Bibliography

A regularly updated bibliography on decolonial legal studies and decolonial theory

Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Afrikology/Africana and Pluriversal Epistemologies

Coulthard, Glen S. Red skin white masks: Rejecting the colonial politics of recognition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Collyer, Fran, João Maia, Raewyn Connell, and Robert Morrell. Knowledge and Global Power, Making new sciences in the South. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2019.

Deloria, Vine Jr. God is Red: A Native View of Religion. Wheat Ridge CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2003. 30th Anniversary Ed. God is red: Deloria, Vine: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive Houtoundji, Paulin (éd). Endogenous Knowledge: Research Trails. Oxford: Codesria, 1997.

Houtoundji, Paulin (éd). Les Savoirs endogènes : pistes pour une recherche, Dakar, Éditions du Codesria, 1994

King, Tiffany L. The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2019.

Kusch, Rodolfo. Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América. Durham NC: University Press, 2010.

Mallon, Florencia. Decolonizing Native Histories: Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas. Duke University Press, 2011.

Mitchell, Sherri. Aktivismus heißt Verbindung: Indigene Weisungen zur Heilung der Welt. Frankfurt: w_orten & meer, 2020.

Mitchell, Sherri. Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2018.

Mlambo, Nelson, Artwell Nhemachena, and Jairos Kangira. Displacement. Elimination and Replacement of Indigenous People Putting into Perspective Land Ownership and Ancestry in Decolonising Contemporary Zimbabwe. Baltimore, Maryland: Project Muse, 2019.

Nzewi, Meki and Odyke Nzewi. A Contemporary Study of Musical Arts Informed by African Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Vol 1. Cape Town: African Minds Publishers.

Odora Hoppers, Catherine, and Howard Richards. Rethinking thinking: Modernity’s “other” and the transformation of the university. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 2012.

Paradies, Yin. Unsettling truths: modernity, (de-)coloniality and Indigenous futures. Postcolonial Studies 23, no 4 (2020): 1-19. DOI:10.1080/13688790.2020.1809069

Randazzo, Elisa and Hannah Richter. The Politics of the Anthropocene: Temporality, Ecology, and Indigeneity. International Political Sociology 0, no 1 (2021): 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olab006

Richardson, Benjamin J., Shin Imai, and Kent McNeil, eds. Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Comparative and Critical Perspectives, Hart Publishing, 2009.

Rifkin, Mark. Beyond Settler Time, Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination. Duke University Press, 2019.

Simpson, Audra and Andrea Smith (eds), Theorizing Native Studies. Duke University Press, 2014

Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. Dancing on our turtle’s back: Stories of Nishnaabeg re-creation. Winnipeg, Man: Arbeiter Ring, 2011. Dancing on our turtle's back : stories of Nishnaabeg re-creation, resurgence and a new emergence : Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 1971- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive Avail. with Login

Simpson, Leanne. Betasamosake. As we have always done: Indigenous freedom through radical resistance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. As we have always done : indigenous freedom through radical resistance : Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 1971- author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Avail. with Login

Wolfe, Patrick. Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native, Journal of Genocide Research 8, no 4 (2006): 387-409. DOI: 10.1080/14623520601056240

Yunkaporta, Tyson. SandTalk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World. HarperOne, 2020.

Critical Indigenous Legal Theory

Barker, Joanne. Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity. Duke University Press, 2011. https://archive.org/details/nativeactslawrec0000bark Avail. with Login

Borrows, John and Andrée Boisselle, Indigenous Law and Governance: Challenging Pre-contact and Post-contact Distinctions in Canadian Constitutional Law? Thémis, 2017.

Birrell, Kathleen, Indigeneity: Before and Beyond the Law, Routledge, 2017.

Curley, Andrew. “Our Winters’ Rights”: Challenging Colonial Water Laws. Global Environmental Politics 19, no 3 (2019): 57–76. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00515

Datta, Ranjan (ed). Indigenous Reconcialiation and Decolonisation: Narratives of Social Justice and Community Engagement. New York: Routledge, 2021.

Robinson, Dylan, Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.

Gordon Christie. Law, Theory and Aboriginal Peoples. Indigenous Law Journal 67, no 2 (2003): 68-115.

Kimmerer, Robin Wall, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Penguin, 2019.

Kovach, Margaret, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts. University of Toronto, 2nd edition, 2021.

Kuokkanen, Rauna. (2012). Self-determination and Indigenous women’s rights at the intersection of international human rights. Human Rights Quarterly 34, no 1 (2012): 225–250.

Kuokkanen, Rauna. Restructuring relations: Indigenous self-determination, governance and gender. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Miller, Robert J. and Jacinta Ruru, 'An Indigenous Lens into Comparative Law: The Doctrine of Discovery in the United States and New Zealand', Lewis & Clark Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-7 West Virginia Law Review, Vol. 111, 2008.

Nielsen, Marianne O., and James W. Zion (eds). Navajo Nation Peacemaking: Living Traditional Justice. University of Arizona Press, 2005. 3rd ed. Navajo Nation peacemaking : living traditional justice : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.

Pasternak, Shiri. Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the State. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

Scott, Dayna N. and Andrée Boisselle, ‘If There Can Only Be ‘One Law’, It Must Be Treaty Law. Learning From Kanawayandan D’aaki’, UNB Law Review, Special Issue on “Puzzles of Pipelines and Riddles of Resources”, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper, 2019.

Williams, Robert A. The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest. USA: Oxford University Press, 1990. Reprint.

Zoettl, Peter Anton, “The (Il)legal Indian: The Tupinambá and the Juridification of Indigenous Rights and Lives in North-Eastern Brazil”, Social & Legal Studies 25, Issue 1 (2016): 3–21. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663915593412.

Law and Race

Adebisi, Foluke. “Chapter 47: Law, Race and Development”, in Koen de Feyter, Gamze E. Türkelli and Stéphanie de Moerloose (eds), Encyclopedia of Law and Development, London: Elgar Publishing, 2021: 177-180.

Levitt, Jeremy I (ed). Black Women and International Law: Deliberate Interactions, Movements and Actions. Cambridge: University Press, 2015.

Modiri, Joel M. The Colour of Law, Power and Knowledge: Introducing Critical Race Theory in (Post-) Apartheid South Africa. South African Journal on Human Rights 28, 3 (2012): 405-436. https://doi.org/10.1080/19962126.2012.11865054

Wynter, Sylvia. On the Blackness of Blacknuss : No Humans Involved. New York: Publication Hudson, 2015. Also available online via Wynter, Sylvia. No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues. Forum NHI Knowledge for the 21st Century 1, no 1 (1994): 42-71.

Property, Possession, Peasantry and Reparations

Arboleda, Martín. Planetary Mine, Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism. New York: Verso, 2020.

Bhandar, Brenna. Colonial Lives of Property, Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership. Duke University Press, 2018.

Brennan, Fernne and John Packer (eds). Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the 'Past'?.London: Routledge, 2013.

Cabral, Amilcar. Discours contre le colonialisme portugais d’octobre 1965 à Dar es Salaam (Tanzanie). http://casacomum.org/cc/visualizador?pasta=04322.002.015

Chang, Cun-chien, Property Law, Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Coronil, Fernando. The Magical State: Nature, Money and Modernity in Venezuela. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Cameron, Angela, Sari Graben, and Val Napoleon, eds. Creating Indigenous Property: Power Rights, and Relationships, University of Toronto Press, 2020. ECCHR, Power of legal interpretation: Property and land as central questions of material decolonization Conversation with Simon Masodzi Chinyai. https://www.ecchr.eu/fileadmin/Portraits/ECCHR_Chinyai_Interview_EN.pdf (also available in German: Theurer, Karina and Wolfang Kakeck, Dekoloniale Rechtskritik und Rechtspraxis. Nomos, 2020)

Escobar, Arturo. Encountering Development: the Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton University Press, 2012.Reprint.

Kim, Jodi. Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries. Duke University Press, 2021.

Kinsella, John, False Claims of Colonial Thieves, Charmaine Papertalk Green, Magabala Books, 2018.

Koshy, Susan, Cacho, Lisa Marie, Byrd, Jodi A. & Brian Jordan Jefferson (eds). Colonial Racial Capitalism. Duke University Press, 2022.

