Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology

The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology challenges the traditional way that Indigenous Peoples and Societies are understood within the discipline. It does so by bringing together 40 leading and emerging Indigenous scholars from across the CANZUS Countries to provide, for the first time, an authoritative, state of the art survey of Indigenous sociological thinking. These authors demonstrate that the Indigenous sociological voice is a new sociological paradigm and demonstrates a distinctively Indigenous methodological approach.

List of 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

About the author

Maggie Walter (PhD; FASSA) is Palawa (Tasmanian Aboriginal) and Distinguished Professor of Sociology (Emerita) at the University of Tasmania. A previous Pro-Vice Chancellor, Aboriginal Leadership (2014-2020), Professor Walter's research centers on challenging, empirically and theoretically, standard social science explanations for Indigenous inequality. In May 2021, Maggie was appointed a Commissioner with the Victorian Yoo-rrook Justice Commission, inquiring into systemic injustices experienced by First Peoples since colonization.

Tahu Kukutai is a social scientist who specialises in Maori and Indigenous demographic research. She has written extensively on issues of Maori population change and identity, Indigenous data sovereignty, official statistics and ethnic classification. Tahu has undertaken research for numerous tribes, Maori communities, and government agencies, and provided strategic advice across a range of sectors. Tahu is a founding member of the Maori Data Sovereignty

Network Te Mana Raraunga and the Global Indigenous Data Alliance. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Aparangi.

Angela A. Gonzales (Hopi tribal citizen) is an associate professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation, and a Thought Leader Fellow in the American Indian Policy Institute at Arizona State University. As a community-engaged, transdisciplinary scholar, her research cuts across and integrates knowledge and practice across the fields of sociology, Indigenous studies, and public health with a focus on understanding and addressing the social determinants of Indigenous health. She strives to embody the Hopi values of sumingnawa (working together with others) and numingnawa (working for the benefit of all) through her research and community service.

Robert Henry, Ph.D., is Métis from Prince Albert, SK and an assistant professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Department of Indigenous Studies. He is the scientific

director of the SK-NEIHR, and holds a Canada Research Chair - Tier II in Indigenous Justice and Wellbeing. Robert's research areas include Indigenous street gangs and gang theories, Indigenous masculinities, Indigenous and critical research methodologies, youth mental health, ethics and visual research methods. He has published two photovoice projects Brighter Days Ahead (2013) and Indigenous Women and Street Gangs: Survivance Narratives (2021) with Indigenous men and women involved in street gangs.

Summary

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.

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“In this volume, Indigenous scholars confront the manifold injuries of the past and the ongoing impact of these harms on our present, and respond with Indigenous solutions that critically engage, analyse, and offer ways forward. Power, and the exercise of power, is critical to the discipline of sociology. It is apparent in this collection in the way the authors articulate the manifestations of power in the everyday life of our communities. Among other things, Indigenous sociologists and scholars are well-placed to interrogate issues arising from the reproduction of both privilege and disadvantage as they relate to Indigenous peoples. This does not mean a return to a deficit lens but in the hands of these authors it demonstrates profound honesty alongside an evidence base and intellectual vitality that supports practices of restoration, resurgence, and flourishing. It is the text of our future.”—Tracey McIntosh (Ngãi Tûhoe), Professor of Indigenous Studies, University of Auckland

Product details

• Authors: Maggie (Distinguished Professor Emerita Walter, Maggie (EDT)/ Kukutai Walter
• Assisted by: Angela Gonzales (Editor), Robert Henry (Editor), Henry Robert (Editor), Tahu Kukutai (Editor), Kukutai Tahu (Editor), Maggie Walter (Editor), Walter Maggie (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2023
• EAN: 9780197528778
• ISBN: 978-0-19-752877-8
• No. of pages: 560
• Series: Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands