scholarly journals Ecological research should consider Indigenous peoples and stewardship

FACETS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 534-537
Author(s):  
Kyle A. Schang ◽  
Andrew J. Trant ◽  
Sara A. Bohnert ◽  
Alana M. Closs ◽  
Megan Humchitt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystems ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Indigenous Group ◽  
Indigenous Territories ◽  
America South ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between Indigenous peoples and the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems has received increased attention in recent years. As a result, it is becoming more critical for researchers focusing on terrestrial ecosystems to work with Indigenous groups to gain a better understanding of how past and current stewardship of these lands may influence results. As a case study to explore these ideas, we systematically reviewed articles from 2008 to 2018 where research was conducted in North America, South America, and Oceania. Of the 159 articles included, 11 included acknowledgement of Indigenous stewardship, acknowledged the Indigenous Territories or lands, or named the Indigenous group on whose Territory the research was conducted. Within the scope of this case study, our results demonstrate an overall lack of Indigenous acknowledgement or consideration within the scope of our review. Given the recent advancements in our understanding of how Indigenous groups have shaped their lands, we implore researchers to consider collaboration among local Indigenous groups as to better cultivate relationships and foster a greater understanding of their ecosystems.

19. Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Havemann
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Group Rights ◽  
Indigenous Group ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines issues surrounding the human rights of Indigenous peoples. The conceptual framework for this chapter is informed by three broad, interrelated, and interdependent types of human rights: the right to existence, the right to self-determination, and individual human rights. After describing who Indigenous peoples are according to international law, the chapter considers the centuries of ambivalence about the recognition of Indigenous peoples. It then discusses the United Nations's establishment of a regime for Indigenous group rights and presents a case study of the impact of climate change on Indigenous peoples. It concludes with a reflection on the possibility of accommodating Indigenous peoples' self-determination with state sovereignty.

scholarly journals Modelling change and cultural safety: A case study in northern British Columbia health system transformation

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margo Greenwood
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Cultural Safety ◽  
System Transformation ◽  
Health System Change ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Canadian Healthcare System ◽  
Canadian Healthcare

The relationship that Indigenous Peoples have to the Canadian healthcare system makes the system’s weaknesses and complexities obvious. The long-standing lack of consideration to the historical and contemporary realities of Indigenous Peoples has resulted in miscommunication, misunderstanding, mistrust and racism. Health leaders, including health authorities, across the province are thus challenged to ensure that culturally safe environments are available and culturally safe practices are being used. This article begins with an overview of contemporary social political contexts in which Indigenous individual and collective realities are situated. Following is a conceptual discussion focused on health system change and the experiences of Indigenous Peoples. Change at structural, systemic and individual levels is the focus of the change model presented in this article. Throughout this exploration, examples of concrete actions currently underway in a health authority are offered. The article concludes with visions for future change.

Archives of Native Presence: Land Tenure Research on the Grand Ronde Reservation

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Kretzler
Keyword(s):  
Historic Preservation ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Scholarly Practice ◽  
Tribal Nations

Under the banner of indigenous and collaborative archaeologies, heritage professionals and indigenous peoples have developed new forms of scholarly practice. This work has begun to rectify the discipline's historical marginalization of indigenous groups but remains skewed toward academic projects. Less attention has been paid to the hundreds of Tribal Historic Preservation Offices within tribal nations. This article argues that tribal historic preservation provides needed insight to heritage managers of all stripes. Using the Grand Ronde Land Tenure Project as a case study, I discuss how tribally-driven archival research fosters new accounts of Native history and enhances tribes' capacity to care for cultural resources.

A morphometric evaluation of the subspecies of Fragaria chiloensis

1998 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M Catling ◽  
Sue Porebski
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
South America ◽  
North American ◽  
The Other ◽  
South American ◽  
Taxonomic Rank ◽  
Fragaria Chiloensis ◽  
America South ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Morphometric Evaluation

To evaluate the relationship between the four subspecies of Fragaria chiloensis, 14 characters were measured in 95 plants. F ratios from ANOVA were used to determine and apply the optimal characters for subspecies separation. Discriminant analysis indicated that the Hawaiian ssp. sandwicensis was entirely distinct, differing from the other subspecies in having longer leaflets and longer hairs on the undersurface of the leaflets and more numerous leaflet veins. The South American and North American plants were significantly different but overlapped to a degree. The former differed primarily by having mostly 6-10 petals, instead of having 5-6 (rarely 7) petals. The two North American subspecies overlapped extensively and may be best transferred to a lower taxonomic rank. A key to the subspecies is included.Key words: Fragaria chiloensis, ssp. pacifica, ssp. lucida, ssp.sandwicensis, ssp. chiloensis, Rosaceae, strawberry, taxonomy, classification, morphology, North America, South America, Hawaii.

scholarly journals Religious Tastes and Styles as Markers of Class Belonging: A Bourdieuian Perspective on Pentecostalism in South America

Sociology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 1237-1253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Koehrsen
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
South America ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Emotional Expressiveness ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Life Improvement ◽  
The Relationship

Studies on the relationship between social class and religion tend to highlight the demographic dimension of class, but neglect its symbolic dimension. By addressing the symbolic dimensions through a Bourdieuian approach, this article contends that religious tastes and styles can be employed as class markers within the sphere of religion. A case study on Argentinean Pentecostalism and in-depth analysis of a lower and middle class church illustrate how symbolic class differences are cultivated in the form of distinctive religious styles. While the lower class church displays a style marked by emotional expressiveness and the search for life improvement through spiritual practices, the middle class church performs a sober and calm style of Pentecostalism. The study highlights the role of styles in the reproduction of class boundaries, while shedding a critical light on the importance of tastes.

