The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Development (Routledge International Handbooks)

This book aims to move the discussion out of the western framework and invert it to reveal and promote the indigenous perspective and practices that are currently taking hold globally. For too long Indigenous development has been written about by situating Indigenous peoples in a deficit/dependency persona/contexts and this book seeks to redress this imbalance. The book has a broad scope and flows well across multi-disciplinary areas, covering a wide scope of theoretical and applied research examining the challenges experienced around the sub-topics that make up Indigenous development. The only comprehensive volume that brings together the voices, experiences and imaginations of those working and commited to the topic of indigenous development. 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. 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.

• | Author: Katharina Ruckstuhl, Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj, John-Andrew Mcneish, Nancy Grey Postero
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Nov 30, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 512 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0367697424
• | ISBN-13: 9780367697426