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Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy
This book examines how Indigenous Peoples around the world are demanding greater data sovereignty, and challenging the ways in which governments have historically used Indigenous data to develop policies and programs.
In the digital age, governments are increasingly dependent on data and data analytics to inform their policies and decision-making. However, Indigenous Peoples have often been the unwilling targets of policy interventions and have had little say over the collection, use and application of data about them, their lands and cultures. At the heart of Indigenous Peoples’ demands for change are the enduring aspirations of self-determination over their institutions, resources, knowledge and information systems.
With contributors from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, North and South America and Europe, this book offers a rich account of the potential for Indigenous data sovereignty to support human flourishing and to protect against the ever-growing threats of data-related risks and harms.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429273957, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
List of tables and figures
List of contributors
Chapter 1: Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Governance and the Link to Indigenous Policy, Maggie Walter and Stephanie Russo Carroll
Chapter 2: "Pushing the space": Data sovereignty and self-determination in Aotearoa NZ, Tahu Kukutai and Donna Cormack
Chapter 3: The Intersection of Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Closing the Gap policy in Australia, Raymond Lovett, Roxanne Jones and Bobby Maher
Chapter 4: Growing Pueblo Data Sovereignty, Michele Suina and Carnell T. Chosa
Chapter 5: Indigenous Data and Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand, Andrew Sporle, Maui Hudson and Kiri West
Chapter 6: Indigenous Self-Determination and Data Governance in the Canadian Policy Context, Robyn K. Rowe, Julie R. Bull and Jennifer D. Walker
Chapter 7: The Challenge of Indigenous Data in Sweden, Per Axelsson and Christina Storm Mienna
Chapter 8: Data Governance in the Basque Country: Victims and Memories of Violent Conflicts, Joxerramon Bengoetxea
Chapter 9: Indigenous Policy and Indigenous Data in Mexico, Oscar Luis Figueroa Rodríguez
Chapter 10: Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Quechan Education Data Sovereignty, Jameson D. Lopez
Chapter 11: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and the Role of Universities, Tennille L. Marley
Chapter 12: Narratives on Indigenous Victimhood: challenges of Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Colombia’s transitional setting, Gustavo Rojas- Páez and Colleen Alena O’Brien
Chapter 13: Kaupapa Māori-Informed Approaches to Support Data Rights and Self-Determination, Sarah-Jane Paine, Donna Cormack, Papaarangi Reid, Ricci Harris and Bridget Robson
Chapter 14: The Legal and Policy Dimensions of Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Rebecca Tsosie
Chapter 15: Embedding Systemic Change - Opportunities and Challenges, Maggie Walter, Stephanie Russo Carroll, Tahu Kukutai and Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear
Biography
Maggie Walter (Palawa) (PhD, FASSA) is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Publishing extensively in the field of Indigenous Data, including Indigenous Statistics (with C. Andersen 2013 Routledge), Maggie is a founding member of the Maiam nayri Wingara Indigenous Data Sovereignty Collective and the Global Indigenous Data Alliance.
Tahu Kukutai (Ngāti Tiipa, Ngāti Kinohaku, Te Aupōuri) (PhD) is Professor of Demography at the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, Aotearoa New Zealand. She co-edited Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Toward an Agenda and is a founding member of the Māori Data Sovereignty Network Te Mana Raraunga and the Global Indigenous Data Alliance.
Stephanie Russo Carroll (Ahtna-Native Village of Kluti-Kaah, Sicilian-descent) (DrPH, MPH) is Assistant Professor of Public Health and Associate Director for the Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona, USA. A researcher active at the nexus of Indigenous governance, the environment, community wellness and data, Stephanie co-founded the US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network and is a founding member and chair of the Global Indigenous Data Alliance.
Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear (Northern Cheyenne and Chicana) (PhD) is a social demographer who researches the intersection of Indigenous erasure, data and inequality. She is Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Desi co-founded the US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network and is a founding member of the Global Indigenous Data Alliance.
'Another valuable element of the collection is the repeated demonstration that the mining of Indigenous data by non-Indigenous nations is just the most recent example of colonial powers extracting resources from Indigenous People, communities, and nations. Making this connection helps detach the common misperception that data merely demonstrate objective facts and establishes that at best the current social construction of data prioritizes the needs of dominant society at the expense of Indigenous People.'
- JEFFREY D. BURNETTE, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rochester Institute of Technology. NAIS Journal
