1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook 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.
Key questions:
- How do Indigenous theories of justice, sovereignty, and relations between humans and non-humans inform their understandings of development?
- How have Indigenous people used Rights of Nature, legal pluralism, and global governance systems to push for their visions?
- How do Indigenous relations with the Earth inform their struggles against natural resource extraction?
- How have native peoples negotiated the dangers and benefits of capitalism to foster their own life projects?
- How do Indigenous peoples in diaspora and in cities around the world contribute to Indigenous futures?
- How can Indigenous intellectuals, artists, and scientists control their intellectual property and knowledge systems and bring into being meaningful collective life projects?
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.
Introduction: Indigenous Futurities: Rethinking Indigenous Development
Katharina Ruckstuhl, Irma A. Velasquez Nimatuj, John Andrew McNeish and Nancy Postero
Part I – Retheorizing Development
Nancy Postero, Editor
Chapter 1 – Indigenous Development as Flourishing Intergenerational Relationships
Krushil Watene
Chapter 2 – Violent Colonialism: The Doctrine of Discovery and its Historical Continuity
Rigoberto Quemé-Chay
Chapter 3 – Capitalism and Development
Sarah A. Radcliffe
Chapter 4 – Refusing Development and the Death of Indigenous Life
Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez
Chapter 5 – Two-Spirit Issues in Development
Margaret Robinson and Naomi Bird
Chapter 6 – The struggles of Tseltal women and Caring for the Earth: reflections on sustaining life-existence in times of the pandemic
Vicky Velasco and Mariana Mora
Chapter 7 – Towards a Plurinational State in Guatemala
Ollantay Itzamná
Chapter 8 – Pluck the Stars from the Sky: The Pluriverse of Adivasi Health in India
Megan Moodie
Part II – Law, Self-Governance, and Security
John-Andrew McNeish, Editor
Chapter 9 – The Inca and Indigenous Development: Recalling A Native American Empire in South America
Paul Goldstein
Chapter 10 – Indians and the State: Negotiating Progress, Modernity, and Development in Bolivia
Carmen Soliz
Chapter 11 – The Constituent Process in Chile (2019-2022) from the Perspective of Indigenous Peoples
Juan Jorge Faundes Peñafiel
Chapter 12 – Negotiating Legal Pluralism and Indigenous Development: Lessons From Bolivia
Magali Vienca Copa Pabón, Amy Kennemore, Elizabeth López Canela
Chapter 13 – Sámi Political Shifts: from assimilation, via invisibility to indigenization?
Eva Josefsen
Chapter 14 – Reflections on a career in Indigenous Intellectual Property Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho
Aroha Te Pareake Mead in conversation with Sequoia Short
Chapter 15 – Maya K’iche’ community responses to gender violence in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala
Rachel Sieder
Chapter 16 – Reconceptualizing Gendered Violence: Indigenous Women’s Life Projects and Solutions
Lynn Stephen
Chapter 17 – Indigenous Autonomy: Opportunities and Pitfalls
John Cameron and Wilfredo Plata
Chapter 18 – The implementation paradox: Ambiguities of prior consultation and free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) for Indigenous peoples’ agency in resource extraction in Latin America
Riccarda Flemmer
Chapter 19 – Indigenous-led spaces in environmental governance: Implications for self-determined development
Almut Schilling-Vacaflor and Maria-Therese Gustafsson
Part III – Relations with the Earth
John-Andrew McNeish, Editor
Chapter 20 – The Role of Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Planetary Well-Being
Deborah McGregor, Danika Littlechild and Mahisha Sritharan
Chapter 21 – Building Kiaʻi Futures: Puʻuhonua o Puʻuhuluhulu and Protecting Mauna Kea
Cameron Grimm
Chapter 22 – Place attachment, sacred geography, and solidarity: Indigenous conceptions of development as meaningful life in Mongolia and Norway
Andrei Marin and Mikkel Nils Sara
Chapter 23 – Development and Territorial Control
