Résumé Face à la mésentente disqualifiante autour de l’autochtonie des peuples, il faut reconsidérer fondamentalement les raisons de la revendication autochtone. En effet, être autochtone, ce n’est pas tant appartenir à un lieu qu’offrir la pensée d’une expérimentation de manières d’agir autrement dans le monde en partant des positions hétéroclites de l’écart et de la séparation. Ces positions, initialement comprises dans l’extériorité cosmologique des Peuples Autochtones, leur permettent ainsi de résister, en se revendiquant d’eux-mêmes, aux hégémonies des modes d’administration des (...) populations. (shrink)

If European metropolises witnessed the development, throughout the 19th century, of various forms of concentrationary assistance and radical isolation through penal colonies, colonial space was the site of an even more explicit formulation and experimentation with the creation and the exclusion of of an undesirable human surplus, notably in South Asia, where the social system of castes could provide powerful ideological foundations for the colonial thinking on exclusion. This article seeks to illustrate this by examining the creation of the category (...) of « criminal tribes » in India, during the last third of the 19th century. (shrink)

What are the reasons for the autochtonous claims ? Being autochtonous is not so much based on belonging to a particular location as on providing an experimentation in other forms of agency. These forms come from heterogeneous positions of gaps and separations, situated in the cosmological exteriority of the Autochtonous People, who thus resist the hegemonic administration of populations.