Books
The Indigenous State Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia
2017
Author(s): Postero N
This book examines the successes and failures that have followed in the ten years since Moralesâs election. While the Morales government has made many changes that have benefited Boliviaâs majority indigenous population, it has also consolidated power and reinforced extractivist development models.
Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism: Ethnographies from South America
2019
Author(s): Ădegaard CV, AndĂa 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.
Indigenous People and Nature: Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability
2022
Author(s): Chatterjee U., Eds.
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.
Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge
2000
Author(s): Turnbull D
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.
Indigenous Social Work around the World: Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice
2010
Author(s): Gray M, Coates J
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.
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.
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.
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 âKautilya and His Vocabularyâ as a part of the âIndigenous Historical Knowledgeâ 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.
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 âKautilya and His Vocabularyâ as a part of the âIndigenous Historical Knowledgeâ 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.
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.