Decolonizing Western-Indigenous Dialogues
Interwoven Epistemologies for Multiple Modernities
Decolonizing Western-Indigenous Dialogues
Interwoven Epistemologies for Multiple Modernities
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Description
This groundbreaking book offers a unique collection of Indigenous and non-Indigenous approaches to decolonizing international development.
The world is facing enormous challenges, from ever-growing global inequality to climate change to the continuing fallout from the Covid pandemic. It is becoming increasingly clear that the origin of these challenges lies in the economic models and imperial lifestyles perpetuated by the Global North. In order to find new answers to the world's biggest challenges, then, it is necessary for the Global North to acknowledge Indigenous knowledge systems as unique and legitimate epistemologies and to engage in dialogues with them.
This collection brings together contributions from Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors to promote that dialogue. It provides a unique, rare forum for discourse between the expressive potentials of differing world views, and ultimately, for developing cooperation in the terms of Eisenstein's notion of interbeing, which counteracts the “History of Separation” between nature and culture and between Global South and Global North. What emerges is a path forward towards a new, interwoven modernity characterized by an embrace of separate, but mutually constitutive, ways of knowing.
For its wide topical and geographic breadth, and for its bringing together of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars around the world, this book is a must-read for researchers and students interested in indigenous studies and decolonial approaches to international development.
Table of Contents
i. Dialogues
2. Native Science, Gregory Cajete
3. Building bridges between Indigenous Science Scholars across Disciplinary Bounds, Andrea Reid, Danielle Ignace, Tabitha Martens, Shandin Pete
4. Dialogues: Limitations and Borders, Peter Strack
5. Embodied Knowledge: Decolonizing Philosophy by Turning to the Nature that we Are, Barbara Schellhammer, Stan Wilson
6. Indigenous Systems of Knowledge as an Answer to Conflict & Violence in Past, Present and Future, Mirjam Müller-Rensch
II. Challenges
7. The Ethic of Restoration: The Role of 'Peach People' in the Process of Decolonization, Ksenija Napan
8. Peeling back 50 Years of Genocide in Aotearoa: A Personal Journey, Paora Crawford Moyle
9. Mobilities in the Global South and New Circuits of Affects, Maria do Carmo Dos Santos Goncalvez
10. Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Unprecedented Global Calamities: Insights from African Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Ndangwa Noyoo
11. Global North Development Theories and Indigenous Developmental Approaches: The Case of Umunthu Approach in Malawi, Chance Chagunda
12. Ubuntu, Kefilwe Dithlake
13. Kitheka Ki Matu: A Forest Has Ears, Mark Lawrence
14. Indigenous in Europe: The Challenge in Bringing Back Livonian, Valts Ernštreits, Gunta Klava
III. Perspectives
15. Transatlantic Indigeneity: Fictionalized Indigenous Literary Presence Abroad, Renae Watchman
16. Muslim Women in Brazil: Life Histories, Women's World History, Samira Abel Osman
17. “Not about us, but with us!”: Perspectives of Insurgent Research with Children of the Global South, Manfred Liebel
18. Conclusion, Karsten Kiewitt, Ronald Lutz, Gregory Cajete, Maria do Carmo dos Santos Gonçalves and Ditlhake Kefilwe Johanna
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Sep 04 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781350425200 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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