Indigenous Peoples Books

New and Published Books

1. Narrowing the Achievement Gap for Native American Students

   Paying the Educational Debt

   Edited by Peggy McCardle, Virginia Berninger

   Series: Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics

   There has been much talk and effort focused on the educational achievement gap between white versus black, Hispanic and American Indian students. While there has been some movement the gap has not appreciably narrowed, and it has narrowed the least for Native American students. This volume...

   Published September 8th 2014 by Routledge
2. Place in Research

   Theory, Methodology, and Methods

   By Eve Tuck, Marcia McKenzie

   Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods

   Bridging environmental and Indigenous studies and drawing on critical geography, spatial theory, new materialist theory, and decolonizing theory, this dynamic volume examines the sometimes overlooked significance of place in social science research. There are often important divergences and even...

   Published September 2nd 2014 by Routledge
3. Indigenous Peoples, Customary Law and Human Rights – Why Living Law Matters

   By Brendan Tobin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Law and Sustainable Development

   This highly original work demonstrates the fundamental role of customary law for the realization of Indigenous peoples’ human rights and for sound national and international legal governance. The book reviews the legal status of customary law and its relationship with positive and natural law from...

   Published August 25th 2014 by Routledge
4. Self-Determination and Secession in Africa

   The Post-Colonial State

   Edited by Redie Bereketeab

   Series: Routledge Studies in African Development

   This book provides a unique comparative study of the major secessionist and self-determination movements in post-colonial Africa, examining theory, international law, charters of the United Nations, and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)/African Union’s (AU) stance on the issue. The book...

   Published August 7th 2014 by Routledge
5. Between Indigenous and Settler Governance

   Edited by Lisa Ford, Tim Rowse

   Between Indigenous and Settler Governance addresses the history, current development and future of Indigenous self-governance in four settler-colonial nations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Bringing together emerging scholars and leaders in the field of indigenous law and...

   Published July 16th 2014 by Routledge
6. An Introduction to the History of Religion (Routledge Revivals)

   By F. B. Jevons

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1902, this book investigates the history and development of early religion from an anthropological perspective. Rather than dealing with religions that grew from the teachings of their original founders, such as Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, Jevons considers those religions...

   Published July 16th 2014 by Routledge
7. Leading and Managing Indigenous Education in the Postcolonial World

   By Zane Ma Rhea

   Series: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education

   This book brings together the academic fields of educational leadership, educational administration, strategic change management, and Indigenous education in order to provide a critical, multi-perspective, systems level analysis of the provision of education services to Indigenous people. It draws...

   Published July 14th 2014 by Routledge
8. Anthropologists, Indigenous Scholars and the Research Endeavour

   Seeking Bridges Towards Mutual Respect

   Edited by Joy Hendry, Laara Fitznor

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   This collection offers the fruits of a stimulating workshop that sought to bridge the fraught relationship which sometimes continues between anthropologists and indigenous/native/aboriginal scholars, despite areas of overlapping interest. Participants from around the world share...

   Published July 2nd 2014 by Routledge
9. Indigenous Networks

   Mobility, Connections and Exchange

   Edited by Jane Carey, Jane Lydon

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   This edited collection argues for the importance of recovering Indigenous participation within global networks of imperial power and wider histories of "transnational" connections. It takes up a crucial challenge for new imperial and transnational histories: to explore the historical role of...

   Published June 30th 2014 by Routledge
10. Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies

    Edited by Engin F. Isin, Peter Nyers

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    Citizenship studies is at a crucial moment of globalizing as a field. What used to be mainly a European, North American, and Australian field has now expanded to major contributions featuring scholarship from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The Routledge Handbook of Global...

    Published June 23rd 2014 by Routledge