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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2025

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William Nikolakis
William Nikolakis
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Land Rights Now
Global Voices on Indigenous Peoples and Land Justice
 , pp. v - vi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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Contents

  1. Acknowledgments

  2. List of Contributors

  3. Foreword

    Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  4. 1.“Land Back”: Indigenous Peoples and Land Rights

    William Nikolakis

  5. Part ILatin America

    1. 2.The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Land Rights in Paraguay: Achievements, Challenges, and Current Trends

      Joel E. Correia, Rodrigo Villagra-Carron, and Marcos Glauser

    2. 3.Recognizing and Reclaiming Indigenous Peoples’ Constitutional Land Rights in Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities

      Fernanda Frizzo Bragato and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum

    3. 4.Indigenous Peoples and Territorial Rights in Colombia: Advances and Challenges in the “Implementation Gap”

      Omaira Bolaños Cárdenas and Ricardo Camilo Niño Izquierdo

    4. 5.Indigenous Land Rights in Chile: Dispossession, Misrecognition, and Litigation

      Alexandra Tomaselli

  6. Part IIAustralia, Canada, and New Zealand

    1. 6.Aboriginal Land Rights in Australia: Neither National nor Uniform

      Francis Markham and Heidi Norman

    2. 7.Dispossession by Treaty, Dispossession by Statute: Indigenous Title in Eastern and Western Canada

      Daniel Diamond and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii)

    3. 8.Māori Land Law in Aotearoa New Zealand: Recognizing Land as tāonga tuku iho

      Carwyn Jones and Sandra Cortés Acosta

  7. Part IIIAfrica and Asia

    1. 9.Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Democratic Republic of Congo: “First Come, Last Served”

      Lassana Koné

    2. 10.San Land Rights in Botswana: A Critical Analysis

      Robert K. Hitchcock, Maria Sapignoli, and Smith Moeti

    3. 11.Rights to Land among Amazigh Peoples in Morocco: The Case of the High Atlas

      Ahmed Bendella, Ugo D’Ambrosio, Emily Caruso, Gary Martin, Soufiane M’Sou, Mari Carmen Romera, and Pablo Dominguez

    4. 12.Adivasis and Land Rights in India: Dispossession and the “Implementation Gap”

      Jagannath Ambagudia

    5. 13.Legal Privileges and the Effective Recognition of Indigenous Land Rights: Lessons from Malaysia

      Yogeswaran Subramaniam

    6. 14.Indigenous Peoples and Electoral Politics in Thailand and Cambodia: One Strategy to Secure Land Rights in Contested Spaces

      Ian G. Baird

    7. 15.Conclusion: Reclaiming Land Rights under the Pressure of Nation-States – Insights and Future Directions from Sápmi

      Oula-Antti Labba

  8. Index

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  • Book: Land Rights Now
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