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Demonstrating how complex religious identities and practices of Nigerian-African Christians can balance mission-influenced Christianity with indigenous religious traditions and identities, this book recognises the importance of appropriating the powers of indigenous cultures, ingenuity and creativity in the construction and preservation of community identities. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Christian theology, indigenous religious practice and African lived religion.

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The author recounts her experience of being removed from her family in Greenland as a young Inuk child, to be ‘re-educated’ in Denmark and an orphanage in Greenland. 

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Indigenous Peoples and the Law

2019

Author(s): Silva DF, Harris M

Drawing on a wide variety of materials from a broad range of disciplines and theoretical approaches, the collection gathers canonical and cutting-edge major works in a ‘one-stop’ resource to enable users to understand how the law Indigenous Peoples encounter has been transformed from an oppressive, rights-denying system to a site of contestation and for the articulation of claims.

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Research Papers/Articles
Unlocking Private Sector Investment into Natural Climate Solutions in India

2024

Author(s): World Economic Forum

This report analyses the business case for investing in natural climate solutions (NCS) in India, based on a survey of some of the country’s largest companies.

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The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Contemporary Evaluation

2023

Author(s): Short D, Lennox C, Burger J, Hohmann J

This book offers an insightful and nuanced contemporary evaluation of the progress and challenges that indigenous peoples have faced in securing the implementation of this new instrument, as well as its normative impact, at both the national and international levels.

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The book explores current challenges for music education in relation to wider philosophical and political debates, and seeks to find a way forward for the field by rethinking the nature and value of epistemic knowledge in the wake of postmodern critiques.

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The Routledge Handbook of Australian Indigenous Peoples and Futures

2023

Author(s): Carlson B, Day M, O'Sullivan S, Kennedy T

This book offers a powerful overview of emergent and topical research in the field of global Indigenous studies. It addresses current concerns of Australian Indigenous peoples of today, and explores opportunities to develop, and support the development of, Indigenous resilience and solidarity to create a fairer, safer, more inclusive future. 

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Deep-Time Images in the Age of Globalization: Rock Art in the 21st Century

2024

Author(s): Abadía OM, Conkey MW, McDonald J

This book explores the impact of globalization on the contemporary study of deep-time art. The volume explores how early rock art research’s Eurocentric biases have shifted with broadened global horizons to facilitate new conversations and discourses in new post-colonial realities.

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Area-Based Management of Shipping: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives

2024

Author(s): Chircop A, Floris Goerlandt, Ronald Pelot, Claudio Aporta

This book fills a gap in the literature on shipping in a number of cross-cutting fields (including marine transportation law and policy, law of the sea, Indigenous rights, marine environmental management, and risk and safety studies). Moreover, the book includes a focus on the consideration of Indigenous rights in shipping, a topic of emerging importance.

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This book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of nature and culture through historical processes of environmental change in North, Central, and South America and the nurturing of local knowledge through ancestral languages and oral traditions.