Books
The author recounts her experience of being removed from her family in Greenland as a young Inuk child, to be âre-educatedâ in Denmark and an orphanage in Greenland.ă
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 âone-stopâ 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.
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.
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.
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.ă
Deep-Time Images in the Age of Globalization: Rock Art in the 21st Century
2024
Author(s): AbadĂa 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 researchâs Eurocentric biases have shifted with broadened global horizons to facilitate new conversations and discourses in new post-colonial realities.
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.
Living with Nature, Cherishing Language: Indigenous Knowledges in the Americas Through History
2024
Author(s): Olko J, Radding C
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.
Reindeer Husbandry: Resilience in the Changing Arctic, Volume 2
2024
Author(s): Mathiesen SD, Eira IMG, Turi EI, Oskal A, Pogodaev M, Tonkopeeva M
This book focuses on climate change, indigenous reindeer husbandry and the underlying concept of connecting the traditional knowledge of indigenous reindeer herders in the Arctic with the latest research findings of the worldâs leading academics.
Geographies of New Caledonia-Kanaky: Environments, Politics and Cultures
2024
Author(s): Kowasch M, Batterbury SPJ
This book provides a unique overview of geographical, historical, political and environmental issues facing the French overseas territory New Caledonia, also called âKanakyâ by the indigenous Kanak people, who outnumber citizens of European and other origin.