Agency at the Margin: Indigenous Responses to State Expansion in a Context of Ongoing Conflict

Annina Mirjam Hirzel
ETH Zurich.
This thesis comprises an exploratory analysis of state expansion, driven by armed conflict and a keen interest in natural resources, and the responses thereto by local indigenous communities. Asking how does state expansion in a context of ongoing conflict shape indigenous agency?’, it examines whether and when responses are oriented towards’ and as such in acceptance or acquiescence of the state or away’ from or in opposition to the state. In doing so, the thesis focuses on two analytic dimensions, namely subjective inequality and identity, analysing how the expansion of the state influences the perception of inequality as well as local definitions of identity, and in turn, how inequality‐ and identity‐related grievances relate to agency, respectively its direction vis‐à‐vis the state
URL: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000330634
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000330634
Hirzel, Annina Mirjam. 2018. “Agency at the Margin: Indigenous Responses to State Expansion in a Context of Ongoing Conflict.” ETH Zurich.
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   title = {Agency at the Margin: Indigenous Responses to State Expansion in a Context of Ongoing Conflict},
   author = {Hirzel, Annina Mirjam},
   school = {ETH Zurich},
   type = {{PhD} dissertation},
   doi = {10.3929/ethz-b-000330634},
   url = {https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000330634},
   year = {2018},
   abstract = {This thesis comprises an exploratory analysis of state expansion, driven by armed conflict and a keen interest in natural resources, and the responses thereto by local indigenous communities. Asking \Elzreapos how does state expansion in a context of ongoing conflict shape indigenous agency?', it examines whether and when responses are oriented \Elzreapos towards' and as such in acceptance or acquiescence of the state or \Elzreapos away' from or in opposition to the state. In doing so, the thesis focuses on two analytic dimensions, namely subjective inequality and identity, analysing how the expansion of the state influences the perception of inequality as well as local definitions of identity, and in turn, how inequality- and identity-related grievances relate to agency, respectively its direction vis-\`{a}-vis the state}
}