Indigenous Societies in the Post-colonial World Responses and Resilience Through Global Perspectives

This edited book provides perceptions on “indigeneity” through a global perspective. Emphasizing the contemporary and postcolonial debates on indigenous, it delves into diversity and dissonance within indigenous concepts. Through its chapters based on theoretical and empirical studies from Asian, African, and American perceptions of indigenous societies, it brings out complexity, resilience, and response of “indigenous” in the post-colonial global society. It especially looks at how these societies manage to move forward by going beyond the stigma of the colonial past.  The chapters in the book are divided into three sections where they discuss indigenous cultures through interdisciplinary perspectives. The narrative approach of historical concepts and contemporary indigenous challenges within the book include anthropological, cultural, ecological, historical, literary, and legal studies. The contributions in the collection come from widely respected international scholars whoare engaged in indigeneity and postcolonial questions. It allows the reader to (re)discover the theories and resilience of the indigenous societies that are historically marked and are reshaping the histories and contemporary narratives in the world. This book is of particular interest to scholars, students, policymakers, and people curious about the histories and the dynamic progress of the indigenous and indigenous societies of Africa, the Americas, and Asia. 

Bina Sengar is Associate Professor of History in the Department of History and Ancient Indian Culture at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University of Aurangabad in India, she is also Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Awardee (2018-2019) and continues as Faculty Fellow in Global Indigenous Forum of Florida International University, Miami. Her research areas are in the fields of rural and community histories, cultures, and policy studies for indigenous societies of South Asia, Native American studies, and Global Indigeneity.

A. Mia Elise Adjoumani is Associate Professor of General and Comparative Literature at Félix Houphouët-Boigny University, Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire). Her research focuses on African Diaspora, Interculturality, Postcolonialism in Francophone and African-American literatures. She is Fulbright Fellow (Howard University, Washington, D.C., 2018-2019).