Separate but Unequal: How Parallelist Ideology Conceals Indigenous Dependency (Politics and Public Policy)

Separate but Unequal provides an in-depth critique of the ideology of parallelism--the prevailing view that Indigenous cultures and the wider Canadian society should exist separately from one another in a "nation-to-nation" relationship.

Using the Final Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples as an example, this historical and material analysis shows how the single-minded pursuit of parallelism will not result in a more balanced relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. On the contrary, it merely restores archaic economic, political, and ideological forms that will continue to isolate the Indigenous population.

This book provides an alternative framework for examining Indigenous dependency. This new perspective--the political economy of neotribal rentierism--shows that Indigenous Peoples' circumstances have been inextricably linked to the development of capitalism in Canada. While Indigenous Peoples were integral participants in the fur trade, the transition from mercantilism to industrial capitalism led to their marginalization.

This book is published in English.

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Separate but Unequal fournit une analyse approfondie de l'id ologie du parall lisme - la vision dominante selon laquelle les cultures autochtones et la soci t canadienne en g n ral devraient vivre s par ment les unes des autres dans une relation de nation nation.
En s'appuyant sur le rapport final de la Commission royale sur les peuples autochtones, cette analyse historique et mat rielle montre que les propositions parall listes visant accro tre l'autonomie des Autochtones dans tous les aspects des politiques publiques ne se solderont pas en une relation plus quilibr e entre peuples autochtones et non autochtones, tant donn qu'elles ne font que r tablir des formes conomiques, politiques et id ologiques archa ques qui continueront d'isoler la population autochtone.
Elle propose de recadrer la question de la d pendance autochtone en ayant recours la notion de renti risme n otribal. Ce cadre d' conomie politique met en lumi re le fait que les conditions des peuples autochtones ont t inextricablement li es au d veloppement du capitalisme au Canada.
Ce livre est publi en anglais.