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The book contextualizes the significant social change in Indigenous life circumstances and resurgence that came out of social movements in cities. It is about Indigenous resurgence and community development by First Nations people for First Nations people in cities.

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Analysing how Indigenous Peoples come to be identifiable as bearers of human rights, this book considers how individuals and communities claim the right of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) as Indigenous peoples.

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Knowing from the Indigenous North: Sámi Approaches to History, Politics and Belonging

2019

Author(s): Eriksen T H, Valkonen S, Valkonen J

Focusing on the Sápmi region of Northern Europe as a point of departure, this book enriches and sharpens the concept of 'the North.' It combines detailed empirical research on the Sámi people and their life-worlds with theoretical contributions from leading scholars

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Reports
Travel & Tourism Development Index 2024: Insight Report May 2024

2024

Author(s): World Economic Forum, University of Surrey

The index provides a strategic benchmarking tool for business, governments, international organizations and others to develop the Travel & Tourism sector.

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Planning in Indigenous Australia: From Imperial Foundations to Postcolonial Futures

2017

Author(s): Jackson S, Porter L, Johnson L C

The book maps the enduring effects of colonisation. It provides a new historical account of colonial planning practices and rewrites the urban planning histories of major Australian cities.

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Heritage, Indigenous Doing, and Wellbeing: Voices of Country

2024

Author(s): Sheehan N, Jones D S, Creighton J, Harrington S

The book presents an Aboriginal Australian relational understanding of the world that offers a counter-narrative to the Western notion of heritage and new insights into the potential for sustaining the complex systems that support all life.

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This book examines the indigenous dances and the social dynamics related to dance practices among the Yupik people on St. Lawrence Island and the Iñupiat people in Utqiaġvik, Northern Alaska.

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Indigenous Networks: Mobility, Connections and Exchange

2019

Author(s): Carey J, Lydon J

This edited collection argues for the importance of recovering Indigenous participation within global networks of imperial power and wider histories of "transnational" connections.

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Drawing on both Maori and Western philosophies, this book demonstrates how the metaphysics of presence is both related and opposed to the indigenous notion of worldedness.

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This volume offers a clear message for genocide scholars and others concerned with crimes against humanity and genocide: much greater attention must be paid to the plight of all peoples, indigenous and otherwise, no matter how small in scale, how little-known, how "invisible" or hidden from view.