Indigenous Peoples' Knowledges and Rights Commission of the IGU



	IPKRC-Related Publiations

	Discourses and Silences: Indigenous Peoples, Risks and Resistance

	A practical greeting to the new IGU Commission: The formation of the IGU Commission on Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples' Rights, under the convenership of Professor Jay T. Johnson, is greeted with special delight by those who participated in the First Nations Working Group at the IRSA Congress held in Trondheim, Norway, in July 2004. The Trondheim working group brought together Indigenous participants and academics from Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. The IGU Commission, launched in Brisbane following a workshop on Stradbroke Island widens the constituency, establishes an ongoing structure, and puts this electronic network in position. Papers presented in Trondheim have been published in in a volume entitled Discourses and Silences: Indigenous Peoples, Risks and Resistance. Click here to see the table of contents and an order form and here to read a recent review. A selection of the papers presented in Brisbane are being edited for publication in a June 2007 special issue of Geographical Research.

		Click on the photo to view a detailed cover of Discourses and Silences.

	The Trondheim participants would like to mark the links between the two gatherings, and celebrate the formation of the IGU Commission and network, and widen the networking by making copies of Discourses and Silences available to network members at the special price of NZ$30 or US$20 (postage included). This is well inside the regular retail price of NZ$45 or US$35 (plus postage). You can order Discourses and Silences at the IGU network price by e-mailing Garth Cant at <garth.cant [at] canterbury.ac.nz> with your name, number of copies, postal address and identifying yourself as an IGU network member. We will post the books to you and arrange for an invoice. If you would like a copy for your library you can use the regular order form. Warm greetings to the Commission,and the network, from the Trondheim participants and from the editors Garth Cant, Justine Inns and Anake Goodall.

	Theme Issue of Geographical Research on Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Knowledges
	To access the journal through the Blackwell Publishing website, click here. CONTENTS Creating Anti-colonial Geographies: Embracing Indigenous Peoples' Knowledges and Rights JAY T. JOHNSON, GARTH CANT, RICHARD HOWITT and EVELYN PETERS Re/placing Native Science: Indigenous Voices in Contemporary Constructions of Nature JAY T. JOHNSON and BRIAN MURTON Can You Hear us Now? Voices from the Margin: Using Indigenous Methodologies in Geographic Research RENEE PUALANI LOUIS

	Maps Narratives and Trails: Performativity, Hodology and Distributed Knowledges in Complex Adaptive Systems - an Approach to Emergent Mapping DAVID TURNBULL An Interwoven Learning Exchange: Transforming Research-Teaching Relationships in the Top End, Northern Australia SARAH WRIGHT, SANDIE SUCHET-PEARSON and KATE LLOYD Ways of Belonging: Reconciliation and Adelaide's Public Space Indigenous Cultural Markers GAVIN MALONE Corporate Social Responsibility, Supply-chains and Saami Claims: Tracing the Political in the Finnish Forestry Industry REBECCA LAWRENCE An Indigenous Perspective on National Parks and Sámi Reindeer Management in Norway JAN ÅGE RISETH Postcolonial Conservation and Kiekie Harvests at Morere New Zealand - Abstracting Indigenous Knowledge from Indigenous Polities BRAD COOMBES (Re)asserting Indigenous Rights and Jurisdictions within a Politics of Place: Transformative Nature of Native Title Negotiations in South Australia PARRY AGIUS, TOM JENKIN, SANDY JARVIS, RICHIE HOWITT and RHIÂN WILLIAMS

	Recommended Reading

	*Indigenous Experience Today* Orin Starn and Marisol de la Cadena, editors London: Berg Publishers

	Book Description A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies everywhere would be swept away by the forward march of the West and its own peculiar brand of progress and civilization. Nothing could be further from the truth. Indigenous social movements wield new power, and groups as diverse as Australian Aborigines, Ecuadorian Quichuas, and New Zealand Maoris, have found their own distinctive and assertive ways of living in the present world. Indigenous Experience Today draws together essays by prominent scholars in anthropology and other fields examining the varied face of indigenous politics in Bolivia, Botswana, Canada, Chile, China, Indonesia, and the United States, amongst others. The study challenges the accepted notions of indigeneity and the often contentious issue of indigenous rights. Indigenous Experience Today demonstrates the transnational dynamics of contemporary indigenous culture and politics around the world.


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