CFP: Special Session of the APA Committee on International Cooperation at the APA Pacific Division Meeting 2015

American Philosophical Association Committee on International Cooperation

“Moral, Social, and Political Questions Concerning Indigenous Peoples”

2015 APA Pacific Division Meeting Special Session

Call for Papers

Moral, social, and political questions concerning the nature and disposition of indigenous peoples in modern nation-states have not been central to the recent work of contemporary moral, social and political philosophers (with a few notable exceptions).  However, conflicts between authorities in modern nation-states and indigenous peoples, together with disparities in wealth, income, and opportunity, persist across the modern world. 

The APA Committee on International Cooperation will hold a special session on these issues at the next meeting of the Pacific Division of the APA in Vancouver, BC, in April 2015.  We welcome proposals for presentations of colloquium length (3000 words).  Please send proposals, limited to 500 words, to Mark Jensen ([email protected]) no later than October 1st, 2014.

Presentation Topics Might Include…

What makes a people indigenous?

Should indigenous people have special rights?

What forms of rectificatory justice are owed to indigenous peoples?

Do indigenous peoples and their cultures merit special protections?

What does sovereignty look like for indigenous people inside a modern nation-state?

Do all forms of indigenous peoples’ social and cultural practices deserve respect?

Can the social and cultural practices of indigenous peoples be squared with the social and cultural practices thought to be essential for citizenship in the modern nation-state—especially the modern, capitalist, liberal and democratic nation-state?

Can the moral, social, and political issues concerning indigenous peoples be meaningfully distinguished from the issues that face other minority groups?