Indigenous peoples and poverty : an international perspective / / edited by Robyn Eversole, John-Andrew McNeish, Alberto D. Cimadamore

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910170977603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2005; [London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021
• ISBN: 1-350-22075-2; 1-84813-705-2; 1-84813-147-X; 1-281-21603-8; 9786611216030
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Collana: CROP international studies in poverty research
• Disciplina: 362.5089
• Soggetti: Indigenous peoples - Economic conditions; Poverty; Poverty & unemployment; Development studies; Indigenous peoples
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Indigenous peoples and poverty / John-Andrew McNeish and Robyn Eversole -- INDIGENOUS POVERTY: Overview: Patterns of indigenous disadvantage worldwide / Robyn Eversole -- The conditions of life and health for indigenous women in areas of high marginalization, Chiapas, Mexico / Hector Javier Sanchez-Perez, Guadalupe Vargas Morales and Josep Maria Jansa -- Scarred landscapes and tattooed faces: poverty, identity and land conflicts in a Taiwanese indigenous community / Scott Simon -- Nutritional vulnerability in indigenous children of the Americas: a human rights issue / Siri Damman -- INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN NATION-STATES: RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND SELF-DETERMINATION: Overview: The right to self-determination / John-Andrew McNeish and Robyn Eversole -- Poverty ; and international aid among Russia's indigenous peoples / Indra Overland -- Indigenous poeples of South-East Asia: poverty, identity and resistance / Don McCaskill and Jeff Rutherford -- Tackling indigenous disadvantage in the Twenty-First Century: 'social inclusion' and Maori in New Zealand -- Political participation and poverty in Colombian indigenous communities: the case of the Zenu and Mokana peoples / A. Carolina Borda and Dario J. Mejia Montalvo -- Indigenous peoples, poverty and self-determination in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States / Stephen Cornell -- INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' PERSPECTIVES ON DEVELOPMENT: Overview: Indigenous peoples' perspective on poverty and development / John-Andrew McNeish -- Ecological wealth versus social poverty: contradictions of and perspectives on indigenous development in Central American and Mexico / Pablo Alarcon-Chaires -- Indigenous anti-poverty strategies in an Australian town / Robyn Eversole, Leon Ridgeway, and David Mercer -- Sami responses to poverty in the Nordic countries / Christian Jakob Burmeister Hicks and Ande Somby -- Conclusions: Poverty, peoples and the meaning of change / John-Andrew McNeish and Robyn Eversole.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book brings together two key concerns in development policy: the urgent need for poverty reduction and the situation of indigenous peoples in both developing and industrialized countries. It analyzes patterns of indigenous disadvantage worldwide and explores some difficult questions, including the right balance between autonomy and participation.