In this paper I issue a call for a primary focus on expanding and strengthening alternative, community-based justice system, as a strategy for securing the full benefits of legal agency to indigenous and other culturally distinct groups. I do so because what lies within the formal justice system...

"Costly Fix addresses core questions about the Alberta oil sands boom that started in the 1990s: Why did this flood of investment pour into the oil sands of northern Alberta? What role has government played with respect to the oil sands rush, and why? Who benefited and who or what has paid the...

Foreword : moving beyond alternatives to recognizing multiplicity and complexity in food justice movements / Melissa L. Caldwell -- Introduction : sovereign food spaces? : openings and closures / Marisa Wilson -- Rethinking "alternative" : Maori and food sovereignty in Aotearoa New Zealand /...

"Food insecurity takes a disproportionate toll on the health of Canada's Indigenous people. "A Land Not Forgotten" examines the disruptions in local food practices as a result of colonization and the cultural, educational, and health consequences of those disruptions. This multidisciplinary work...

Indigenous peoples have three features in common: their historical heritage, their current culture and their extreme poverty. This paper presents a hypothesis about the development of a cultural factor: indigenous people prefer to work on a small scale. This cultural factor developed during the...

"Northern British Columbia has always played an important role in Canada's economy, but for many Canadians it also existed as an almost forgotten place: a vast territory where only a few roads and a ferry system connected small cities, towns, and villages to the outside world. Now, as the...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction : the challenge of indigenous coexistence for planning -- Concepts and contexts -- "We are all here to stay" : a "meditation on discomfort" -- Seeing the contact zone : a methodology for analyzing links between everyday and textual practice -- Constructing contact...

Land reform : theory, terminology and concepts -- Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory -- Communities on Aboriginal land -- Australian debate about land reform and the new political consensus -- The reforms -- Making sense of the reforms -- Alternative approaches?

Prior consultation is an increasingly accepted instrument internationally for guaranteeing the rights of indigenous peoples. Conceived of theoretically as a means for conflict resolution, in practice it lies at the heart of social conflicts all over Latin America. Using concepts from the...

By analysing the institutional structures of indigenous sub-Saharan African groups, this paper aims to highlight the effect that these institutions may have had, and continue to have, on contemporary institutional performance. Using ethnographic and anthropological data sources a set of...