The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Development
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Key questions:
- How do Indigenous theories of justice, sovereignty, and relations between humans and non-humans inform their understandings of development?
- How have Indigenous people used Rights of Nature, legal pluralism, and global governance systems to push for their visions?
- How do Indigenous relations with the Earth inform their struggles against natural resource extraction?
- How have native peoples negotiated the dangers and benefits of capitalism to foster their own life projects?
- How do Indigenous peoples in diaspora and in cities around the world contribute to Indigenous futures?
- How can Indigenous intellectuals, artists, and scientists control their intellectual property and knowledge systems and bring into being meaningful collective life projects?
The book is intended for Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists, communities, scholars, and students. It provides a guide to current thinking across the disciplines that converge in the study of development, including geography, anthropology, environmental studies, development studies, political science, and Indigenous studies.
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Katharina Ruckstuhl is a MΔori (NgΔi Tahu and RangitΔne) Associate Professor at the Otago Business School, University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Irma A. VelΓ‘squez Nimatuj is a Maya-Kβicheβ Guatemalan journalist, social anthropologist, and international spokeswoman who has been at the forefront in struggles for respect for Indigenous cultures.
John-Andrew McNeish is Professor of International Environment and Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) in Oslo, Norway.
Nancy Postero is a Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of California San Diego in the United States.
