Responding to Challenges and Threats to Indigenous Communities

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

As political and economic pressures grow on Indigenous populations around the world, the response of native populations has included legal challenges and transnational cooperation as well as domestic and international advocacy. Using examples from North America, Asia, and Latin America, this panel explores the challenges that Indigenous groups face in seeking and exercising representation and recognition in domestic and international policy settings.

Sub Unit

• Related Groups / Indigenous Studies Network

Individual Presentations

• Indigenous Injustices: Responding to Environmental Violence in Southeast Asia - Kim D. Reimann, Georgia State University

• Investigating The Influence of Indigenous Peoples in Arctic Governance - Andrew Chater, Brescia University College

• Towards an Indigenous Institutionalism: The Case of Greenlandic Representation - Mette Marie Staehr Harder, Stockholm University

Chair

• Laura E. Evans University of Washington

Discussants

• Burke Hendrix University of Oregon

• Kristin McKie Saint Lawrence University