This Handbook inverts the lens on development, asking what Indigenous communities across the globe hope and build for themselves. In contrast to earlier writing on development, this volume focuses on Indigenous peoples as inspiring theorists and potent political actors who resist the ongoing destruction of their livelihoods.
This Handbook inverts the lens on development, asking what Indigenous communities across the globe hope and build for themselves. In contrast to earlier writing on development, this volume focuses on Indigenous peoples as inspiring theorists and potent political actors who resist the ongoing destruction of their livelihoods. To foster their own visions of development, they look from the present back to Indigenous pasts and forward to Indigenous futures.
Key questions:
- How do Indigenous theories of justice, sovereignty, and relations between humans and non-humans inform their understandings of development?
- How have Indigenous people used Rights of Nature, legal pluralism, and global governance systems to push for their visions?
- How do Indigenous relations with the Earth inform their struggles against natural resource extraction?
- How have native peoples negotiated the dangers and benefits of capitalism to foster their own life projects?
- How do Indigenous peoples in diaspora and in cities around the world contribute to Indigenous futures?
- How can Indigenous intellectuals, artists, and scientists control their intellectual property and knowledge systems and bring into being meaningful collective life projects?
The book is intended for Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists, communities, scholars, and students. It provides a guide to current thinking across the disciplines that converge in the study of development, including geography, anthropology, environmental studies, development studies, political science, and Indigenous studies.
Part I Retheorizing Development
Chapter 1 Indigenous Development as
Flourishing Intergenerational Relationships
Chapter 2 Violent Colonialism:
The Doctrine of Discovery and its Historical Continuity
Chapter 3
Capitalism and Development
Chapter 4 Refusing Development and the Death of
Indigenous Life
Chapter 5 Two-Spirit Issues in Development
Chapter 6 The
struggles of Tseltal women and Caring for the Earth: reflections on
sustaining life-existence in times of the pandemic
Chapter 7 Towards a
Plurinational State in Guatemala
Chapter 8 Pluck the Stars from the Sky:
The Pluriverse of Adivasi Health in India Part II Law, Self-Governance, and
Security
Chapter 9 The Inca and Indigenous Development: Recalling A Native
American Empire in South America
Chapter 10 Indians and the State:
Negotiating Progress, Modernity, and Development in Bolivia
Chapter 11 The
Constituent Process in Chile (2019-2022) from the Perspective of Indigenous
Peoples
Chapter 12 Negotiating Legal Pluralism and Indigenous Development:
Lessons From BoliviaChapter 13 Sįmi Political Shifts from assimilation,
via invisibility to indigenization?
Chapter 14 Reflections on a career in
Indigenous Intellectual Property Ng Taonga Tuku Iho
Chapter 15 Maya
Kiche community responses to gender violence in Santa Cruz del Quiché,
Guatemala
Chapter 16 Reconceptualizing Gendered Violence: Indigenous
Womens Life Projects and Solutions
Chapter 17 Indigenous Autonomy:
Opportunities and Pitfalls
Chapter 18 The implementation paradox:
Ambiguities of prior consultation and free, prior, and informed consent
(FPIC) for Indigenous peoples agency in resource extraction in Latin America
Chapter 19 Indigenous-led spaces in environmental governance: Implications
for self-determined development Part III Relations with the Earth
Chapter
20 The Role of Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Planetary Well-Being
Chapter 21 Building Kiai Futures: Puuhonua o Puuhuluhulu and Protecting
Mauna Kea
Chapter 22 Place attachment, sacred geography, and solidarity:
Indigenous conceptions of development as meaningful life in Mongolia and
Norway
Chapter 23 Development & Territorial Control
Chapter 24 Indigenous
Peoples: Extraction and Extractivism
Chapter 25 Rights of Nature: Law as a
Tool for Indigenous-led Development
Chapter 26 Indigenous Peoples and
International Institutions: Indigenous Peoples Diplomacies at the United
Nations
Chapter 27 Science, Technology and Indigenous Development Part IV
Engaging with Capitalism
Chapter 28 Colonial Potosķ: Setting the stage for
global capitalist development
Chapter 29 Mapuches disagreements with
development: a critical perspective from local spaces
Chapter 30 Ng Whai
Take: Reframing Indigenous Development
Chapter 31 Chickasaw Spring:
Economic Development and Resurgent Sovereignty
Chapter 32 Ser Camaleón:
Indigenous Community-Based Tourism for Emancipatory Futures
Chapter 33
Indigenous Development: The Role of Indigenous Values and Traditions for
Restoring Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Chapter 34 External Facilitators,
Tourism, and Indigenous Development: Insights from Bangladesh Part V
Migration and City Life
Chapter 35 Indigenous Mobilities
Chapter 36 From
Runas to Universal Travelers: The Case of the Kichwa Nationality-Otavalo
Pueblo. A Liberating Experience of Development
Chapter 37 Imazighen of
France: Developing Indigeneity in Diaspora
Chapter 38 Communal Labor and
Sharing Systems
Chapter 39 Miskitu Migrants Facing the Pandemic Together in
Panama
Chapter 40 Fighting and Surviving in Oaxacalifornia
Chapter 41
Lessons from Cahokia: Indigeneity and the Future of the Settler City
Chapter
42 Designing Decolonization? Architecture and Indigenous Development
Chapter 43 Urban Futurities: Identity, Place and Property Development by
Indigenous Communities in the City Part VI Looking to the Future
Chapter 44
Literatures in Indigenous Languages and Education as Development
Chapter 45
Giving Form to Indigenous Futures Through Monumental Architecture, Art, and
Technology
Chapter 46 Fourth World Filmic Interventions
Chapter 47
Indigenous Online
Chapter 48 Indigenous Youth in Intercultural
Universities: New Sites of Knowledge Production and Leadership Training in
Mexico and Latin America
Chapter 49 Indigenous Data Futures: Empowering the
Next One-Hundred Generations
Chapter 50 Climate change and sustainable
development in the Pacific: the case of Samoa Part VII Concluding Voices
Chapter 51 The Power of Our Present Futures
Chapter 52 In Cańamomo
Lomaprieta, We Grow Life
Katharina Ruckstuhl is a Mori (Ngi Tahu and Rangitne) Associate Professor at the Otago Business School, University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Irma A. Velįsquez Nimatuj is a Maya-Kiche Guatemalan journalist, social anthropologist, and international spokeswoman who has been at the forefront in struggles for respect for Indigenous cultures.
John-Andrew McNeish is Professor of International Environment and Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) in Oslo, Norway.
Nancy Postero is a Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of California San Diego in the United States.
