Indigenous peoples and poverty an international perspective

Eversole, Robyn. (Added Author). McNeish, John-Andrew. (Added Author). Cimadamore, Alberto D. (Added Author).

Summary: 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 analyses patterns of indigenous disadvantage worldwide and explores some difficult questions, including the right balance between autonomy and participation, the tensions underlying ?pro-poor? and ?inclusionary? development policies, and the new spaces that such policies may provide for indigenous peoples to advance their demands. The rich collection of country case studies illustrates that both diff.

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ISBN: 9781848131477 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 184813147X (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781842776780
ISBN: 1842776789 (hb)
ISBN: 1842776797 (pb)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (311 p.) : 1 map.
Publisher: London : Zed, 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.