The Indigenous Stewardship of Environment and Alternative Development (INSTEAD) research program is a knowledge co-creation partnership of Indigenous communities, representative organizations, university researchers, and activist civil society organizations. The collective aims to tackle conceptual and practical challenges faced by Indigenous peoples and communities in the stewardship of their environmental and cultural heritage in diverse regions of the Americas.
This book presents several of INSTEAD's founding Indigenous and academic partners to profile their diverse agendas and struggles. The intention is to bring together experience on diverse Indigenous territories, nurturing a sustained alliance of partners and researchers committed to the co-production of comparative knowledge, strategy formation, and policy action. Drawing on local knowledge experts and community leaders in collaboration with researchers dedicated to each partner territory, the book delves into the circumstances of each locale, critically comparing institutional and political contexts and assessing the creative strategies at play.
Emphasis is placed on the co-creation of knowledge toward the goals and engagements of INSTEAD's Indigenous partners, influenced by a legacy of thinking about Indigenous methodologies and research partnerships. Throughout, the book focuses on the challenges of protecting the integrity and diversity of socioecological communities within alternative models of development.
Edited by:
Colin Scott,
Evodia Silva-Rivera,
Katherine Sinclair
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781487542689
ISBN 10: 1487542682
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 02 January 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Indigenous Stewardship of Environment and Alternative Development 2. Free to Decide Their Own Destiny: The Ngäbé and the Buglé of the Isthmus of Panama and Their Struggle for Self-Determination 3. Recovering Yrmo: The Yshir Nation’s Life Project 4. Responding to Environmental Decline in Eastern James Bay: Indigenous Knowledge and Transdisciplinary Research 5. Intangible Heritage, Forest Conservation, and Identity: A Complex Challenge for Totonac Livelihood Continuity 6. Between Development and Buen Vivir (“Living Well”): The Struggles of the Mapuche in Defence of Their Environmental and Cultural Heritage 7. “La Gente Fantasma”: Relational Sustainability and Mining in Guatemala 8. Miyopimaatisowin, Living a Good Life in Bigstone Cree Nation Territory: Consultation in the Canadian Boreal Forest 9. Mapping the Aspirations and Challenges of the Hul'q'umi'num' Peoples 10. Forests, Governance, and the Struggle for Political Autonomy: Perspectives from the Cree First Nation of Waswanipi 11. “We Kicked Your Ass at CP146!”: Visions for Living and Protecting the Tsal'alhmec St'át'ímc Way of Life 12. Git lax m’oon: Indigenizing Research and Natural Resource Management on the Northwest Coast of Canada 13. Sumaq Kawsay and Biocultural Conservation: The Experience of the Potato Park (Cusco, Peru) 14. “How Are We Going to Keep People Informed?”: IsumaTV, Digital Indigenous Democracy, and Inuit Language Media Activism 15. Conclusion Index
Colin Scott is a professor of anthropology at McGill University. Evodia Silva-Rivera is a researcher at the University of Veracruz. Katherine Sinclair is an assistant professor of anthropology at MacEwan University.
