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  • Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond

    by Mario Blaser, Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to maintain their world in the face of conservation and development programs promoted by the state and various nongovernmental organizations. In this ethnography of the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based “life projects” of the Yshiro, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Territories of Life

    Equivocations, Entanglements, and Endurances

    Edited by Mario Blaser, Sylvie Poirier, Penelope Anthias ...
    Territories of Life highlights the multiplicity and heterogeneity of worlds and collectives, some labelled Indigenous, as they struggle to sustain their territories of life. “Territories of life” is the phrase used in this volume to speak about the shapes that these collectives or worlds adopt in the present as they endure the heavy shadow of modernization and coloniality. This label also ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy

    Insights for a Global Age

    Edited by Mario Blaser, Ravi De Costa, Deborah McGregor, William D. Coleman ...
    Series series Globalization and Autonomy
    When the UN adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, it brought the negative effect of globalization on the lives of Indigenous peoples to the centre of public debate. The contributors to this innovative collection extend the discussion by asking what can Indigenous peoples’ experiences with and thoughts on globalization tell us about the relationship between ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • A World of Many Worlds

    Edited by Marisol de la Cadena, Mario Blaser ...
    A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science's philosophical production. The contributors explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds. They work with difference and sameness, recursion, divergence, political ontology, cosmopolitics, and relations, using them as concepts, methods, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • In the Way of Development

    Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization

    Edited by Mario Blaser, Glenn McRae, Harvey Feit ...
    A collaboration between indigenous leaders, social activists and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, In the Way of Development explores the current situation of indigenous peoples enmeshed in the remorseless expansion of the modern economy.The volume assembles a rich diversity of statements, case studies and wider thematic explorations all starting with indigenous peoples as actors, not ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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  • Indigenous in the City

    Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation

    Edited by Evelyn Peters, Chris Andersen ...
    Research on Indigenous issues rarely focuses on life in major metropolitan centres. Instead, there is a tendency to frame rural locations as emblematic of authentic or "real" Indigeneity. While such a perspective may support Indigenous struggles for territory and recognition, it fails to account for large swaths of contemporary Indigenous realities, including the increased presence of Indigenous ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Forever Loved: Exposing the hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada

    by Lavell Memee.D Harvard ...
    The hidden crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada is both a national tragedy and a national shame. In this ground-breaking new volume, as part of their larger efforts to draw attention to the shockingly high rates of violence against our sisters, Jennifer Brant and D. Memee Lavell-Harvard have pulled together a variety of voices from the academic realms to the ... Read more

    $26.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Real England

    The Battle Against The Bland

    by Paul Kingsnorth ...
    We see the signs around us every day: the chain caf�s and mobile phone outlets that dominate our high streets; the disappearance of knobbly carrots from our supermarket shelves; and the headlines about yet another traditional industry going to the wall. For the first time, here is a book that makes the connection between these isolated, incremental local changes and the bigger picture of a nation ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Judgement at Stoney Creek

    by Bridget Moran ...
    Judgement at Stoney Creek has been released in a new edition of an aboriginal studies classic: an engrossing look at the investigation into the hit-and-run death of Coreen Thomas, a young Native woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, at the wheels of a car driven by a young white man in central BC. The resulting inquest into what might have been just another small-town tragedy turned into an ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cherokee Astrology

    Animal Medicine in the Stars

    by Raven Hail ...
    Explains the ancient astrological system sacred to the Cherokee and how to use it in the modern world• Provides easy-to-use format for determining what signs and numbers rule the day of your birth and what influence they have on your destiny• Includes a traditional Cherokee ephemeris through 2015An essential aspect of Cherokee religion is the belief that everything on Earth is the reflection of a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Islands of Destiny

    A History of Hawaii

    by Olive Wyndette ...
    This is the complete history of Hawaii.It is the fast-moving narrative of an island nation whose settlement antedates the arrival of European pioneers by a thousand years, and whose destiny it was to become the fiftieth star in the flag of the United States of America. It tells how the Islanders have created a modern-day miracle through education, economic progress, and financial growth in the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • NoNonsense International Development

    Illusions and Realities

    by Maggie Black ...
    "Development" is often misunderstood and can embrace everything from large infrastructure projects to small-scale environmental initiatives. The idea can often mask confusion, contradiction, deceit and corruption. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to know what development actually is. It covers all the key themes and critically suggests ways to bring the poor and marginalised into ... Read more

    $9.99 USD