, does not entail that recognition must reproduce subordination—it can be transformed through struggle.
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    • 2.Axel Honneth's intersubjective account demonstrates that misrecognition causes genuine psychological harm that self-actualization alone cannot remedy without social validation.
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    • 3.A politics that categorically refuses external recognition may reproduce the isolation that historically weakened Indigenous collective bargaining power against state encroachment.
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    Some postcolonial theorists are critical of multiculturalism and the contemporary politics of recognition for reinforcing, rather than transforming, structures of colonial domination in relations between settler states and indigenous communities. Focusing on Taylor’s theory of the politics of recognition, Glen Coulthard has argued that “instead of ushering in an era of peaceful coexistence grounded on the Hegelian idea of reciprocity, the politics of recognition in its contemporary form promises
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