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Understanding Indigenous Movements in Paraguay: The Case of the Xákmok Kásek Community and the Scales of Resistance
This chapter tells the story of the Xákmok Kásek community’s land claims from 1980 to 2022. On an institutional level, the democratic transition and...
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Decolonising Disability: Indigenous Māori Perspectives of Disability Research in the Modern Era
Qualitative research methods show promise in building shared understanding of Indigenous experiences of disability and have the potential to address...
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Innovations in Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand: Embedding Indigenous Wisdom Within Social Work Education and Practice
This chapter focuses on innovations in social work in Aotearoa New Zealand, with reference to the Indigenous wisdom of Māori. Māori master...
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How Has Population Health Been Amplified Through Integrated Indigenous Community Networks? Opportunities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Colombian government failed to report statistics systematically separated by ethnicity. Moreover, municipalities...
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Indigenous Political-Electoral Representation in Colombia (1990s–2020s): Stakes and Outcomes in Three Decades of Practice
Since the first election of mayors in 1988 and, above all, with the convening of the National Constituent Assembly in 1991, Indigenous people have...
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Linking the Global Indigenous Landscape: A Social Work Sustainability Perspective with Co-production of Knowledge
Social work aims to improve the quality of life for all people. Achieving this aim, however, entails expanding the lens, perspective, and approach of...
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Regulating the Duty to Consult: Exploring the Textually Mediated Nature of Indigenous Dispossession in Chile
The relationship between the Chilean state and Indigenous peoples has been historically tense. This is not surprising given how policy and other...
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Environmental Justice and Indigenous Environmental Justice
In this chapter we provide a broad overview of three dominant ways environmental justice is framed within the scholarship and consider how Indigenous...
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Indigenous Development
At the start of the twentieth century a new, alternative, development theory emerged in Latin America some thirty years after the dependency...
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Towards an Indigenous Environmental Sociology
Indigenous peoples have long held intimate relationships with the species and places often called ‘nature.’ Across our present location in North...
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Indigenous Seed Systems and Biocultural Heritage: The Andean Potato Park’s Approach to Seed Governance
In the Indigenous worldview, seeds are both biological entities and embodiments of immateriality: knowledge, culture and the sacred. Indigenous seed...
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Indigenous Archaeology, Community Archaeology, and Decolonial Archaeology: What are we Talking About? A Look at the Current Archaeological Theory in South America with Examples
In this article, I review the various forms of political commitment in the field of archaeology in South America over recent decades using three...
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Building Recognition for the Resource Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
Over the past several decades, inequality and poverty have challenged natural-resource-dependent communities, also known as Indigenous Peoples and...
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Assertion of Indigenous Identity in the Face of Climate Change: The Works of Two Millennial Paiwan Authors
This chapter aims to demonstrate how two Paiwan millennial authors, T**uay Ljivangerau and Ising Suaiyung, in focusing on climate change and the...
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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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Local—National—Global: Defining Indigenous Values of Murujuga’s Cultural Landscape in the Frame of International Patrimony
Murujuga, as the Dampier Archipelago (including Burrup Peninsula) National Heritage Listed Place is known to its traditional custodians, is on the...
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Interfacing Indigenous Knowledge with Scientific Knowledge for Improved Health Outcomes: Lessons from Eswatini
Indigenous knowledge (IK) covers a vast spectrum of knowledge used by indigenous societies/cultures and includes, among others, knowledge associated...
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Finding/Revealing/Creating Judaism’s Indigenous Core
The biblical traditions that birthed Judaism are indigenous to Canaan/Israel/Palestine. What this means, why it matters, and how it plays out both in...
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The Making of Indigenous Knowledge in Contemporary Taiwan: A Case Study of Three Indigenous Documentary Filmmakers
This paper focuses on three of the first Taiwanese Indigenous documentary film activists and their continuous cultural production since the 1990s:...