scholarly journals Indigenizing International Law and Decolonizing the Anthropocene: Genocide by Ecological Means and Indigenous Nationhood in Contemporary Colombia

Maguaré ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-169
Author(s):  
Paulo Ilich Bacca
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
The Political ◽  
Legal Anthropology ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Indigenous Law ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Indigenous Territories

This article displays the idea of indigenizing international law by recognizing indigenous law as law. Transforming international law becomes possible by directing indigenous jurisprudences to it —I call this process inverse legal anthropology—. Based on inverse legal anthropology, i present a case study on the ongoing genocide of Colombian indigenous peoples in the age of the global ecology of the Anthropocene. I also explain the political consequences of valuing indigenous cosmologies regarding their territories. While mainstream representations of indigenous territories include the topographic and biologic dimensions of the earth’s surface, they forget the pluriverse of organic and inorganic beings that make and negotiate their social living together with indigenous peoples, and their ecological and spiritual relationships.

Group-Differentiated Rights and Informed Consent for Indigenous Group-Based Genetic Research

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo A. Rueda
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Genetic Research ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Indigenous Group ◽  
Constitutional Jurisprudence ◽  
Latin American Countries

AbstractIntroductionIndigenous Peoples’ struggle to be acknowledged as autonomous groups has found international legal support in the ILO Convention 169, which many Latin American countries have ratified. The way by which regional constitutional jurisprudence has reconstructed the foundations and scope of this right to self-determination seems, however, quite controversial. Firstly, taking Colombian constitutional jurisprudence as an example, I discuss both the acceptability of the restrictions the Constitutional Court has fixed to groups’ self-determination and the acceptability of defining them as collective subjects. Having in mind a better understanding of group-differentiated rights, I examine, secondly, how the conditions of the ILO Convention regarding the informed consent from indigenous groups should be satisfied when group-based genetic research is to be developed.

scholarly journals Cultural Preservation and Inclusion for the Ifugao People

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 421
Author(s):  
Ellisiah Uy Jocson
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Cultural Preservation ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
The People ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This study seeks to offer insight into the paradox between two ideologies that are currently being promoted in society and identify the relationship of both towards the indigenous community of the Ifugao in the Philippines. Inclusion is a growing trend in many areas such as education, business and development. However, there is ambiguity in terms of educating and promoting inclusion for indigenous groups, particularly in the Philippines. Mandates to promote cultural preservation also present limits to the ability of the indigenous people to partake in the cultures of mainstream society. The people of the Ifugao, together with other indigenous tribes in the Philippines, are at a state of disadvantage particularly due to the discrepancies between the rights that they receive relative to the more urbanized areas of the country. The divided vantages from the desire to preserve their culture and to become inclusive in delivering equal rights and services seems to present a rift and a dilemma on which ideology to promulgate. Apart from the imbalances, the stand of the Ifugao regarding this matter is unclear, particularly if they observe and follow a central principle. Given the notions of inclusion to accommodate everyone regardless of “race, gender, disability, ethnicity, social class, and religion, it is highly imperative to provide clarity to this issue, and identify what actions to take regarding them. The study aims to understand how they are perceived, implemented and integrated and shall look for manifestations in three areas of the Ifugao, namely the Lamut, Lagawe, and Banaue. The study uses a qualitative-case study design, obtaining data through a review of documents and policies, interviews and observations in order to identify the current status of both ideologies in terms of implementation, integration and acceptance for the Ifugao people in the Philippines.

scholarly journals Indigeneity and political economy: Class and ethnicity of the Guarani-Kaiowa

2020 ◽  
pp. 030981682095982
Author(s):  
Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Ethnic Differences ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Spatial Trajectory ◽  
Mato Grosso Do Sul

Ontological and identitary questions affecting indigenous peoples are discussed through an assessment of the socio-spatial trajectory of the Guarani-Kaiowa of South America, employing an analytical framework centred around land, labour and ethnicity. These enhanced politico-economic categories provide important entry points for understanding the violence and exploitation perpetrated against indigenous groups, as well as their capacity to reclaim ancestral territory lost to development. Evidence indicates that ethnicity is integral to class-based processes, given that the advance of capitalist relations both presumes and produces difference and subordination. The case study in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul demonstrates that the Guarani-Kaiowa became refugees in their own land due to ethnic differences, but at the same time their labour has underpinned the regional economy to a considerable extent through interrelated mechanisms of peasantification and proleterianisation. Trends of exploitation and alienation have intensified in recent decades due to racism and socio-spatial segregation, but the action/reaction of subordinate groups has also been reinforced through references to their ethnicity.

Workers in Hard Times

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
America South ◽  
Abrupt Shifts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Welfare State

Seeking to historicize today's “Great Recession,” this volume of essays uses examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to situate the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace. The book argues that factors such as race, sex, and state intervention have mediated both the effect of economic depressions on workers' lives and workers' responses to those depressions. Further, the direction of influence between politics and economic upheaval, as well as between workers and the welfare state, has often shifted with time, location, and circumstance. These principles inform a concluding examination of today's “Great Recession”: its historical distinctiveness, its connection to neoliberalism, and its attendant expressions of worker status and agency around the world. Ultimately, the chapters push us toward a rethinking of the relationship between capital and labor, the waged and unwaged, and the employed and jobless.

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