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Indigenous sociology makes visible what is meaningful in the Indigenous social world. This core premise is demonstrated here via the use of the concept of the Indigenous Lifeworld in reference to the dispossessed Indigenous Peoples from Anglo-colonized first world nations. Indigenous lifeworld is built around dual intersubjectivities: within peoplehood, inclusive of traditional and ongoing culture, belief systems, practices, identity, and ways of understanding the world; and within colonized realties as marginalized peoples whose everyday life is framed through their historical and ongoing relationship with the colonizer nation state.
The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology is, in part, a response to the limited space allowed for Indigenous Peoples within the discipline of sociology.
The very small existing sociological literature locates the Indigenous within the non-Indigenous gaze and the Eurocentric structures of the discipline reflect a continuing reluctance to actively recognize Indigenous realities within the key social forces literature of class, gender, and race at the discipline's center.
But the ambition of this volume, its editors, and its contributors is larger than a challenge to this status quo. They do not speak back to sociology, but rather, claim their own sociological space. The starting point is to situate Indigenous sociology as sociology by Indigenous sociologists. The authors in The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology, all leading and emerging Indigenous scholars, provide an authoritative, state of the art survey of Indigenous sociological thinking. The contributions in this Handbook demonstrate that the Indigenous sociological voice is a not a version of the existing sub-fields but a new sociological paradigm that uses a distinctively Indigenous methodological approach.
Contents
Preface
C. Matthew Snipp
1. Introduction: Holding the Discipline of Sociology to Account
Maggie Walter, Tahu Kukutai, Robert Henry, and Angela A. Gonzales
2. Conceptualizing and Theorizing the Indigenous Lifeworld
Maggie Walter
3. All of Our Relations: Indigenous Sociology and Indigenous Lifeworlds
Tahu Kukutai
4. Beyond the "Abyssal Line": Knowledge, Power, and Justice in a Datafied World
Donna Cormack and Paula King
5. Social Systems and the Indigenous Lifeworld: Examining Gerald Vizenor's Notion of Survivance in Street Lifestyles
Robert Henry
Social Class and Indigenous Lifeworlds
6. Indigenizing the Sociology of Class
Maggie Walter
7. Indigenous Peoples' Earnings, Inequality and Wellbeing: Known and Unknown Components
Randall Akee
8. Could Assistance Dogs Improve Wellbeing for Aboriginal Peoples Living with Disability?
Bindi Bennett
9. Dispossession as Destination: Colonization and the Capture of Maori Land in Aotearoa New Zealand
Matthew Wynyard
10. Rangatahi Maori and Youth Justice in New Zealand
Arapera Blank-Penetito, Juan Tauri, and Robert Webb
11. Making Space in Canadian Sociology: Human and Other-than-Human Lifeworlds
Vanessa Watts
12. Decolonizing Climate Adaptation by Reacquiring Fractionated Tribal Lands
Melissa Watkinson-Schutten
Race and Indigenous Lifeworlds
13. Indigenizing the Sociology of Race
Tahu Kukutai
14. Reversing Statistical Erasure of Indigenous Peoples: The Social Construction of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S. using National Datasets
Kimberly R. Huyser and Sofia Locklear
15. Rendering the Future a White Possession: Producing Contingent Self-determination via Racialized Conceptions of Indigenous Youth
Lilly Brown
16. Segregation and American Indian Reservations: Places of Resilience, Continuity, and Healing
Tennille Larzelere Marley
17. Kids Feeling Good About Being Indigenous at School and its Link to Heightened Educational Aspirations
Huw Peacock and Michael Guerzoni
18. Race and Indigeneity: Accounting for Indigenous Kinship in American Indian Racial Boundaries
Allison Ramirez
19. Tribal Sovereignty and the Limits of Race for American Indians
Desi Small-Rodriguez and Theresa Rocha Beardall
20. Closing the Gap: Negotiating Indigenous Power and the Council of Australian Governments
Ian Anderson
21. Colonialism and the Racialization of Indigenous Identity
Angela A. Gonzales and Judy Kertész
22. Indigenous Societies and Disasters
Simon Lambert
23. Living Whiteness and Indigeneity: An Autoethnographic Confrontation
Alex Red Corn
24. Race, Racism, and Well-being Impacts on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Australia
Makayla-May Brinckley and Ray Lovett
Gender and Indigenous Lifeworlds
25. Indigenizing the Sociology of Gender
Robert Henry
26. Indigenous Womxn's Embodied Theory and Praxis: Auntie-ing On the Frontlines
Yvonne P. Sherwood and Michelle M. Jacob
27. Indigenous Gender Intersubjectivities: Political Bodies
Bronwyn Carlson, Tristan Kennedy, and Andrew Farrell
28. Deep Consciousness and Reclaiming the Old Ways: Aboriginal Women Leading a Paradigm Shift
Joselynn Baltra-Ulloa
29. Berdache to Two-Spirit and Beyond
Micha Davies-Cole and Margaret Robinson
30. American Indian Leadership: On Indigenous Geographies of Gender and Thrivance
Andrew J. Jolivétte
31. Gender, Epistemic Violence, and Indigenous Resistance
Nikki Moodie
32. Decolonizing Australian Settler-Colonial Masculinity
Jacob Prehn
