Knowledge Hub
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Drought Preparedness in Rural Umzingwane in Zimbabwe
2023
Author(s): Mandiopera WD, Ndlovu T, Kai G
The study found that IKS informs early detection of drought and response strategies in rural Umzingwane. In predicting drought hazards, communities rely on observing animal behaviour, fruiting of trees and growth of certain species in certain seasons.
Beyond Sustainability: Indigenous Knowledge Systems for Locally and Globally Renewing Earth Relations
2023
Author(s): Huaman ES, Walker J
The article directs reader attention to Indigenous Knowledge Systems that interrupt mainstream definitions and applications of sustainable development through grounding in situ and close attention to contexts, cultural practices, and languages that propose human activity for life’s sake.
Pukhlein Recipe, Meghalaya Special Rice Jaggery Snack
2020
Author(s): Banerjee K, Banerjee K
Pukhlein is a traditional rice flour recipe that owes it's origin to Meghalaya and is known for its palatable flavors all around the country.
This talk focused on the impacts of historical traumas and how the past directly impacts our present day conditions individually and collectively.
Indigenous Knowledge Production: Navigating Humanity within a Western World (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
2018
Author(s): Waters MW
The book specifically demonstrates the use of autobiographical ethnicity as a methodological approach, where the writer draws on lived experience and ethnic background towards creative and academic writing.
Old Ways for New Days: Indigenous Survival and Agency in Climate Changed Times
2022
Author(s): Nursey-Bray M, Palmer R, et al.
The book first introduces readers to Indigenous peoples and their struggles related to climate change, describing the impacts of climate change on their everyday lives and the adaptation strategies currently undertaken to address them.
The Indigenous Identity of the South Saami: Historical and Political Perspectives on a Minority within a Minority
2019
Author(s): Hermanstrand H, Kolberg A, Nilssen T R, Sem L
This open access book is a novel contribution in two ways: It is a multi-disciplinary examination of the indigenous South Saami people in Fennoscandia, a social and cultural group that often is overlooked as it is a minority within the Saami minority.
Indigenous Law and the Politics of Kincentricity and Orality
2023
Author(s): Kearney A, Bradley J, Dodd V, a-Marrngawi DN, a-Muluwamara MT, Dimanyurru GF, a-Karrakayny A
This Palgrave Pivot strives to recount and understand Indigenous Law, as set within a remote community in northern Australia. It pays close attention to the realpolitik and high-level political functioning of Indigenous Laws, which inspires a discussion of how this Law models the relational, influences governance and emplaces people in an ordered kincentric lifeworld.
The Indigenous State Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia
2017
Author(s): Postero N
This book examines the successes and failures that have followed in the ten years since Morales’s election. While the Morales government has made many changes that have benefited Bolivia’s majority indigenous population, it has also consolidated power and reinforced extractivist development models.
Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism: Ethnographies from South America
2019
Author(s): Ødegaard CV, AndÃa JJR
Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the book  discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological dynamics in the Andes and Amazonia.