Evolving Indigenous Nations and Communities: Sustainable Territories and Social Ecology in a Changing Geopolitical Context
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 3764
Special Issue Editors
2. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Horacio Urteaga 694, Jesús María, Lima, Peru
Interests: political ecology of rural and peri-urban landscapes and peoples
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is interested in interdisciplinary; cross-disciplinary; intercultural; multi-methods contributions (theoretical or empirical) that focus on issues at the intersection of environmental sustainability; society; Indigenous Peoples and First Nations; and policy. We are particularly interested in contributions that address indigenous science as a knowledge system akin to Western science; action; and experience related to sustainability (broadly conceived); and/or collaborative representations of modern indigenous issues. For example; changing geopolitical contexts are increasingly impacting indigenous politics; economies; and natural environments at an unprecedented rate. Growing pressures for land use change; effects of climate change; and other socio-environmental changes; such as new actors on the landscapes where indigenous communities or their territories reside; are shifting indigenous and sustainability realities drastically by introducing new threats and opportunities. Multilevel governance mechanisms are changing; increasingly pushing for (insufficient) funding localization; impacting indigenous decision-making; politics; economies and power dynamics. We welcome contributions that address current trends in the environmental management (broadly conceived) of indigenous territories; nations; and communities from all geographical areas where indigenous peoples live and work. We are especially interested in contributions from non-native English speaking countries and can offer authors advisory support on translation so as not to perpetuate Global South and indigenous intellectual exclusion from research spaces.
Published Papers: This special issue is now open for submission for: research articles (preferred), conceptual articles, review articles, and commentaries.
Dr. Aoife Bennett
Dr. Deborah Delgado Pugley
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- indigenous territories
- geopolitics
- external finance of indigenous economies
- nature protection
- recovery and restoration
- land and forest management practices
- new indigenous movements
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