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Note publique d'information : La 4e de couverture indique : "What does it mean to say that Native peoples exist
in the present? In Beyond Settler Time Mark Rifkin investigates the dangers of seeking
to include Indigenous peoples within settler temporal frameworks. Claims that Native
peoples should be recognized as coeval with Euro-Americans, Rifkin argues, implicitly
treat dominant non-native ideologies and institutions as the basis for defining time
itself. How, though, can Native peoples be understood as dynamic and changing while
also not assuming that they belong to a present inherently shared with non-natives?
Drawing on physics, phenomenology, queer studies, and postcolonial theory, Rifkin
develops the concept of "settler time" to address how Native peoples are both consigned
to the past and inserted into the present in ways that normalize non-native histories,
geographies, and expectations. Through analysis of various kinds of texts, including
government documents, film, fiction, and autobiography, he explores how Native experiences
of time exceed and defy such settler impositions. In underscoring the existence of
multiple temporalities, Rifkin illustrates how time plays a crucial role in Indigenous
peoples{u2019} expressions of sovereignty and struggles for self-determination."