Indigenous Invisibility in the City contextualises the significant
social change in Indigenous life circumstances and resurgence that came
out of social movements in cities. It is about Indigenous resurgence and
community development by First Nations people for First Nations people
in cities.
Seventy-five years ago, First Nations peoples began a significant
post-war period of relocation to cities in the United States, Canada,
Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand. First Nations peoples engaged in
projects of resurgence and community development in the cities of the
four settler states. First Nations peoples, who were motivated by
aspirations for autonomy and empowerment, went on to create the
foundations of Indigenous social infrastructure. This book explains the
ways First Nations people in cities created and took control of their
own futures. A fact largely wilfully ignored in policy contexts.
Today, differences exist over the way governments and First Nations
peoples see the role and responsibilities of Indigenous institutions in
cities. What remains hidden in plain sight is their societal function as
a social and political apparatus through which much of the social
processes of Indigenous resurgence and community development in cities
occurred. The struggle for self-determination in settler cities plays
out through First Nations people's efforts to sustain their own
institutions and resurgence, but also rights and recognition in cities.
This book will be of interest to Indigenous studies scholars, urban
sociologists, urban political scientists, urban studies scholars, and
development studies scholars interested in urban issues and community
building and development.
This book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the
individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0
license.
