Softcover, 632 pp

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies is the first comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of Indigenous scholarship. The book is ambitious in scope, ranging across disciplines and national boundaries, with particular reference to the lived conditions of Indigenous peoples in the first world.

The contributors are all themselves Indigenous scholars who provide critical understandings of indigeneity in relation to ontology (ways of being), epistemology (ways of knowing), and axiology (ways of doing) with a view to providing insights into how Indigenous peoples and communities engage and examine the worlds in which they are immersed. Sections include:

• Indigenous Sovereignty

• Indigeneity in the 21st Century

• Indigenous Epistemologies

• The Field of Indigenous Studies

• Global Indigeneity

This handbook contributes to the re-centring of Indigenous knowledges, providing material and ideational analyses of social, political, and cultural institutions and critiquing and considering how Indigenous peoples situate themselves within, outside, and in relation to dominant discourses, dominant postcolonial cultures and prevailing Western thought.

This book will be of interest to scholars with an interest in Indigenous peoples across Literature, History, Sociology, Critical Geographies, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Native Studies, Māori Studies, Hawaiian Studies, Native American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Race Studies, Queer Studies, Politics, Law, and Feminism.

Edited by: 

Brendan Hokowhitu is Ngāti Pukenga, Dean and Professor, Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Aileen Moreton-Robinson is a Goenpul woman of Quandamooka (Moreton Bay, Australia) and a Distinguished Professor of Indigenous Research, Office of Indigenous Education and Engagement Policy, Strategy and Impact, RMIT University.

Linda Tuhiwai-Smith is Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou, Tuhourangi, and Professor of Māori and Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Chris Andersen is Métis and Dean of the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, Canada.

Steve Larkin is Chief Executive Officer at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, Australia.