Review of World Heritage Sites and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights by Stefan Disko and Helen Tugehndhat (eds.)
Bas Verschuuren reviews the book World Heritage Sites and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, edited by Stefan Disko and Helen Tugehndhat.
indigenous peoples
"Itineraries of Conflict in Arundhati Roy’s Walking with the Comrades"
Alok Amatya studies the depiction of indigenous struggles against the grab of minerals, crude oil, and other natural resources by private and government corporations in works such as Arundhati Roy’s travel essay Walking with the Comrades (2010). He suggests that narratives of conflict over the extraction of natural resources can be studied as the corpus of “resource conflict literature,” thus generating a global comparative framework for the study of contemporary indigenous struggles.
"Towards a Conceptualisation of Power in Fuelwood Access in Zimbabwe"
The authors illuminate the power relations between state actors and the local people in accessing fuelwood in Zimbabwe, and how discourses of scarcity enhance these power dynamics.
"What the Gringos Brought: Local Perspectives on a Private Protected Area in Chilean Patagonia"
The authors explore the case of a Privately Protected Area (PPA) in Chilean Patagonia to learn its impact on local residents. Based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews, they find that the park has been detrimental to local livelihoods, has disrupted systems of production, and has elicited a negative emotional response.
The Beavercene: Eradication and Settler-Colonialism in Tierra del Fuego
Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 1
Oil, Spermaceti, Ambergris, and Teeth: Products of the Nineteenth- Century Pacific Sperm-Whaling Industry
Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century sperm whale trade.
Māori Women in Southern New Zealand’s Shore-Whaling World
Kate Stevens and Angela Wanhalla explore the role of Māori women in nineteenth-century shore-whaling.
Newspaper Stories Promoting Local Nineteenth-Century Shore-Based Whaling in Hawaiian Waters
Susan A. Lebo analyzes three decades of newspaper articles reporting whaling in Hawaiian waters from the 1840s.
Whaling, Tabua, and Cokanauto
Vicki Luker details the important role played by tabua—or whales’ teeth—in Fijian history.
Nineteenth-Century Japanese Whaling and Early Territorial Expansion in the Pacific
Jakobina Arch contrasts the modern Japanese whaling industry with expansionist imperial Meiji regime policies.