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.

About the author

Anthea Compton is Research Fellow at the Jumbunna Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.Daryle Rigney is director of the Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures research hub at Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous
Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Daryle is one of
Australia's foremost Indigenous nation building scholars and practitioners. He has been a critical strategist for the Ngarrindjeri Nation in asserting its sovereignty and exercising its inherent rights to self-determination and was and is pivotal to the formation of Ngarrindjeri decision-makings institutions and mechanisms.
Linda Tuhiwai is Vice-Chancellor with responsibilities for Maori development at the University of Waikato, as well as Dean of the University's School of Maori and Pacific Development. Her other books include the co-edited collections Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology (Zed 2019) and Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education (2018).Simone Bignall is Senior Researcher at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research,
University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Product details

• Assisted by: Anthea Compton (Editor), Larissa Behrendt (Editor), Simone Bignall (Editor), Anthea Compton (Editor), Daryle Rigney (Editor), Larissa Behrendt (Editor), Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Editor), Daryle Rigney (Editor), Simone Bignall (Editor), Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 17.09.2026
• EAN: 9781350533738
• ISBN: 978-1-350-53373-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Indigenous Self-Rule
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Colonialism & imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Comparative Politics, Colonialism and imperialism, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity