ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses what kinds of indigenous space the Russian Federation is discursively producing via its federal legislation. It considers the rationales of justice and certainty as impulses guiding the evolving legal discourses of indigenous space. The chapter attends only to legal production of indigenous space at federal level. Legal productions of indigenous space at sub-federal level have received modest attention, but deserve further inquiry, as does the production of indigenous space by means other than law. By state re-territorialization the author refers to strategies used by the Russian Federation in the post-Soviet period to exercise power over its territory, through the partitioning of this territory and the controlled allocation of rights over these territorial units to groups and individuals, including in ways that are different from those pursued by the Soviet Union. Growing international concern over indigenous rights caused the Russian state to include re-conceptualization of indigenous spaces as small part of its extensive land and resource reform programme.
