ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies is the first comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of Indigenous scholarship. The book is ambitious in scope, ranging across disciplines and national boundaries, with particular reference to the lived conditions of Indigenous peoples in the first world.
The contributors are all themselves Indigenous scholars who provide critical understandings of indigeneity in relation to ontology (ways of being), epistemology (ways of knowing), and axiology (ways of doing) with a view to providing insights into how Indigenous peoples and communities engage and examine the worlds in which they are immersed. Sections include:
• Indigenous Sovereignty
• Indigeneity in the 21st Century
• Indigenous Epistemologies
• The Field of Indigenous Studies
• Global Indigeneity
This handbook contributes to the re-centring of Indigenous knowledges, providing material and ideational analyses of social, political, and cultural institutions and critiquing and considering how Indigenous peoples situate themselves within, outside, and in relation to dominant discourses, dominant postcolonial cultures and prevailing Western thought.
This book will be of interest to scholars with an interest in Indigenous peoples across Literature, History, Sociology, Critical Geographies, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Native Studies, Māori Studies, Hawaiian Studies, Native American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Race Studies, Queer Studies, Politics, Law, and Feminism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|122 pages
Disciplinary knowledge and epistemology
chapter 1|14 pages
The institutional and intellectual trajectories of Indigenous Studies in North America
chapter 7|10 pages
Critical Indigenous methodology and the problems of history
part 2|126 pages
Indigenous theory and method
chapter 10|16 pages
The emperor’s ‘new’ materialisms
chapter 13|14 pages
On the politics of Indigenous translation
chapter 14|14 pages
Auntie’s bundle
chapter 17|11 pages
“To be a good relative means being a good relative to everyone” 1
part 3|108 pages
Sovereignty
chapter 22|15 pages
Relational accountability in Indigenous governance
chapter 24|13 pages
Striking back
part 4|102 pages
Political economies, ecologies, and technologies
chapter 28|14 pages
Once were Maoists
chapter 29|13 pages
Resurgent kinships
chapter 31|11 pages
Diverse Indigenous environmental identities
chapter 32|16 pages
The ski or the wheel?
part 5|126 pages
Bodies, performance, and praxis