Sheryl Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou (eds.), Indigeneous People and Borders – Duke University Press, January 2024

The legacies of borders are far-reaching for Indigenous Peoples. This collection offers new ways of understanding borders by departing from statist approaches to territoriality. Bringing together the fields of border studies, human rights, international relations, and Indigenous studies, it features a wide range of voices from across academia, public policy, and civil society. The contributors explore the profound and varying impacts of borders on Indigenous Peoples around the world and the ways borders are challenged and worked around. From Bangladesh’s colonially imposed militarized borders to resource extraction in the Russian Arctic and along the Colombia-Ecuador border to the transportation of toxic pesticides from the United States to Mexico, the chapters examine sovereignty, power, and obstructions to Indigenous rights and self-determination as well as globalization and the economic impacts of borders. Indigenous Peoples and Borders proposes future action that is informed by Indigenous Peoples’ voices, needs, and advocacy.

Contributor(s): Andrea Carmen, Hana Shams Ahmed, Tone Bleie, Jacqueline Gillis, Rauna Kuokkanen, Elifuraha Laltaika, David B. MacDonald, Toa Maldonado, Bina Nepram, Melissa Zeba Patel, Manoel Prado, Liubov Sulyandziga, Rodion Sulyandziga, Yifat Susskind, Erika Yamada

The Introduction is available open access.