Abstract
The chapter considers three challenges that Indigenous perspectives provide for Southern criminology: the importance of understanding colonialism and the coloniality of power; the role of Indigenous knowledges, epistemologies and methodologies; and the political questions that Indigenous peoples pose for settler colonial states. The chapter argues that criminology needs to be reconfigured to overcome its historical roots, its epistemological blind spots and its politically compromised positions.
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See Cunneen and Tauri (2016: 63–64) for a discussion of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the USA and the establishment of the first Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS) in Australia.
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In the USA see the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development (http://hpaied.org/) and the Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona (http://nni.arizona.edu/). In Australia see Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ‘Indigenous Community Governance’ (http://caepr.anu.edu.au/governance/index.php); University of Technology Sydney, ‘Nation Building Project’ (https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/jumbunna/our-research/projects/nation-building-project); University of Melbourne, ‘Indigenous Nation Building’ (http://government.unimelb.edu.au/research/research-theme-governance-and-performance/research-project-indigenous-nation-building).
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Cunneen, C. (2018). Indigenous Challenges for Southern Criminology. In: Carrington, K., Hogg, R., Scott, J., Sozzo, M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65021-0_2
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