Land Rights Now

For more than two-decades, William Nikolakis has worked with Indigenous Peoples to secure their rights to lands and resources. William is a professor at the University of British Columbia, where he was instrumental in developing the Bachelor of Indigenous Land Stewardship. He has published more than sixty peer-reviewed publications and four edited books. William is also a practicing lawyer in British Columbia and works closely with First Nations to revitalize the stewardship of their lands.

• 1. 'Land back': indigenous peoples and land rights William Nikolakis; 2. The elusive promise of indigenous land rights in Paraguay: achievements, challenges and current trends Joel E. Correia, Rodrigo Villagra-Carron and Marcos Glauser; 3. Recognizing and reclaiming indigenous peoples' constitutional land rights in Brazil: challenges and opportunities Fernanda Frizzo Bragato and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum; 4. Indigenous peoples and territorial rights in Colombia: advances and challenges in the 'implementation gap' Omaira Bolaños Cárdenas and Ricardo Camilo Niño Izquierdo; 5. Indigenous land rights in Chile: dispossession, misrecognition and litigation Alexandra Tomaselli; 6. Aboriginal land rights in Australia: neither national nor uniform Francis Markham and Heidi Norman; 7. Dispossession by treaty, dispossession by statute: indigenous title in Eastern and Western Canada Daniel Diamond and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii); 8. Mâori land law in Aotearoa New Zealand: recognizing land as tâonga tuku iho Carwyn Jones and Sandra Cortés Acosta; 9. Land rights of indigenous peoples in the democratic Republic of Congo: 'first come, last served' Lassana Koné; 10. San land rights in Botswana: a critical analysis Robert K. Hitchcock, Maria Sapignoli and Smith Moeti; 11. Rights to land among amazigh peoples in Morocco: the case of the high atlas Ahmed Bendellaa & d, Ugo D'Ambrosioa, Emily Carusoa, Gary Martina, Soufiane M'Soua, Mari Carmen Romerab and Pablo Dominguez; 12. Adivasis and land rights in India: dispossession and the 'implementation gap' Jagannath Ambagudia; 13. Legal privileges and the effective recognition of indigenous land rights: lessons from Malaysia Yogeswaran Subramaniam; 14. Indigenous peoples and electoral politics in Thailand and Cambodia: one strategy to secure land rights in contested spaces Ian G. Baird; 15. Conclusion: reclaiming land rights under the pressure of Nation States – Insights and future directions from Sápmi Oula-Antti Labba; Index.