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This book examines the successes and failures that have followed in the ten years since Morales’s election. While the Morales government has made many changes that have benefited Bolivia’s majority indigenous population, it has also consolidated power and reinforced extractivist development models.

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Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism: Ethnographies from South America

2019

Author(s): Ødegaard CV, Andía JJR

Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the book  discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological dynamics in the Andes and Amazonia.

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The book includes in-depth case studies across different geographic spaces. Contains contributions from a range of young to eminent scholars, researchers and policymakers. It highlights new insights from social science, environmental science and sustainable development and synthesizes research on society, ecology and technology with sustainability, all in a single resource.

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This highly original study puts forward the notion that every culture has its own ways of assembling local knowledge, thereby creating space through the linking of people, practices and places.

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This volume brings together prominent international scholars involved in both Western and indigenous social work across the globe - including James Midgley, Linda Briskman, Alean Al-Krenawi and John R. Graham - to discuss some of the most significant global trends and issues relating to indigenous and cross-cultural social work.

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After colonization, indigenous people faced an extractive property rights regime for both their land and knowledge. This book outlines that regime, and how the symbolic function of international intellectual property continues today to assist states to enclose indigenous peoples' knowledge.

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Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives

2009

Author(s): Sleeper-Smith S

This interdisciplinary and international collection of essays illuminates the importance and effects of Indigenous perspectives for museums. The contributors challenge and complicate the traditionally close colonialist connections between museums and nation-states and urge more activist and energized roles for museums in the decades ahead.

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Indigenous Historical Knowledge, Volume I: Kautilya and His Vocabulary

2015

Author(s): Gautam PK, Mishra S, Gupta A

This book is the first in a series of three volumes on “Kautilya and His Vocabulary” as a part of the “Indigenous Historical Knowledge” project undertaken by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. The edited volumes contain select papers presented in a series of workshop, national and international seminars organised by the institute.

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Indigenous Historical Knowledge: Kautilya and His Vocabulary (Volume II)

2016

Author(s): Gautam PK, Mishra S, Gupta A

This book is the second in a series of three volumes on “Kautilya and His Vocabulary” as a part of the “Indigenous Historical Knowledge” project undertaken by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. The edited volumes contain select papers presented in a series of workshops, national and international seminars organised by the Institute.

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Indigenous Knowledge: Enhancing Its Contribution to Natural Resources Management

2017

Author(s): Sillitoe P, Ainslie A, Amanor K

By drawing together strands of biocultural diversity research into natural resources management, this book: - Provides an overview of conceptual issues around IK and its contributions to sustainable agriculture and environmental conservation; - Addresses key themes via case studies from bioculturally diverse regions of the world; - Displays a wide range of methodologies and outlines a possible agenda to guide future work.