Books
Justice, Indigenous Peoples, and Canada: A History of Courage and Resilience
2023
Author(s): Devy G N, Davis G V
The book brings together the work of a number of leading researchers to provide a broad overview of criminal justice issues that Indigenous people in Canada have faced historically and continue to face today. Both Indigenous and Canadian scholars situate current issues of justice for Indigenous peoples, broadly defined, within the context of historical realities and ongoing developments.
Indigenous Pathways into Social Research Voices of a New Generation
2013
Author(s): Mertens D M, Cram F, Chilisa B
This book chronicles the life experiences of more than thirty indigenous scientists hailing from six continents and representing a wide array of academic fields. They articulate the difficulties, contradictions, and oppression they have encountered, the approaches they employed to surmount them, and the ways in which their contributions have resulted in more significant scholarly investigations and a fairer community.
The Dai and the Indigenous: Notes on the Appearance and Disappearance of a Figure in the Therapeutics of a Nation
2024
Author(s): Achuthan A
This is a book about the dai, or traditional birth practitioner, and her place in the emerging therapeutic domain in colonial and contemporary India.
Indigenous Invisibility in the City: Successful Resurgence and Community Development Hidden in Plain Sight
2022
Author(s): Howard-Wagner D
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
The Sociality of Indigenous Dance in Alaska: Happiness, Tradition, and Environment among Yupik on St. Lawrence Island and Iñupiat in Utqiaġvik
2022
Author(s): Ikuta H
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.
This edited collection argues for the importance of recovering Indigenous participation within global networks of imperial power and wider histories of "transnational" connections.