GENDER AND RIGHTS Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous. This book, the second in a five-v olume series, deals with the two key concepts of gender and rights of indigenous peoples from all continents of the world. With contributions from renowned scholars, activists and experts across the globe, it looks at issues of indigenous human rights, gender justice, repression, resistance, resurgence and government policies in Canada, Latin America, North America, Australia, India, Brazil, Southeast Asia and Africa. Bringing together academic insights and experiences from the ground, this unique book with its wide coverage will serve as a comprehensive guide for students, teachers and scholars of indigenous studies. It will be essential reading for those in gender studies, human rights and law, social and cultural anthropology, tribal studies, sociology and social exclusion studies, religion and theology, cultural studies, literary and postcolonial studies, Third World and Global South studies, as well as activists working with Indigenous communities. G. N. Devy is Honorary Professor, Centre for Multidisciplinary Development Research, Dharwad, India, and Chairman, People’s Linguistic Survey of India. An award- winning writer and cultural activist, he is known for his 50- volume language survey. He is Founder and the first Director of the Adivasi Academy at Tejgadh in Gujarat, India, and was formerly Professor of English at M. S. University of Baroda. He is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, Linguapax Prize, Prince Claus Award and Padma Shri. With several books in English, Marathi and Gujarati, he has co-e dited (with Geoffrey V. Davis and K. K. Chakravarty) Narrating Nomadism: Tales of Recovery and Resistance (2012); Knowing Differently: The Challenge of the Indigenous (2013); Performing Identities: Celebrating Indigeneity in the Arts (2014); and The Language Loss of the Indigenous (2016), published by Routledge. Geoffrey V. Davis was Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Aachen, Germany. He was international chair of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) and chair of the European branch (EACLALS). He coedited Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/ Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English and the African studies series Matatu. His publications include Staging New Britain: Aspects of Black and South Asian British Theatre Practice (2006) and African Literatures, Postcolonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources (2013). Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies Series Editors: G. N. Devy Honorary Professor, Centre for Multidisciplinary Development Research, Dharwad, India, and Chairman, People’s Linguistic Survey of India Geoffrey V. Davis Former Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures, University of Aachen, Germany This series of volumes offers the most systematic and foundational literature available to date for use by undergraduate and postgraduate students of indigenous studies. It brings together essays by experts from across the globe on concepts forming the bedrock of this rapidly growing field in five focused volumes: Environment and Belief Systems (Vol. 1); Gender and Rights (Vol. 2); Indigeneity and Nation (Vol. 3); Orality and Language (Vol. 4); and Performance and Knowledge (Vol. 5). These contain short, informative and easily accessible essays on the perspectives of indigenous communities from all continents of the world. The essays are written specifically for an international audience. They thus allow drawing of transnational and cross-cultural parallels, and form useful material as textbooks as well as texts for general readership. Introducing a new orientation to traditional anthropology with comprehensive and in-depth studies, the volumes foreground knowledge traditions and praxis of indigenous communities. Environment and Belief Systems Edited by G. N. Devy and Geoffrey V. Davis Gender and Rights Edited by G. N. Devy and Geoffrey V. Davis Indigeneity and Nation Edited by G. N. Devy and Geoffrey V. Davis Orality and Language Edited by G. N. Devy and Geoffrey V. Davis Performance and Knowledge Edited by G. N. Devy and Geoffrey V. Davis For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/ Key-Concepts-in-Indigenous-Studies/book-series/KCIS GENDER AND RIGHTS Edited by G. N. Devy and Geoffrey V. 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Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing- in- Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-0 -3 67-2 4521- 4 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0 -3 67-2 6322- 5 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0 -3 67-2 6216- 7 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC CONTENTS List of contributors ix Preface x Acknowledgements xv Introduction 1 G. N. Devy 1 Writing and re- writing indigenous human rights in the African laboratory 9 Michela Borzaga 2 Indigenous rights in Latin America: repression, resistance, resurgence 41 Rebecca K. Root 3 Gender justice and indigenous women in Latin America 60 Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo Translated by Rodrigo Alvarez Hernández 4 Gender in North America 77 Priscilla Settee 5 Indigenous human rights in Canada 91 Michael Keefer viii Contents 6 Constitutional geographies and cartographies of impunity: human rights and adivasis/tribes in contemporary India 137 Kalpana Kannabiran 7 Empowerment: Gaddi women of Himachal Pradesh, India 158 Molly Kaushal 8 Gender in Australian indigenous literature and Maori and Pacific Island literatures 177 Anne Brewster and Chris Prentice Index 210 CONTRIBUTORS Michela Borzaga is Lecturer, English Department, University of Vienna, Austria. Anne Brewster is Associate Professor, School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales, Australia. Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo is Senior Professor at the Center for Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico City. Kalpana Kannabiran is Professor of Sociology and Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, India, a research institute supported by the Indian Council for Social Science Research. She has taught sociology and law at NAL- SAR University of Law and is co- founder of Asmita Resource Centre for Women. Molly Kaushal is Professor at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India. Michael Keefer is Professor Emeritus, School of English and Theatre Studies, Uni- versity of Guelph, Canada. Chris Prentice is Associate Professor, Department of English and Linguistics, Uni- versity of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Rebecca K. Root is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Stud- ies, and Director of the College Honors Program and the minor in Human Rights and Genocide Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA. Priscilla Settee is Associate Professor, Department of Native Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.