Land, Indigenous People and Conflict
I am pleased to announce that my latest project, a collaboration with my friend and colleague Alan Tidwell at Georgetown University's Center for Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Studies (where I am a nonresident senior fellow), has been accepted for publication by Routledge Books, and came to press on October 12, 2015 -- 523 years after Columbus infamously made landfall in the Americas.
The work is called Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict, a comparative global look at the relationship between indigenous peoples and the state, and the diverse solutions to the many land conflicts between the first peoples for whom these lands are their traditional homeland, and the modern states that assert sovereignty over those lands.
We will present chapters from experts on the Americas, the Asia-Pacific region, Africa, and Europe, as well as our thoughts on both the similarities that bind far-flung regions together through a unified experience, and the differences that distinguish each region for its uniqueness. Its chapters include:
Visit the book's page on Routledge's website here.
...Stay tuned for more!
The work is called Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict, a comparative global look at the relationship between indigenous peoples and the state, and the diverse solutions to the many land conflicts between the first peoples for whom these lands are their traditional homeland, and the modern states that assert sovereignty over those lands.
We will present chapters from experts on the Americas, the Asia-Pacific region, Africa, and Europe, as well as our thoughts on both the similarities that bind far-flung regions together through a unified experience, and the differences that distinguish each region for its uniqueness. Its chapters include:
- Foreword (Spike Boydell)
- Introduction (Alan C. Tidwell and Barry Scott Zellen)
- 1. Indigeneity, Land and Activism in Siberia (Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer)
- 2. From Counter-Mapping to Co-Management: The Inuit, the State and the Quest for Collaborative Arctic Sovereignty (Barry Scott Zellen)
- 3. Re-Imagining Indigenous Space: The Law, Constitution and the Evolution of Aboriginal Property and Resource Rights in Canada (Ken Coates and Greg Poelzer)
- 4. President Lugo and the Indigenous Communities of Paraguay (Cheryl Duckworth)
- 5. Awkward Alliances: Is environmentalism a bonding agent between indigenous and rural settler politics in America and Australia? (Saleem H. Ali and Julia Keenan)
- 6. Satisfying Honour? The Role of the Waitangi Tribunal in Addressing Land-Related Treaty Grievances in New Zealand (Debra Wilson)
- 7. The ‘Pacific Way’: Customary Land Use, Indigenous Values and Globalization in the South Pacific (Spike Boydell)
- 8. Threats and Challenges to the "Floating Lives" of the Tonle Sap (Carl Grundy-Warr and Mak Sithirith)
- 9. Long Road to Justice: Addressing Indigenous Land Claims in Kenya (Darren Kew)
- 10. Indigenous Land Rights and Conflict in Darfur: The Case of the Fur Tribe (Jon Unruh)
- 11. Indigenous Rights, Grey Spacing and Roads: The Israeli Negev Bedouin and Planning in Road Thirty-One (Avinoam Meir, Batya Roded and Arnon Ben-Israel)
- Conclusion (Alan C. Tidwell and Barry Scott Zellen)
Visit the book's page on Routledge's website here.
...Stay tuned for more!
