explores the ways in which indigeneity becomes relevant with regard to knowledge, representation, and individually and collectively negotiated “ways of being.” With a focus on the politics of identity and belonging, it attempts to offer new frames through which one may understand the relationships of such politics with many contemporary nation-states, and seeks to provide a critical overview of current research on indigeneity. It also identifies the issues that must be addressed in future research and discussions, in order to investigate indigeneity and its role within changing political and economic environments with greater refinement. For this purpose, the contributors to this book reflect upon their research to engage critically in debates on indigeneity, and thus provide solid theoretical and empirical examinations into indigeneity in the globalized world. Much of this revolves around the observation that the recurrent indigenous activism occurring around the world could lend an honorable dignity to struggles to establish rights. This diverse collection attempts to help readers to acquire comprehensive knowledge about contemporary research that has shaped scholarship on indigeneity and indigenous mobility, and to show promising directions for future research.
Nasir Uddin (PhD, Kyoto) is a cultural anthropologist based in Bangladesh, and Professor of Anthropology at Chittagong University. He studied and carried out research at the University of Dhaka, the University of Chittagong, Kyoto University, the University of Hull, Delhi School of Economics, Ruhr-University Bochum, VU University Amsterdam, Heidelberg University, and the London School of Economics (LSE). His research interests include indigeneity and identity politics; dialectics between colonialism and postcolonialism; refugee, statelessness, and citizenship; notions of power and the state in everyday life; the Chittagong Hill Tracts; and South Asia. His latest book is Life in Peace and Conflict: Indigeneity and State in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (Orient BlackSwan, 2017).
Eva Gerharz (Dr.phil., Bielefeld) is Professor of Sociology with a special focus on globalization at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany.She previously held the position of Junior Professor for Sociology of Development and Internationalization at Ruhr-University Bochum, and Interim Professor of Development Sociology at Bayreuth University from 2017 to 2018. Until 2010, she was a researcher in the Department of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany, and also Associate Scientist at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu. With a major focus on South Asia (Bangladesh and Sri Lanka), her research deals with indigeneity, ethnicity and conflict, development and reconstruction, political activism, and transnationalism. Eva has published in several academic journals, including Mobilities, Conflict and Society, Asian Ethnicity, and Indigenous Policy Journal. As well as her monograph, The Politics of Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka (Routledge, 2014), she has co-edited Governance, Development and Conflict in South Asia (Sage, 2015, with Siri Hettige) and Land, Development and Security in South Asia (SAMAJ, 2016, with Katy Gardner).
Pradeep Chakkarath (Dr.phil., Konstanz) is a cultural psychologist at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, and (together with Jürgen Straub) co-director of the Hans Kilian and Lotte Köhler Centre (KKC) for Cultural Psychology and Historical Anthropology. He is a lecturer at universities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Editor in Chief of the German journal psychosozial, and a fellow alumnus of the Center of Excellence at the University of Konstanz, Germany. He was a visiting professor at the Université Evangélique du Cameroun. After having completed his Master’s degree in philosophy and history and his PhD in psychology, he conducted cross-cultural research on children’s development and parent–child relationships with an emphasis on Asian–European comparisons. Currently, his main interests are in human development from an interdisciplinary perspective, the history and methodology of the social sciences, and the indigenous psychology approach.
Notes
1. See http://www.refworld.org/docid/3b00f04e10.html (accessed 16 March 2017).
2. See http://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/none/un-tracks-progress-second-international-decade-world-s-indigenous-people (accessed 16 March 2017).
3. Beth Conklin and Laura Graham explain that continuous media reporting on global warming, declining biodiversity, and deforestation brought, for example, the plight of local Amazon Indians and their conflict over natural resources to the attention of a broader international audience (see Conklin and Graham 1995).
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