Foreword by Maggie Walter

1 Global Indigenous futures: a new research agenda – Madi Day, Tristan Kennedy and Bronwyn Carlson

2 Global perspectives on Indigeneity: Indigenous perspectives on global Indigeneity – Bronwyn Carlson

3 Translocal Indigenous communities: global Indigeneity and networks of political activism – Tristan Kennedy

4 Connecting back home: globalising conversations on Indigenous LGBTIQ+ peoples, migration and social media – Andrew Farrell

5 Oceanic intimacies: Ngurra, Tupuna and Wairua relationality – Lou Netana-Glover

6 ‘Whanau: an interconnected world’: re-examining Maori and Pasifika connections – Innez Haua and Dion Enari

7 Erasure, resilience, continuity: narratives of Sámi migration and contemporary culture in the USA – Ellen Marie Jensen and Tim Frandy

8 Weaving Indigenous relationalities for the Anthropocene: activating ground-up networks across Ngurras (Countries) – Jo Anne Rey

9 Social media and global networks of Indigeneity – Bronwyn Carlson

10 Indigiqueer futures: a conversation between Indigenous non-binary academics – Percy Lezard, Madi Day and Sandy O’Sullivan

11 Bio-power, the governmentality of killing and Indigenous people’s resistance: imposition of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, extra-judicial execution and Indigenous women’s resistance in Manipur, northeast India – Binalakshmi Nepram

12 Queer multi-racial sovereign networks: conceptualising Indigenous and Asian multi-racial identities for understanding the world and futures – Souksavanh T. Keovorabouth

13 Transnational Indigenous feminisms: four narratives for global Indigeneity – Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Bronwyn Carlson, Coro J-A Juanena, waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy and Alex Wilson

Index

Global networks of Indigeneity assembles collective visions of Indigenous futures, contemplations of the potential of digital technologies, and considerations of Indigenous intimacies, relationalities and manners in which we locate ourselves in an increasingly global and connected world.

Global Indigeneity is a term that characterises a shared recognition of sovereignty among Indigenous peoples. This edited volume brings together a range of Indigenous perspectives, uniting a global network of writers, thinkers and scholars to discuss connected Indigenous futures.

This kind of transnational solidarity results in collective activism and envisioning, or a joint investment in futures free of the tyrannies imposed by settler-colonialism. We recognise each other’s resilience and ongoing connections to place through ancestry. This edited volume proposes that Indigenous networks of relationality are growing due to an avid uptake of digital technologies and social media. These global networks of Indigeneity do not undermine local identities and relationships – they fortify them. Relationships and connections, strengthened by global networks and digital technologies, enable us to respond en masse to the different but comparative colonial systems that harm Indigenous peoples all over the world. Together, we present possibilities and the practicalities required to bring them to fruition.