Joe Bryan and Kiado Cruz
Chapter 24 – Indigenous Peoples: Extraction and Extractivism
John-Andrew McNeish
Chapter 25 – Rights of Nature: Law as a Tool for Indigenous-led Development
Craig Kaufmann
Chapter 26 – Indigenous Peoples and International Institutions: Indigenous Peoples’ Diplomacies at the United Nations
Tomohiro Harada
Chapter 27 – Science, Technology and Indigenous Development
Katharina Ruckstuhl and Dr. Maria Amoamo
Part IV – Engaging with Capitalism
Katharina Ruckstuhl, Editor
Chapter 28 – Colonial Potosí: Setting the stage for global capitalist development
Nancy Egan
Chapter 29 – Mapuche’s disagreements with development: a critical perspective from local spaces
Rosamel Millaman Reinao
Chapter 30 – Ngā Whai Take: Reframing Indigenous Development
Diane Ruwhiu, Maria Amoamo, Lynette Carter, Maria Bargh, Katharina Ruckstuhl, Anna Carr, and Shaun Awatere
Chapter 31 – Chickasaw Spring: Economic Development and Resurgent Sovereignty: An Interview with Shannon Speed
Shannon Speed
Chapter 32 – Ser Camaleón: Indigenous Community-Based Tourism for Emancipatory Futures
Matilde Córdoba Azcárate
Chapter 33 – Indigenous Development: The Role of Indigenous Values and Traditions for Restoring Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Mariaelena Huambachano
Chapter 34 – External Facilitators, Tourism, and Indigenous Development: Insights from Bangladesh
Md Ariful Hoque, Anna Carr, and Brent Lovelock
Part V – Migration and City Life
Nancy Postero, Editor
Chapter 35 – Indigenous Mobilities
M. Bianet Castellanos
Chapter 36 – From Runas to Universal Travelers: The Case of the Kichwa Nationality-Otavalo Pueblo. A Liberating Experience of Development
Luz María de la Torre
Chapter 37 – Imazighen of France: Developing Indigeneity in Diaspora
Jonathan Harris and Nacira Abrous
Chapter 38 – Communal Labor and Sharing Systems
De Ann Pendry
Chapter 39 – Miskitu Migrants Facing the Pandemic Together in Panama
Melesio Peter Espinoza
Chapter 40 – Fighting and Surviving in Oaxacalifornia
Odilia Romero
Chapter 41 – Lessons from Cahokia: Indigeneity and the Future of the Settler City
David T. Fortin
Chapter 42 – Designing Decolonization? Architecture and Indigenous Development
Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió
Chapter 43 – Urban Futurities: Identity, Place and Property Development by Indigenous Communities in the City
Alex Kitson, Janice Barry and Michelle Thompson-Fawcett
Part VI – Looking to the Future
Katharina Ruckstuhl, Editor
Chapter 44 – Literatures in Indigenous Languages and Education as Development
Gloria E. Chacón and Paulina Pineda
Chapter 45 – Giving Form to Indigenous Futures Through Monumental Architecture, Art, and Technology
Maurice Rafael Magaña and Xochitl M. Flores-Marcial
Chapter 46 – Fourth World Filmic Interventions
Reema Rajbanshi
Chapter 47 – Indigenous Online
Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar
Chapter 48 – Indigenous Youth in Intercultural Universities: New Sites of Knowledge Production and Leadership Training in Mexico and Latin America
Laura Selene Mateos Cortés and Gunther Dietz
Chapter 49 – Indigenous Data Futures: Empowering the Next One-Hundred Generations
Keolu Fox and Shubhra Murarka
Chapter 50 – Climate change and sustainable development in the Pacific: the case of Samoa
Anita Latai Niusulu
Part VII – Concluding Voices
Chapter 51 – The Power of Our Present Futures
India Logan-Riley
Chapter 52 – In Cañamomo Lomaprieta, We Grow Life
Hector Jaime Vinasco
Biography
Katharina Ruckstuhl is a Māori (Ngāi Tahu and Rangitāne) Associate Professor at the Otago Business School, University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj is a Maya-K’iche’ Guatemalan journalist, social anthropologist, and international spokeswoman who has been at the forefront in struggles for respect for Indigenous cultures.
John-Andrew McNeish is Professor of International Environment and Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) in Oslo, Norway.
Nancy Postero is a Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of California San Diego in the United States.
