Dorothy l hodgson explores how indigenous identity both in concept and in practice plays out in the context of economic liberalization transnational capitalism state restructuring and political democratization hodgson brings her long experience with maasai to her understanding of the shifting contours of their contemporary struggles for recognition representation rights and resources being maasai becoming indigenous is a deep and sensitive reflection on the possibilities and . Being maasai becoming indigenous postcolonial politics in a neoliberal world being maasai becoming indigenous postcolonial politics in a neoliberal world by dorothy l hodgson bloomington in indiana university press 2011 288 pp 2495 paperback 7000 hardback. Being maasai becoming indigenous postcolonial politics in a neoliberal world dorothy hodgson bloomington indiana university press 2011 gabrielle lynch university of warwick. Being maasai becoming indigenous is a deep and sensitive reflection on the possibilities and limits of transnational advocacy and the dilemmas of political action civil society and change in . Who claims to be indigenous and why dorothy l hodgson explores how indigenous identity both in concept and in practice plays out in the context of economic liberalization transnational capitalism state restructuring and political democratization hodgson brings her long experience with maasai to her understanding of the shifting contours of their contemporary struggles for recognition representation rights and resources