This series focuses on issues of Indigenous justice, including issues of social and criminal justice, law, and environmental justice as they impact Indigenous North America (with occasional references to other Indigenous nations).
With a primary focus on the mainland United States, books will also include Alaska and Hawaii. The books are a collection of specially commissioned essays that provide an overview of current issues. Contributors use theoretical approaches not usually applied to Indigenous justice issues—colonial law, human rights, and sovereignty. Chapter authors are new and up-and-coming Native American scholars, as well as longtime scholars in the field.
This book series will be of interest and use to undergraduate and graduate students of Native American, American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Indigenous peoples’ justice issues; human rights, criminal justice and legal scholars; criminal justice and environmental professionals; and Indigenous community leaders.
Between 2009 and 2013, the University of Arizona Press, the University of Minnesota Press, the University of North Carolina Press, and Oregon State University Press collaborated with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to publish nearly 50 books in the First Peoples initiative.
The Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies series anchors intellectual work within an Indigenous framework that reflects Native-centered concerns and objectives. Series titles expand and deepen discussions about Indigenous people beyond nation-state boundaries, and complicate existing notions of Indigenous identity.
The series editors seek monographs, edited collections, and synthetic works by new and established authors whose work prioritizes Indigenous peoples’ voices and knowledge and critically engages their lives, stories, and experiences. The series encourages a critical assessment of the “locations of engagement,” where the lived experiences of Indigenous peoples intersect with scholarly and Indigenous intellectual production. The series editors are especially interested in works that analyze colonization, land dispossession, and oppression while foregrounding Indigenous peoples’ resistance to these processes. Series titles ideally consider local problems and solutions with global applications.
The intended audience includes scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and community-based and human and Indigenous rights organizations. A major goal of the series is to help readers reconsider issues of sovereignty, nationhood, and peoplehood; assess global Indigenous rights movements; and explore Indigenous theory and intellectual traditions.
Please contact the series editors for a full description and submission guidelines.
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