Indigeneity and the Decolonizing Gaze

<p>Against the long historical backdrop of 1492 Columbus and the Conquest Robert Stam's wide-ranging study traces a trajectory from the representation of indigenous peoples by others to self-representation by indigenous peoples often as a form of resistance and rebellion to colonialist or neoliberal capitalism across an eclectic range of forms of media arts and social philosophy. <p/>Spanning national and transnational media in countries including the US Brazil Canada France Germany and Italy Stam orchestrates a dialogue between the western mediated gaze on the 'Indian' and the indigenous gaze itself especially as incarnated in the burgeoning movement of indigenous media that is the use of audio-visual-digital media for the social and cultural purposes of indigenous peoples themselves. Drawing on examples from cinema literature music video painting and stand-up comedy Stam shows how indigenous artists intellectuals and activists are responding to the multiple crises - climatological economic political racial and cultural - confronting the world.</p>