Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I rethinking borders, sovereignty, and power in indigenous spaces
6. Chapter one.Reconciling Witchcraft and Hoṛ Cosmopolitanism: Boundary Restorative Violence and the Spatial Temporality of Ancestral Transboundary Practices 41
7. Chapter two. Rethinking Neoliberal Internet Communication Technology Governance for Indigenous Peoples: Lessons from Kurdish Subaltern “Counterpublic Spheres” 73
8. Chapter three. Friendships and Broken Friendships: Reframing Borders, Anglo Settler States, and Indigenous Peoples 101
9. Part II Borders as obstructions to indigenous peoples’ rights
10. Chapter four. South Asia’s Fractured Frontier: Armed Conflict and Trafficking of Narcotics and Small Arms in the Indigenous Border Territories of Manipur and Northeast India 125
11. Chapter five. Russia’s Arctic Dream and Indigenous Disempowerment: Change and Continuity 143
12. Chapter six. The Biopolitics of Government Directives and the Jumma Indigenous Peoples along the Borders of Bangladesh 167
13. Chapter seven. COVID-19, States of Exception, and Indigenous Self-Determination 184
14. Part III Globalization and economic integration’s impacts on cross-border indigenous peoples
15. Chapter eight. Environmental Violence, Cross-Border Traffic in Banned Pesticides, and Impacts on the Indigenous Peoples of Rio Yaqui, Sonora, Mexico 205
16. Chapter nine. Colonial Environmental Interventions: Foregrounding Indigenous Sovereignty within Global Geoengineering Governance 227
17. Chapter ten. Disconnected Clans in Fragmented Rangelands: Aligning the East African Community Integration Process with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 256
18. Part IV. Indigenous peoples exercising self-determination across borders
19. Chapter eleven. No Borders on Gender Justice and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: The Power of Transnational Solidarity and Exchange 275
20. Chapter twelve. The A´i Cofán Nationality of Ecuador: Between Invasion, the Border, and Resistance 295
21. Chapter fourteen. Haudenosaunee Passports and Decolonizing Borders 332
22. Contributors 351
23. Index 359