The Indigenous Nation Building Glossary

This field-defining, valuable open access glossary offers a unique, comprehensive introduction to core concepts for Indigenous nation-building research and practice. Bringing together an international, interdisciplinary team of experts and practitioners, and covering a broad range of geographies and peoples, the book offers over 100 extended definitions that include illustrative vignettes, full cross-references, and suggestions for further reading. Cumulatively, these provide the basis for an invaluable common language among Indigenous communities and organisations, researchers and policymakers, and anyone interested in strengths-based approaches to ''what works'' in fostering Indigenous self-determination through self-government. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Australian Indigenous Governance Institute.

Product details

• Authors: Simone Bignall, Anthea Compton, Daryle Rigney
• Assisted by: Bignall Simone (Editor), Anthea Compton (Editor), Daryle Rigney (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 19.03.2026
• EAN: 9781350533721
• ISBN: 978-1-350-53372-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Indigenous Self-Rule
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Politics & government, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Indigenous people: governance and politics, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies