Politics of Indigeneity

Sita Venkateswar is Director, International in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Senior Lecturer in the Social Anthropology programme at Massey University. Her ethnography Development and Ethnocide: Colonial Practices in the Andaman Islands is based on her PhD fieldwork in the Andaman Islands from 1989-1992. She has since been involved in research on child labour in Nepal and poverty and grassroots democracy in Kolkata, India. She is currently involved in exploring indigenous politics related to climate change as well as questions of displacement and belonging in relation to refugee resettlement in New Zealand and Europe.Emma Hughes spent several years living in Egypt and working with women's rights groups in Egypt and East Africa where she was involved with development and advocacy projects addressing women’s rights issues. In New Zealand she worked firstly for the Centre for Indigenous Governance and Development at Massey University, and currently as a research adviser. As a visiting research scholar at the American University in Cairo in 2008 she returned to Egypt to document the Nubian case.

• Author biographiesIntroduction - Sita Venkateswar, Emma Hughes, Chris Kidd, Justin Kenrick, Benno Glauser, Hine Waitere, Katherine McKinnon, Simron Jit SinghInvocation: What the spirit said to Ibegua Chiqueñoro - translated by Benno GlauserSection One: SettlerSouth America1. Being indigenous. An inquiry into the concept of indigeneity, surging from a conversation with two Ayoreo leaders - Benno GlauserNew Zealand2. Beyond indigenous civilities: indigenous matters - Hine Waitere and Elizabeth AllenSection Two: PostcolonialAfrica3. Mapping Everyday Practices as Rights of Resistance: Indigenous peoples in Central Africa - Christopher Kidd and Justin Kenrick4. Displacement and indigenous rights: the Nubian Case - Emma HughesAsia5. Being indigenous in northern Thailand - Katharine McKinnon6. Chupon's dilemma. A dialogue - Simron Jit SinghSection Three: The International Arena7. Indigeneity and International Indigenous Rights Organisations and Fora - Sita VenkateswarConclusion: Naming and Claiming Second-Wave Indigeneity: a dialogue and reflections - Sita Venkateswar, Hine Waitere, Chris Kidd, Avril Bell, Benno Glauser, Katherine Mackinnon, Emma Hughes, Simron Jit Singh

What is indigeneity? How should it be articulated? How does one make it matter? 'The Politics of Indigeneity' is a bold and a challenging book. Multi layered and thought provoking it constantly forces the reader to re-engage and recalibrate, re-think and re-articulate assumptions and notions about many things including, importantly, indigeneity itself