1st Edition
Acknowledging Indigenous Knowledge Voices of Tropical Forest People
This book explores how the landscapes in indigenous territories are rapidly changing due to increased global industrial demand. This deforestation and urbanization has isolated the Indigenous People from practising 'traditional ways of life.' Portrayed in the book are the Indigenous People's perspective of their Indigenous Knowledge about the enviornment, and why losing IK is a threat to humans, wildlife and nature. Insight is shared into why acknowledging IK as a science can help solve climate change, food and nutrition insecurity and increasing new types of pandemic, through evidence-based stories from Indigenous people.
Features:
- Bridges the fractured space between science and nature.
- Documents the perspectives of Indigenous Peoples about their ancestral knowledge.
- Provides ethnographic qualitative case studies of forest-dwelling Indigenous Peoples over a 19 year period.
- Covers largely remote indigenous territories of ten tropical countries in the global south.
- Provides evidence-based stories examining Indigenous Knowledge's role in the tropics in preserving diverse landscapes, and providing nature-based solutions.
Foreword - Prof.dr. Bernd van der Meulen
Chapter 1
Acknowledging Indigenous Knowledge: Introduction
Chapter 2
‘Nature-Based Knowledge’ Aligning Science and Wisdom
Chapter 3
Extractive Industries Mining Way in Indigenous and Local Communities
Chapter 4
Food as Commodity – ‘Super’ Food Insecurity of Indigenous Peoples: Analysis from Asia, Africa and Latin America
Chapter 5
Pastoralists, Nomadic Movements, and Identity in Tropical Grasslands
Chapter 6
Factory Schools: Erasing Children’s Indigenous Knowledge and Languages
Chapter 7
Indigenous Peoples and Wildlife Coexistence in Tropical Mountains: Socio-Cultural Impact
Chapter 8
Communicating the Art of Bridging Indigenous Knowledge with Science and Policy
Biography
Purabi Bose, a citizen of India and has Santhal tribe/ Adivasi ancestry, is a social anthropologist and environmental scientist with a research focus on forest tenure and land rights of Indigenous Peoples, climate adaptation, and food security in Asia, East Africa, and Latin America. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer of Forest Policy at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden.
