ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|75 pages
Retheorizing Development
chapter 6|9 pages
The Struggles of Tseltal Women and Caring for the Earth
part II|107 pages
Law, Self-Governance, and Security
chapter 9|9 pages
The Inca and Indigenous Development
chapter 16|9 pages
Reconceptualizing Gendered Violence
chapter 18|9 pages
The Implementation Paradox
chapter 19|10 pages
Indigenous-Led Spaces in Environmental Governance
part III|75 pages
Relations with the Earth
chapter 22|9 pages
Place attachment, Sacred Geography, and Solidarity
chapter 26|11 pages
Indigenous Peoples and International Institutions
part IV|66 pages
Engaging with Capitalism
chapter 33|6 pages
Indigenous Development
chapter 34|12 pages
External Facilitators, Tourism, and Indigenous Development
part V|81 pages
Migration and City Life
chapter 36|8 pages
From Runas to Universal Travelers
chapter 43|10 pages
Indigenous Urban Futurities
part VI|74 pages
Looking to the Future
chapter 48|11 pages
Indigenous youth in intercultural universities
part VII|4 pages
Concluding Voices