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   Articles with "indigenous people" as a keyword



Cultural adaptation to climate change among indigenous people of South India

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recommendations! Published in 2017 at "Climatic Change"

DOI: 10.1007/s10584-017-2116-8

Abstract: The mainstream discourses on global climate change have tended to focus on mitigation and have neglected the adaptive measures, particularly at the local level, even though the local/indigenous people have been considered to be more… read more here.

Keywords: cultural adaptation; change; climate change; indigenous people ... See more keywords
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Not Everyone Wants Roads: Assessing Indigenous People’s Support for Roads in a Globally Important Tiger Conservation Landscape

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recommendations! Published in 2018 at "Human Ecology"

DOI: 10.1007/s10745-018-0029-4

Abstract: Road development in the tropics is fraught with economic, socio-political, and environmental risks. Roads have helped alleviate rural poverty to some extent (Jones 2006), but have also caused tremendous collateral environmental damage (e.g., Singleton et… read more here.

Keywords: people support; everyone wants; wants roads; roads assessing ... See more keywords
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Regional geology, extreme weather events and natural disasters: Environmentally-forced, involuntary settlement migrations of the indigenous people of southern Taiwan

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recommendations! Published in 2021 at "Tectonophysics"

DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2021.228796

Abstract: Abstract Active mountain belts in monsoonal climates are characterized by rapid denudation due to erosion and mass wasting processes. In such areas, unstable topography caused by local geological conditions combined with extreme rainfall or earthquakes… read more here.

Keywords: involuntary settlement; indigenous people; geology; southern taiwan ... See more keywords

Culturally safe interventions for Indigenous people living with dementia: an empty scoping review and urgent call to action

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recommendations! Published in 2025 at "Ageing and Society"

DOI: 10.1017/s0144686x25000133

Abstract: Abstract Colonization and ongoing colonial policies and practices are contributing to increased dementia rates in Indigenous populations. This health inequity could be addressed by implementing culturally safe dementia interventions specifically designed for Indigenous people. We… read more here.

Keywords: interventions indigenous; dementia; indigenous people; scoping review ... See more keywords
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Capability listing and functioning achievements of indigenous people of a developing country: testing the moderating effect of the use of ICT

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recommendations! Published in 2021 at "Review of Social Economy"

DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2021.1939120

Abstract: There is a gap in the existing literature in exploring comprehensive capability needs and degree of functioning achievements of indigenous people living in developing nations. This study offers a n... read more here.

Keywords: listing functioning; functioning achievements; capability listing; indigenous people ... See more keywords

Framing the Yanomami: decolonial analysis of U.S coverage of Indigenous people in Brazil during COVID-19

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recommendations! Published in 2024 at "Ethnic and Racial Studies"

DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2024.2362453

Abstract: ABSTRACT Mainstream news coverage in the U.S. of Indigenous people and the issues that threaten their survival has largely validated misconceptions rooted in colonial views and discourses dependent on harmful stereotypes. This study employs a… read more here.

Keywords: indigenous people; analysis; framing yanomami; coverage indigenous ... See more keywords
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Social Work Practice with Canada’s Indigenous People: Teaching a Difficult History

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recommendations! Published in 2018 at "Practice"

DOI: 10.1080/09503153.2018.1483493

Abstract: Social work in Canada has been historically influenced by cultural and language tensions; for instance, as a nation that has understood itself to have been ‘founded’ as a colony by the English and French. However,… read more here.

Keywords: history; practice; social work; indigenous people ... See more keywords

After the War: Returned Soldiers and the Mental and Physical Scars of World War I

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recommendations! Published in 2018 at "Australian Historical Studies"

DOI: 10.1080/1031461x.2018.1454273

Abstract: tural historian at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Morgan has published widely in gender, colonialism and imperialism in the British Empire with a nineteenth-century Canadian foundation. A first chapter focuses on Indigenous people… read more here.

Keywords: chapter; war; settler; settler colonial ... See more keywords
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Precarious Subjects: Picturing Indigenous British Subjecthood in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Australia

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recommendations! Published in 2023 at "Australian Historical Studies"

DOI: 10.1080/1031461x.2022.2130380

Abstract: Recent discussion in Australia has highlighted how Indigenous citizenship remains troubled by the denial of Indigenous sovereignty. This article takes up a pre-history to these discussions, returning to a transitional period (1830s–1850s) in the Australian… read more here.

Keywords: precarious subjects; subjects picturing; picturing indigenous; indigenous people ... See more keywords

The deliberative deficit of prior consultation mechanisms

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recommendations! Published in 2019 at "Australian Journal of Political Science"

DOI: 10.1080/10361146.2019.1601681

Abstract: ABSTRACT This article discusses the right to prior consultation guaranteed to indigenous people by international documents such as Convention 169 of the International Labour Organisation and the United Nations Declaration on the rights of Indigenous… read more here.

Keywords: consultation; consultation mechanisms; deliberative deficit; prior consultation ... See more keywords

Understanding Indigenous Innovation in Rural West Africa: Challenges to Diffusion of Innovations Theory and Current Social Innovation Practice

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recommendations! Published in 2017 at "Journal of Human Development and Capabilities"

DOI: 10.1080/19452829.2016.1270917

Abstract: Abstract Most social innovation (SI) work done in developing countries is carried out through development agencies that focus on initiating innovations and processes, and establishing institutions that cultivate a change-oriented mindset. I offer a general… read more here.

Keywords: west africa; innovation; diffusion innovations; indigenous people ... See more keywords