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Diplomacy of the dispossessed: indigenous diplomatic agency in the age of climate displacement — A study of Māori & Orang Suku Laut

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openalex:w7160467622

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Iffah Qistina Irwan

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2026

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en

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dissertation

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The escalating global climate crisis compounds the vulnerability of Indigenous communities—a precarity driven not merely by extreme weather events, but by state-led developmentalism and dispossession. Mainstream International Relations and climate frameworks traditionally address this through a rigid, state-centric lens, categorising Indigenous polities as civil society stakeholders rather than sovereign actors. This categorization limits Indigenous agency, risking consultative mechanisms becoming secondary forms of dispossession. To counter this dismissal of Indigenous sovereignty, this dissertation reframes Indigenous communities not as passive victims, but as strategic diplomatic actors. Grounded in Critical Geopolitics, the research examines how Indigenous polities operate across spatial and epistemic frontiers to actively contest the state’s cartographic authority. Employing a ‘Most Different’ comparative design, the study contrasts two groups at opposite ends of the state inclusion spectrum. It analyses the ‘insider’ agency of New Zealand’s institutionalised Māori, who leverage performative statehood to reshape the state’s legal architecture from within, specifically by securing legal personhood for natural environments. This is contrasted with the ‘outsider’ agency of Indonesia’s structurally marginalised Orang Suku Laut, a maritime polity navigating profound bureaucratic erasure by deploying spatial defiance, counter-mapping, and transnational coalition-building. Ultimately, this dissertation demonstrates that genuine climate justice cannot be achieved through mere consultation. Moving towards a truly decolonial horizon requires abandoning rigid state cartography in favour of structural and constitutional transformation—one that validates Indigenous socio-ecological sciences and allows these communities to structurally redefine the diplomatic map itself.

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W7160467622

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OpenAlex · Document 1 · Document 2

• Document · https://hdl.handle.net/10356/214624
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W7160467622

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