This book deals with the two key concepts of gender and rights of the indigenous people from all continents of the world. It looks at issues of indigenous human rights, gender justice, repression, resistance, resurgence and government policies in Canada, Latin America, North America, Australia, India, Brazil, South East Asia and Africa.
This book deals with the two key concepts of gender and rights of the indigenous people from all continents of the world. It looks at issues of indigenous human rights, gender justice, repression, resistance, resurgence and government policies in Canada, Latin America, North America, Australia, India, Brazil, South East Asia and Africa.
G. N. Devy is Honorary Professor, Centre for Multidisciplinary Development Research, Dharwad, India, and Chairman, People's Linguistic Survey of India. An award-winning writer and cultural activist, he is known for his 50-volume language survey. He is Founder Director of the Adivasi Academy at Tejgadh in Gujarat, India, and was formerly Professor of English at M. S. University of Baroda. He is recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, Linguapax Prize, Prince Claus Award and Padma Shri. With several books in English, Marathi and Gujarati, he has co-edited (with Geoffrey V. Davis and K. K. Chakravarty) Narrating Nomadism: Tales of Recovery and Resistance (2012); Knowing Differently: The Challenge of the Indigenous (2013); Performing Identities: Celebrating Indigeneity in the Arts (2014); and The Language Loss of the Indigenous (2016), published by Routledge. Geoffrey V. Davis was Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Aachen, Germany. He was international chair of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) and chair of the European branch (EACLALS). He coedited Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English and the African studies series Matatu. His publications include Staging New Britain: Aspects of Black and South Asian British Theatre Practice (2006) and African Literatures, Postcolonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources (2013).
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Introduction G. N. Devy 1. Writing and Re-writing Indigenous Human Rights in the African Laboratory Michela Borzaga 2. Indigenous Rights in Latin America: Repression, Resistance, Resurgence Rebecca K. Root 3. Gender Justice and Indigenous Women in Latin America Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo 4. Gender in North America Priscilla Settee 5. Indigenous Human Rights in Canada Michael Keefer 6. Constitutional Geographies and Cartographies of Impunity: Human Rights and Adivasis/Tribes in Contemporary India Kalpana Kannabiran 7. Empowerment: Gaddi Women of Himachal Pradesh, India Molly Kaushal 8. Gender in Australian Indigenous Literature and Maori and Pacific Island Literatures Anne Brewster and Chris Prentice
Introduction G. N. Devy 1. Writing and Re-writing Indigenous Human Rights in the African Laboratory Michela Borzaga 2. Indigenous Rights in Latin America: Repression, Resistance, Resurgence Rebecca K. Root 3. Gender Justice and Indigenous Women in Latin America Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo 4. Gender in North America Priscilla Settee 5. Indigenous Human Rights in Canada Michael Keefer 6. Constitutional Geographies and Cartographies of Impunity: Human Rights and Adivasis/Tribes in Contemporary India Kalpana Kannabiran 7. Empowerment: Gaddi Women of Himachal Pradesh, India Molly Kaushal 8. Gender in Australian Indigenous Literature and Maori and Pacific Island Literatures Anne Brewster and Chris Prentice
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