Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies

Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies is the first comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of Indigenous scholarship. The book is ambitious in scope, ranging across disciplines and national boundaries, with particular reference to the lived conditions of Indigenous peoples in the first world. The contributors are all themselves Indigenous scholars who provide critical understandings of indigeneity in relation to ontology (ways of being), epistemology (ways of knowi

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies is the first comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of Indigenous scholarship. The book is ambitious in scope, ranging across disciplines and national boundaries, with particular reference to the lived conditions of Indigenous peoples in the first world. The contributors are all themselves Indigenous scholars who provide…

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List of contributors

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Acknowledgements

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Introduction

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Brendan Hokowhitu

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PART 1 Disciplinary knowledge and epistemology

1 The institutional and intellectual trajectories of Indigenous Studies in North America: Harnessing the ‘NAISA Effect’

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Chris Andersen

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2 Ricochet: It’s not where you land; it’s how far you fly

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Alice Te Punga Somerville

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3 Multi-generational Indigenous feminisms: From F word to what IFs

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Kim Anderson

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4 Against crisis epistemology

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Kyle Whyte

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5 Matariki and the decolonisation of time

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Rangi Matamua

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6 Indigenous women writers in unexpected places

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Lisa Kahaleole Hall

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7 Critical Indigenous methodology and the problems of history: Love and death beyond boundaries in Victorian British Columbia

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David A. Chang

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well-being

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Pat Dudgeon

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9 Colours of creation

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Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu


PART 2 Indigenous theory and method

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10 The emperor’s ‘new’ materialisms: Indigenous materialisms and disciplinary colonialism

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Brendan Hokowhitu

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11 Intimate encounters Aboriginal labour stories and the violence of the colonial archive

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Natalie Harkin

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12 M ā ku An ō e Hanga T ō ku Nei Whare: I myself shall build my house

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Leonie Pihama

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13 On the politics of Indigenous translation: Listening to Indigenous peoples in and on their own terms

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Dale Turner

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14 Auntie’s bundle: Conversation and research methodologies with Knowledge Gifter Sherry Copenace

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Sherry Copenace, Jaime Cidro, Anna Johnson, and Kim Anderson

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15 When nothingness revokes certainty: A Māori speculation

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Carl Mika

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16 Vital earth/vibrant earthworks/living earthworks vocabularies

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Chadwick Allen

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17 “To be a good relative means being a good relative to everyone”: Indigenous feminisms is for everyone

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Jennifer Denetdale

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18 ‘Objectivity’ and repatriation: Pulling on the colonisers’ tale

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Clayton Dumont


PART 3 Sovereignty

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19 Incommensurable sovereignties: Indigenous ontology matters

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Aileen Moreton-Robinson

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20 Mana Māori motuhake: Māori concepts and practices of sovereignty

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Margaret Mutu

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21 He Aliʻi Ka ʻĀina, Ua Mau Kona Ea: Land is the chief, long may she reign

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Kamanamaikalani Beamer

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22 Relational accountability in Indigenous governance: Navigating the doctrine of distrust in the Osage Nation

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Jean Dennison

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23 Ellos Deatnu and post-state Indigenous feminist sovereignty

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Rauna Kuokkanen

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24 Striking back: The 1980s Aboriginal art movement and the performativity of sovereignty

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Crystal McKinnon

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25 Communality as everyday Indigenous sovereignty in Oaxaca, Mexico

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Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez

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26 American Indian sovereignty versus the United States

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Robert J. Miller

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PART 4 Political economies, ecologies, and technologies

27 A story about the time we had a global pandemic and how it affected my life and work as a critical Indigenous scholar

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Linda Tuhiwai Smith

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28 Once were Maoists: Third World currents in Fourth World anticolonialism, Vancouver, 1967–1975

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Glen Sean Coulthard

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29 Resurgent kinships: Indigenous relations of well-being vs. humanitarian health economies

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Dian Million (Tanana)

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30 Indigenous environmental justice: Towards an ethical and sustainable future

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Deborah McGregor

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31 Diverse Indigenous environmental identities: Māori resource management innovations

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Maria Bargh

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32 The ski or the wheel?: Foregrounding Sámi technological Innovation in the Arctic region and challenging its invisibility in the history of humanity

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May-Britt Öhman

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33 The Indigenous digital footprint

H ē mi Whaanga and Paora Mato

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PART 5 Bodies, performance, and praxis

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34 Identity is a poor substitute for relating: Genetic ancestry, critical polyamory, property, and relations

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Kim TallBear

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35 Indigeneity and performance

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Stephanie Nohelani Teves

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36 Indigenous insistence on film

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Jo Smith

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37 The politics of language in Indigenous cinema

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Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.

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38 Entangled histories and transformative futures: Indigenous sport in the 21st century

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Fa’anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa

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39 Raranga as healing methodology: Body, place, and making

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Tāwhanga Nopera

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40 Becoming knowledgeable: Indigenous embodied praxis

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Simone Ulalka Tur

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41 Nyuragil – playing the ‘game’

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John Maynard

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42 Academic and STEM success: Pathways to Indigenous sovereignty

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Michelle M. Hogue

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43 Aboriginal child as knowledge producer: Bringing into dialogue Indigenist epistemologies and culturally responsive pedagogies for schooling

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Lester-Irabinna Rigney

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Biography

Brendan Hokowhitu is Ngāti Pukenga, Dean and Professor, Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Aileen Moreton-Robinson is a Goenpul woman of Quandamooka (Moreton Bay, Australia) and a Distinguished Professor of Indigenous Research, Office of Indigenous Education and Engagement Policy, Strategy and Impact, RMIT University.

Linda Tuhiwai-Smith is Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou, Tuhourangi, and Professor of Māori and Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Chris Andersen is Métis and Dean of the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, Canada.

Steve Larkin is Chief Executive Officer at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, Australia.

“Featuring important contributions by leading scholars in the field, this volume is an indispensable intervention into the field of Critical Indigenous Studies and a must-read for understanding its empirical, theoretical, and methodological scaffolding.”Jeani O’Brien, University of Minnesota, USA

“With a stellar editorial team, this extraordinary collection offers a much-needed state-of-the-field: Critical Indigenous Studies at its best, in a global frame. With thematic sections that showcase rich intellectual diversity, these outstanding essays are all well researched, conceptually innovative, and brilliantly theorized - yet, also accessible. This volume is essential reading!” – J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Professor of American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University, USA

“This handbook, edited by international leading scholars in the field, will be an essential resource for the academy and for Indigenous communities. It’s a unique and powerful collection of the most influential Indigenous scholars, and will be a must-have for students, researchers and scholars.” – Larissa Behrendt, Director of Research and Academic Programs, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

“This book is very much welcomed. Given that Indigenous scholars are researching, developing curriculum, and trying to engage in meaningful and respectful partnerships with Indigenous communities in Australia, the USA, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere, a collection such as this has never been more important or timely. The Handbook is edited by esteemed Indigenous scholars, and contains works by leading and emerging critical Indigenous scholars and thought leaders. The handbook will be a source of reference, theory, explanation, challenge, and inspiration, and I am excited by the prospect of its influence in the hands of my colleagues and students.” – Bronwyn Fredericks, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement), The University of Queensland, Australia

“A crucial reference work for the international, interdisciplinary field of Indigenous scholars within and outside the academy, the Handbook is more than a catalogue of critical thought and practice up to the present moment – it offers deeply thoughtful glimpses into dynamic Indigenous futures.” – K. Tsianina Lomawaima (Creek), Arizona State University, USA

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