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This book explores how the landscapes in indigenous territories are rapidly changing due to increased global industrial demand. This deforestation and urbanization has isolated the Indigenous People from practising 'traditional ways of life.' Portrayed in the book are the Indigenous People's perspective of their Indigenous Knowledge about the enviornment, and why losing IK is a threat to humans, wildlife and nature.

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The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film

2024

Author(s): Blackmore E, Knopf K, Pearson W G, Wieser-Cox C

The Handbook is dedicated to bringing the work of Indigenous filmmakers around the world to a larger audience. By giving voice to transnational and transcultural Indigenous perspectives, this collection makes a significant contribution to the discourse on Indigenous filmmaking and provides an accessible overview of the contemporary state of Indigenous film.

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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 is a book about the dai, or traditional birth practitioner, and her place in the emerging therapeutic domain in colonial and contemporary India.

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This volume focuses on socio- spatial practices of indigenous communities in India. It explores the interrelation between the built environments and lifeworlds, i.e. practices, patterns, and structures of everyday life.

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The book explores the often-contentious relationship between Indigenous and other formerly colonized peoples and Archaeology through their own voices.

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The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Indigenous Peoples

2024

Author(s): Butler R, Carr A

The book presents an up-to-date, critical and comprehensive overview of established and emerging themes around Indigeneity and connections between Indigenous peoples and tourism development.

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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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Indigenous Reconciliation in Contemporary Taiwan: From Stigma to Hope

2024

Author(s): Simon SE, Hsieh J, Kang P

This book draws attention to the issues of Indigenous justice and reconciliation in Taiwan, exploring how Indigenous actors affirm their rights through explicitly political and legal strategies, but also through subtle forms of justice work in films, language instruction, museums, and handicraft production.

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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 research’s Eurocentric biases have shifted with broadened global horizons to facilitate new conversations and discourses in new post-colonial realities.