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Indigenous Peoples And The Right To Culture: A Critical Review Of Karen Engle's The Elusive Promise Of Indigenous Development, Lindsay N. Beck

Lindsay N Beck

What is the potential for claims based on the right to culture to ameliorate the conditions of indigenous peoples? In what ways does a right-to-culture strategy limit the potential of indigenous economic development? Karen Engle tackles these questions in her study, The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy. Engle’s study is impressive and engaging in its questioning of the ways in which advocacy strategies impact economic development. This critical review, however, argues that Engle too readily dismisses self-determination, conceived as a human right rather than a right associated with political power, as a viable alternative to the right …