Speculative coalitions : Indigenous and Chican@ futurisms, narrative form, and decolonial approaches to international law
| dc.contributor.advisor | Cox, James H. (James Howard),1968- | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Perez, Domino Renee, 1967- | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Hoad, Neville | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | González, John | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Dillon, Grace | |
| dc.creator | Uzendoski, Andrew Gregg | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-12-16T21:42:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-12-16T21:42:30Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2015-08 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-10-06 | |
| dc.date.submitted | August 2015 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2022-12-16T21:42:31Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation analyzes an unprecedented era of Indigenous and Chican@ speculative fiction that advocated for the mobilization of international coalitions. During the first half of the 1990s, a critical mass of Indigenous and Chican@ authors wrote speculative texts that imagined how international coalitions of non-state actors can enact legal reform across North America. Attending to this boom of speculative fiction production, I will examine legal arguments made by Indigenous and Chican@ authors between 1990 and 1995. I address texts that identify specific targets for legal reform: international human rights law, international legal norms, citizenship criteria, electoral systems and collective land ownership. By studying this literary phenomena across both Indigenous and Chican@ literatures, this project offers a robust measurement of how non-state actors at the end of the twentieth century conceptualized legal reform on a continental scale. While the authors of the texts discussed in this dissertation were motivated by different political and cultural interests, they all, through Indigenous and Chican@ speculative fiction, identify international coalitions as essential to achieving their distinct goals; together, they express the belief that legal reform can be attained by mobilizing international alliances across diverse national and ethnic identities. | |
| dc.description.department | English | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2152/117001 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/43896 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | Speculative fiction | |
| dc.subject | International law | |
| dc.subject | Chican@ literature | |
| dc.subject | Indigenous literatures | |
| dc.subject | Human rights | |
| dc.subject | Cultural studies | |
| dc.title | Speculative coalitions : Indigenous and Chican@ futurisms, narrative form, and decolonial approaches to international law | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.material | text | |
| thesis.degree.department | English | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | English | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | The University of Texas at Austin | |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy |