University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
Yakama Rising
Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The Yakama Nation of present-day Washington State has responded to more than a century of historical trauma with a resurgence of grassroots activism and cultural revitalization. This pathbreaking ethnography shifts the conversation from one of victimhood to one of ongoing resistance and resilience...
Indigenous Peoples, National Parks, and Protected Areas
A New Paradigm Linking Conservation, Culture, and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
A vast number of national parks and protected areas throughout the world have been established in the customary territories of Indigenous peoples. In many cases these conservation areas have displaced Indigenous peoples, undermining their cultures, livelihoods, and self-governance, while squandering...
by Juan Felipe Herrera
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
“I wish I could find the words to tell you the story of our village after you were killed.” So begins Senegal Taxi, the new work by one of contemporary poetry’s most vibrant voices, Juan Felipe Herrera. Known for his activism and writings that bring attention to oppression and injustice, Herrera...
by Juan Felipe Herrera
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The highlands of Chiapas are smoldering with death.
In the winter of 1997, paramilitary agents ambushed and killed many Mayan villagers in Acteal, Chiapas. Gifted writer Juan Felipe Herrera has composed a stirring poem sequence—published in a bilingual format—written in response and homage...
by Rachel Corr
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Not every world culture that has battled colonization has suffered or died. In the Ecuadorian Andean parish of Salasaca, the indigenous culture has stayed true to itself and its surroundings for centuries while adapting to each new situation. Today, indigenous Salascans continue to devote a large...
Born of Resistance
Cara a Cara Encounters with Chicana/o Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This collection of essays interrogates the most contested social, political, and aesthetic concept in Chicana/o cultural studies—resistance.
If Chicana/o culture was born of resistance amid assimilation and nationalistic forces, how has it evolved into the twenty-first century? This groundbreaking...
Pushing Our Limits
Insights from Biosphere 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Pushing Our Limits is a fresh examination of Biosphere 2, the world’s first man-made mini-world, twenty-five years after its first closure experiment. Author Mark Nelson, one of the eight crew members locked in the enclosure during the 1991–1993 experiment, offers a compelling insider’s view...
River Dialogues
Hindu Faith and the Political Ecology of Dams on the Sacred Ganga
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
India’s sacred Ganga River is arguably one of the most iconic sites for worship, with a continuity of rituals for the living and the dead that span over two millennia. Along the river, from high in the Himalaya to the vast plains below, people gather daily to worship the Ganga through prayer and...
Immigration and the Law
Race, Citizenship, and Social Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In the era of globalization, shifting political landscapes, and transnational criminal organizations, discourse around immigration is reaching unprecedented levels. Immigration and the Law is a timely and significant volume of essays that addresses the social, political, and economic contexts of migration...
Negotiating Tribal Water Rights
Fulfilling Promises in the Arid West
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Water conflicts plague every river in the West, with the thorniest dilemmas found in the many basins with Indian reservations and reserved water rights—rights usually senior to all others in over-appropriated rivers. Negotiations and litigation over tribal water rights shape the future of both Indian...
Tribal Water Rights
Essays in Contemporary Law, Policy, and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
The settlement of Indian water rights cases remains one of the thorniest legal issues in this country, particularly in the West. In a previous book, Negotiating Tribal Water Rights, Colby, Thorson, and Britton presented a general overview of the processes involved in settling such cases; this volume...
Mexico in Verse
A History of Music, Rhyme, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
The history of Mexico is spoken in the voice of ordinary people. In rhymed verse and mariachi song, in letters of romance and whispered words in the cantina, the heart and soul of a nation is revealed in all its intimacy and authenticity. Mexico in Verse, edited by Stephen Neufeld and Michael Matthews,...
Indigenous Agency in the Amazon
The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia, 1842–1932
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The largest group of indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon, the Mojos, has coexisted with non-Natives since the late 1600s, when they accepted Jesuit missionaries into their homeland, converted to Catholicism, and adapted their traditional lifestyle to the conventions of mission life. Nearly two...
Stand Up and Fight
Participatory Indigenismo, Populism, and Mobilization in Mexico, 1970–1984
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In 1975 a watershed moment captivated Mexico as indigenous peoples from across the country came together on the Island of Janitzio for the First National Congress of Indigenous Peoples. The congress was a federal government initiative intended to preempt an independent indigenous movement. But indigenous...