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    The contemporary politics of recognition toward indigenou... — Carmelics
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    The contemporary politics of recognition toward indigenous communities rests on a flawed sociological assumption.

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    • 1.Hegel's dialectic of recognition presupposes symmetrical struggle between self-consciousnesses of equivalent ontological standing.
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    • 2.Indigenous nations and settler-colonial states occupy asymmetrical ontological positions: one seeks continuation, the other seeks legitimation of prior dispossession.
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    • 3.Applying a symmetrical recognition framework to structurally asymmetrical relations misdiagnoses the political problem as one of misrecognition rather than ongoing domination.
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    • 1.Coulthard's 'Red Skin, White Masks' demonstrates that recognition politics redirects indigenous self-determination into state-sanctioned channels, reproducing colonial power.
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    • 2.When recognition is granted by the colonial state, it functions as a conferral of status rather than acknowledgment of pre-existing sovereign personhood, inverting the sociological premise.
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    • 3.A framework premised on mutual constitution of identity cannot account for communities whose political identities predate and exist independently of the recognizing state.
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    • 1.The politics of recognition assumes that both parties in the struggle for recognition are mutually dependent on one another's acknowledgement for their freedom and self-worth.
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    • 2.No such mutual dependency exists in actual relations between nation-states and indigenous communities.
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    • 3.The colonial state does not require recognition from the previously self-determining communities upon which its territorial, economic, and social infrastructure is constituted.
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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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