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Deep Respect for Mother Earth: An Indigenous Perspective on One Health: In Conversation with Gisela Illescas Palma and Laura Vanessa Reyes
Indigenous peoples across the world share an intimate knowledge of ecosystems acquired from hundreds of generations of observation. Today, commercial...
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Indigenous knowledge and seasonal change: insights from the Tangkhul Naga in Northeast India
The study looks into indigenous knowledge and seasonal changes in the Tangkhul Naga community of Northeast India. This study employed a variety of...
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Healing Toward Interdependency: Building Skills and Resistance Through Immigrant and Indigenous Employment
Indigenous and immigrant communities have both been targeted by the Canadian government with employment interventions as a means of integration and...
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Do Large-Scale Forestry Companies Generate Prosperity in Indigenous Communities? The Socioeconomic Impacts of Tree Plantations in Southern Chile
Since the 1980s, forest plantations have expanded globally in response to commercial demand for wood products. Research has focused mainly on the...
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Relationship Between Identity Affirmation, Autonomy and Successful Aging in Chilean Urban Mapuche Indigenous Older Adults
Despite increased interest in the topic, the global rise in life expectancy has not been associated with better aging. This is influenced by the...
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Indigenous Knowledge, Aspiration, and Potential Application in Contemporary Fire Mitigation in Southwest Australia
Protection of biodiversity, human assets, and cultural heritage pose significant challenges to contemporary planning of bushfire mitigation...
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Indigenous Practice of Social Work in Northeast India: Issues and Challenges
India is an exemplary abode to more than 705 indigenous communities that vary with specific physical characteristics and cultural practices. The...
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Social Work with Remote Indigenous Community in Indonesia: Policy, Service, and Practice
Indonesia is an archipelagic country with thousands of tribe community groups that in Indonesian terminology are called remote indigenous...
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Intentional Communities
Intentional communities are an idea and practice as old as humankind itself. Once largely the preserve of utopian literature, intentional communities...
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Conservation, Ethics, and Indigenous Peoples
The issue of ethics arises frequently in the discussions of conservation-related resettlement as it affects indigenous peoples world-wide. Ethics are...
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Indigenous Political Representation in Mexico: Myths and Realities
In Mexico, citizenship and full rights were recognized for all indigenous, since the first constitution (1824). Soon after, a Zapotech indigenous man...
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Populism, Development, and Indigenous Resistance: Some Reflections from Jharkhand
The twenty-first century is marked with immense global warming and climate change. This can be seen as an anthropogenic crises, the result of almost...
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Indigenous institutions as adaptive measures to environmental dynamics: an ethnographic study of Loba Community of Upper Mustang, Nepal
This paper investigates how different institutions of Loba communities of the Upper Mustang work together and facilitate the community to cope with...
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Decolonial Social Work from an Indigenous Perspective
Indigenous social workers are increasingly defining a space in education and practice that is more than culturally competent but one that is...
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Development Elites, Impacted Communities, and Environmental Governance in Latin America
This special issue examines environmental governance, conceptualized as environmental protections, support for sustainable development, and the...
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Dynamics of indigenous community’s food and culture in the time of climate change in the Himalayan region
Global climate change has become the most significant challenge of modern times, confronting the lives and security of vulnerable societies around...
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Extractive Bargains and Indigenous Peoples: A Comparative Perspective
This chapter explores the concept of extractive bargains in the context of state relations with Indigenous peoples affected by large extractive...
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Indigenous Perspectives of Immigration Policy in a Settler Country
The immigration policies in settler colonial countries rarely consider Indigenous perspectives or solicit their input—a reality that is particularly...
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Indigenous Peoples, Intellectual Property and Sustainability
Intellectually Property is defined by the concept of intangible property created from human labour intertwined with Nature. This is the foundation...
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The Significance of Indigenous Field Education: an Analysis of the Social Workers Advancing Through Grounded Education Program
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is predicated on the inherent sovereign rights that all Indigenous...