Global networks of anticolonial resistance: Bronwyn Carlson, Tristan Kennedy, Madi Day (eds), Global networks of Indigeneity: Peoples, sovereignty and futures, Manchester University Press, 2026 | settler colonial studies blog

Global networks of anticolonial resistance: Bronwyn Carlson, Tristan Kennedy, Madi Day (eds), Global networks of Indigeneity: Peoples, sovereignty and futures, Manchester University Press, 2026

07Mar26

Description: There are approximately 370 million Indigenous people in the world, belonging to 5,000 different groups, in 90 countries worldwide. Indigenous people live in every region of the world. As ‘being Indigenous’ is increasingly acquiring a more globalised focus, terms such as ‘Indigeneity’ are useful to refer to our membership of the global community. As Meran argues, ‘Indigeneity’ has come to presuppose a sphere of commonality among those who form a world collectivity of ‘indigenous peoples’ (2009, 303). Similarly, Maaka and Fleras (2005, 20) argue that, while Indigeneity has traditionally implied a relationship or tension between Indigenous peoples and politics, and colonial governments, the term also now encompasses connections between Indigenous peoples through shared experiences of colonialism. This volume comprises 13 chapters that seek to answer what it means to be Indigenous in an increasingly globalized and connected world. It challenges the notion that Indigeneity can only be defined in relation to colonialism and speaks to the way in which Indigenous people draw on relationality to strengthen our connections and support each other as we imagine a future in which we are thriving.

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