Just Do It! Self-Determination for Complex Minorities
This thesis explores how Indigenous and linguistic communities achieve self-determination without fixed cultural and territorial boundaries. An examination of the governance practices of Métis, Francophones and First Nations in Saskatchewan reveals that these communities use innovative membership an...
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ftunivtoronto:oai:localhost:1807/70073 2023-05-15T16:16:08+02:00 Just Do It! Self-Determination for Complex Minorities Dubois, Janique F. White, Graham Williams, Melissa Political Science WITHHELD_TWO_YEAR http://hdl.handle.net/1807/70073 en_ca eng http://hdl.handle.net/1807/70073 Self-Government Métis First Nation Fransaskois Minority Rights 0615 Thesis ftunivtoronto 2020-06-17T11:24:44Z This thesis explores how Indigenous and linguistic communities achieve self-determination without fixed cultural and territorial boundaries. An examination of the governance practices of Métis, Francophones and First Nations in Saskatchewan reveals that these communities use innovative membership and participation rules in lieu of territorial and cultural criteria to delineate the boundaries within which to exercise political power. These practices have allowed territorially dispersed communities to build institutions, adopt laws and deliver services through province-wide governance structures. In addition to providing an empirical basis to support non-territorial models of self-determination, this study offers a new approach to governance that challenges state-centric theories of minority rights by focusing on the transformative power communities generate through stories and actions. PhD Thesis First Nations University of Toronto: Research Repository T-Space |
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This thesis explores how Indigenous and linguistic communities achieve self-determination without fixed cultural and territorial boundaries. An examination of the governance practices of Métis, Francophones and First Nations in Saskatchewan reveals that these communities use innovative membership and participation rules in lieu of territorial and cultural criteria to delineate the boundaries within which to exercise political power. These practices have allowed territorially dispersed communities to build institutions, adopt laws and deliver services through province-wide governance structures. In addition to providing an empirical basis to support non-territorial models of self-determination, this study offers a new approach to governance that challenges state-centric theories of minority rights by focusing on the transformative power communities generate through stories and actions. PhD |
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