Mamdani, Mahmood. Neither Settler nor Native: the Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.

McFarlane, Peter, and Nicole Schabus, A Manual for Decolonization – Whose Land is it Anyway?, Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC, 2017.

Mehmet, Ozay. Westernizing the Third World: The Eurocentricity of economic development theories. London: Routledge, 1999. Westernizing the Third World : eurocentricity of economic development theories : Mehmet, Ozay : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Moreton-Robinson, Aileen. The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty. University of Minnesota Press, 2015.

Nesbitt, Nick, The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean, University of Virginia Press, 2022.

Nichols, Robert. Theft Is Property!: Dispossession and Critical Theory (Radical Américas). Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2019.

Robertson, Lindsay G. Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands. London: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Warikandwa, Tapiwa Victor, Artwell Nhemachena, and Oliver Mtapuri, eds. Transnational Land Grabs and Restitution in an Age of the (De-)Militarised New Scramble for Africa: A Pan African Socio-Legal Perspective, Langaa RPCIG, 2017.

Zambrana, Rocío. Colonial Debt: the Case of Puerto Rico. Duke University Press: 2021.

Healing

Foster, Laura A. Reinventing Hoodia, Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa. Johannesburg: Wits University, 2018.

McCaslin, Wanda D. Justice as Healing: Indigenous Ways. Living Justice Press, 2005.

Menakem, Resmaa. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. Place: Central Recovery Press, 2017.

Singh, Anneliese A. and Derald Wing Sue. The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing. New Harbinger Publications, 2019.

Thornton, Robert. Healing the Exposed Being, The Ngoma healing tradition in South Africa. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2017. Transitional & Restorative Justice

Moyo, Khanyisela. Postcolonial Transitional Justice: Zimbabwe and Beyond. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Nabudere, Dani Wadada, and Andreas Velthuizen. Restorative justice in Africa: from transdimensional knowledge to a vulture of harmony. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa, 2013.

Nielsen, Marianne O. and James W. Zion (eds). Navajo Nation Peacemaking: Living Traditional Justice. University of Arizona Press, 2005. 3rd ed. UCICC. Approaching National Reconciliation in Uganda, Perspectives on Applicable Justice systems. https://land.igad.int/index.php/documents-1/countries/uganda/conflict-7/1172-approaching-national-reconciliation-in-uganda-perspectives-on-applicable-justice-systems/file

Research Methodologies

Bangura, Abdul Karim. African-Centered Research Methodologies: From ancient times to the present. San Diego: Cognellap, 2011.

Brown, Leslie, and Susan Strega (eds). Research as Resistance: Revisiting Critical, Indigenous, and Anti-Oppressive Approaches.Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press Inc., 2015. 2nd ed.

Chilisa, Bagele. Indigenous Research Methodologies. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2020. 2nd ed.

Dastile, Nontyatyambo. Beyond Euro-Western dominance: An African-centred decolonial paradigm. Africanus Journal of Development Studies 43, no 2 (2017): 93-104. DOI:10.25159/0304-615X/2304

DeCuir-Gunby, Jessica T., Thandeka K. Chapman, and Paul A. Schutz. Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies: Lessons from the Field. New York: Routledge, 2018.

Denzin, Norman K., Yvonna S. Lincoln and Linda Smith, eds. Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2008.

Esposito, Jennifer and Venus E. Evans-Winters. Introduction to Intersectional Qualitative Research. SAGE Publications, 2021.

Guha, Ranajit. ‘The Prose of Counter-Insurgency’ in Ranajit Guha (ed), Selected Subaltern Studies II. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1983: 45-84.

McDougal III, Serie. Research Methods in Africana Studies: Revised Edition. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang US, 2017.

Pelias, Ronald J. A Methodology of the Heart: Evoking Academic and Daily Life. Place: AltaMira Press, 2004.

Rigney, Lester-Irabinna. Internationalization of an indigenous anticolonial cultural critique of research methodologies: A guide to indigenist research methodology and its principles. Wicazo Sa Review 14, no 2 (1999): 109-12.

Smith, Linda T. Decoloniying Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. Zed Books, 2012. 2nd ed.