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Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy
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Abstract: This book examines how Indigenous Peoples around the world are demanding greater data sovereignty, and challenging the ways in which governments have historically used Indigenous data to develop policies and programs. In the digital age, governments ar...
Sacred Civics : Building Seven Generation Cities
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Abstract: Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construc...
Los pueblos indígenas: la lucha por el reconocimiento de sus derechos.
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Abstract: Existen, aproximadamente, 476 millones de indígenas en más de 90 países. Si bien constituyen más del 6% de la población mundial, representan alrededor del 15% de las personas que viven en pobreza extrema (Banco Mundial 2021). Sus territorios fueron obj...
Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature
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Abstract: National parks and other preserved spaces of nature have become iconic symbols of nature protection around the world. However, the worldviews of Indigenous peoples have been marginalized in discourses of nature preservation and conservation. As a resul...
War at the Margins : Indigenous Experiences in World War II
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Abstract: War at the Margins offers a broad comparative view of the impact of World War II on Indigenous societies. Using historical and ethnographic sources, Lin Poyer examines how Indigenous communities emerged from the trauma of the wartime era with social fo...
Mapping the Unmappable? : Cartographic Explorations with Indigenous Peoples in Africa
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Abstract: How can we map differing perceptions of the living environment? Mapping the Unmappable? explores the potential of cartography to communicate the relations of Africa's indigenous peoples with other human and non-human actors within their environments. T...
Islands of Hope : Indigenous Resource Management in a Changing Pacific
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Abstract: In the Pacific, as elsewhere, indigenous communities live with the consequences of environmental mismanagement and over-exploitation but rarely benefit from the short-term economic profits such actions may generate within the global system.National and...
Better Than Welfare? : Work and Livelihoods for Indigenous Australians After CDEP
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Abstract: The end of the very long-standing Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme in 2015 marked a critical juncture in Australian Indigenous policy history. For more than 30 years, CDEP had been among the biggest and most influential programs ...
La politización feminista e indígena en Abya Yala : Encrucijadas y discontinuidades
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Abstract: A partir de diálogos y recopilación de material documental en 7 países de 3 subregiones durante una década, Andrea Ivanna Gigena aborda en este ensayo la politización feminista en Latinoamérica y el Caribe / Abya Yala en su relación con las mujeres del...
Indigenous Efflorescence : Beyond Revitalisation in Sapmi and Ainu Mosir
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Abstract: Indigenous efflorescence refers to the surprising economic prosperity, demographic increase and cultural renaissance currently found amongst many Indigenous communities around the world. This book moves beyond a more familiar focus on'revitalisation'to...