The book delves into the complexities of indigenous rights within postcolonial nation-states, highlighting a paradox where indigenous communities are both integrated into and excluded from legal systems. It examines various cases from North and South America to illuminate themes of shared sovereignty, multiculturalism, and legal pluralism, providing a critical analysis of the challenges and dynamics faced by indigenous populations in navigating their rights and identities.
Many claim that political deliberation has become exceedingly affective, and hence, destabilizing. The authors of this book revisit that assumption. While recognizing that significant changes are occurring, these authors also point out the limitations of turning to contemporary democratic theory to understand and unpack these shifts. They propose, instead, to reframe this debate by deploying the analytic framework of affective societies, which highlights how affect and emotion are present in all aspects of the social. What changes over time and place are the modes and calibrations of affective and emotional registers. With this line of thinking, the authors are able to gesture towards a new outline of the political.