Routledge handbook of critical indigenous studies

730 Pages·2021·8.211 MB·English

by  Brendan Hokowhitu (editor)

“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
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
knowing), and axiology (ways of doing) with a view to providing insights into how
Indigenous peoples and communities engage and examine the worlds in which they are
immersed. Sections include:
Indigenous Sovereignty
Indigeneity in the 21st Century
Indigenous Epistemologies
The Field of Indigenous Studies
Global Indigeneity
This handbook contributes to the re-centring of Indigenous knowledges, providing material
and ideational analyses of social, political, and cultural institutions and critiquing and
considering how Indigenous peoples situate themselves within, outside, and in relation to
dominant discourses, dominant postcolonial cultures and prevailing Western thought.
This book will be of interest to scholars with an interest in indigenous peoples across
Literature, History, Sociology, Critical Geographies, Philosophy, Cultural Studies,
Postcolonial Studies, Native Studies, Māori Studies, Hawaiian Studies, Native American
Studies, Indigenous Studies, Race Studies, Queer Studies, Politics, Law, and Feminism.
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.
Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous
Studies
Edited by Brendan Hokowhitu, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Linda
Tuhiwai-Smith, Chris Andersen and Steve Larkin
First published 2021
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Title: Routledge handbook of critical indigenous studies/Brendan Hokowhitu, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Linda Tuhiwai-
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Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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CONTENTS
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Brendan Hokowhitu
PART 1
Disciplinary knowledge and epistemology
1 The institutional and intellectual trajectories of Indigenous Studies in North America:
Harnessing the ‘NAISA Effect’
Chris Andersen
2 Ricochet: It’s not where you land; it’s how far you fly
Alice Te Punga Somerville
3 Multi-generational Indigenous feminisms: From F word to what IFs
Kim Anderson
4 Against crisis epistemology
Kyle Whyte
5 Matariki and the decolonisation of time
Rangi Matamua
6 Indigenous women writers in unexpected places
Lisa Kahaleole Hall
7 Critical Indigenous methodology and the problems of history: Love and death beyond
boundaries in Victorian British Columbia
David A. Chang
8 Decolonising psychology: Self-determination and social and emotional well-being
Pat Dudgeon
9 Colours of creation
Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu
PART 2
Indigenous theory and method
10 The emperor’s ‘new’ materialisms: Indigenous materialisms and disciplinary colonialism
Brendan Hokowhitu
11 Intimate encounters Aboriginal labour stories and the violence of the colonial archive
Natalie Harkin
12 Māku Anō e Hanga Tōku Nei Whare: I myself shall build my house
Leonie Pihama
13 On the politics of Indigenous translation: Listening to Indigenous peoples in and on their
own terms
Dale Turner
14 Auntie’s bundle: Conversation and research methodologies with Knowledge Gifter Sherry
Copenace
Sherry Copenace, Jaime Cidro, Anna Johnson, and Kim Anderson
15 When nothingness revokes certainty: A Māori speculation
Carl Mika
16 Vital earth/vibrant earthworks/living earthworks vocabularies
Chadwick Allen
17 “To be a good relative means being a good relative to everyone”: Indigenous feminisms is
for everyone
Jennifer Denetdale
18 ‘Objectivity’ and repatriation: Pulling on the colonisers’ tale
Clayton Dumont
PART 3
Sovereignty
19 Incommensurable sovereignties: Indigenous ontology matters
Aileen Moreton-Robinson
20 Mana Māori motuhake: Māori concepts and practices of sovereignty
Margaret Mutu
21 He Aliʻi Ka ʻĀina, Ua Mau Kona Ea: Land is the chief, long may she reign
Kamanamaikalani Beamer
22 Relational accountability in Indigenous governance: Navigating the doctrine of distrust in
the Osage Nation
Jean Dennison
23 Ellos Deatnu and post-state Indigenous feminist sovereignty
Rauna Kuokkanen
24 Striking back: The 1980s Aboriginal art movement and the performativity of sovereignty
Crystal McKinnon
25 Communality as everyday Indigenous sovereignty in Oaxaca, Mexico
Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez
26 American Indian sovereignty versus the United States
Robert J. Miller
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
Linda Tuhiwai Smith
28 Once were Maoists: Third World currents in Fourth World anti-colonialism, Vancouver,
1967–1975
Glen Sean Coulthard
29 Resurgent kinships: Indigenous relations of well-being vs. humanitarian health economies
Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan)
30 Indigenous environmental justice: Towards an ethical and sustainable future
Deborah McGregor
31 Diverse Indigenous environmental identities: Māori resource management innovations
Maria Bargh
32 The ski or the wheel?: Foregrounding Sámi technological Innovation in the Arctic region
and challenging its invisibility in the history of humanity
May-Britt Öhman
33 The Indigenous digital footprint
Hēmi Whaanga and Paora Mato
PART 5
Bodies, performance, and praxis
34 Identity is a poor substitute for relating: Genetic ancestry, critical polyamory, property,
and relations
Kim TallBear
35 Indigeneity and performance
Stephanie Nohelani Teves
36 Indigenous insistence on film
Jo Smith
37 The politics of language in Indigenous cinema
Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.
38 Entangled histories and transformative futures: Indigenous sport in the 21st century
Fa’anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa
39 Raranga as healing methodology: Body, place, and making
Tāwhanga Nopera
40 Becoming knowledgeable: Indigenous embodied praxis
Simone Ulalka Tur
41 Nyuragil – playing the ‘game’
John Maynard
42 Academic and STEM success: Pathways to Indigenous sovereignty
Michelle M. Hogue
43 Aboriginal child as knowledge producer: Bringing into dialogue Indigenist epistemologies