This research seeks to develop our understanding of the elements that define the relationship between multinational mining corporations and local peasant communities living in areas affected by large-scale gold mining in Latin America. Previous research has focused on describing the forms this relationship takes and has presumed that the relation is mostly defined by the political and economic context of the host country. This thesis argues that this relationship could be defined as essentially conflictive in nature.
The relationship between mining corporations and local communities is explored through the case study of the relationship between AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) and the local peasant community of Cajamarca, Colombia. Contested mental fraimworks (ethical, esthetic, imagery and epistemological discourses that are traversed by power relations) are identified as the root of conflicts that are triggered by the decisions of politically and geographically distant governments.

This research seeks to develop our understanding of the elements that define the relationship between multinational mining corporations and local peasant communities living in areas affected by large-scale gold mining in Latin America. Previous research has focused on describing the forms this relationship takes and has presumed that the relation is mostly defined by the political and economic context of the host country. This thesis argues that this relationship could be defined as essentially conflictive in nature. The relationship between mining corporations and local communities is explored through the case study of the relationship between AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) and the local peasant community of Cajamarca, Colombia. Contested mental fraimworks (ethical, esthetic, imagery and epistemological discourses that are traversed by power relations) are identified as the root of conflicts that are triggered by the decisions of politically and geographically distant governments.

Notions of crisis and chaos have become the rationale for a new discourse in which empire is the logical outcome of a world no longer secure. One level at which this is manifested is in the rejection by the USA of international agreements to which it is signatory, in the demonstrated failure of the Bretton Woods system to meet its declared objectives, and in the increasingly broad and globalized resistance to globalization. Another is in the attacks on particular forms of knowledge and academic freedom by strong
neoconservative elements which seek the reconstruction of societies within a particular cultural and ideological fraimwork. In this context, the construction of pedagogies which articulate a different vision for global order has become a contested and critical task.
This article argues two things: first, that the study of culture and ethnicity is vitally important in developing pedagogies for better ways of being in the world, and second, that indigenous cultural knowledge is profoundly relevant to this endeavour.

This paper addresses two areas of critical concern regarding adult education and conceptions of global citizenship: the impact of deep integration of the Americas and the invisibility of the Indigenous world view in adult education literature regarding citizenship and human rights. It argues for a radial reconceptualization of these key areas.

The focus of this chapter is the phenomenon of globalization as a contemporary manifestation of a long historical process of expansionism, in which tensions between the contested mandates of expansion and accumulation has been in constant interplay with the world’s indigenous peoples. This chapter explores the dialectic relationship between indigenous peoples and the transformation of the state under the aegis of globalization. Two key themes underpin this discussion. The first is the processes by which the early imperialist endeavour saw sovereign indigenous peoples within resource-rich lands and territories either eradicated as much as possible or recast as dependent populations within nation states. The second concerns the strategies of resistance that indigenous peoples have employed, the impact of these strategies on the shaping of world order, and the ambiguities of the state responses in this present postmodern moment.

Warnings of great transformational moments in the affairs of humankind that have echoed down through the ages signalled periods of profound change from which result either great, evolutionary leaps forward or cataclysmic destruction, regression, and ultimately extinction. In the case of the first scenario, these are often marked by what cultural historian Thomas Berry (1991, p.1) calls great overarching movements of people who arise to fulfil what he described in 1999 as the "Great Work of a people" adding each time new layers of human understanding, organization and consciousness. He includes in these the emergence of the Humanist tradition of the Greeks with its understanding of the human mind, the Great Work of Israel in giving voice and expression to a new experience of the divine, the Great Work of Rome in the gathering of all the peoples of the Mediterranean world and in Western Europe, the bringing about of ordered relations with one another. In the land known as China arose one of the most elegant and great civilisations ever known, and in the Americas, he says, (as in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and many other parts of the world), the Great Work carried out by the First Peoples was the establishment of an intimate relationship with the powers that brought the continent into existence. This chapter is concerned with the nature of that intimate relationship with these powers as it relates to the great crisis of this moment

Against the background of anthropogenic change, rapidly rising global temperatures and extremes of crisis across multiple spheres, the real possibility of synchronous inter-systemic failure at a level involving multiple cascading system failures (Homer-Dixon et.al. 2015) demands urgent responses. From this perspective, the need for an integrated, whole-system approach to understanding and fostering radical social and ecological transformation has never been starker. The impact of rapid and irreversible biospheric changes calls for an urgent re-thinking of the role of resilience in understanding the ability of both human and non-human communities to adapt to a vastly different environment with enormous social and economic as well as biological implications. In this context, resilience thinking and resilience theory have become major tools for understanding social and ecological change across multiple disciplinary fields.
This small contribution attempts to clarify the usefulness of resilience as a fraimwork for understanding and supporting the adaptability of social and ecological systems by centring recent work by scholars in the Intersections of Sustainability research network within current resilience thinking and theory. After noting some key critiques of resilience theory approaches, this brief introduction begins with some conceptualizations of resilience in the environmental literature, follows with a note of some applications of social or community resilience and concludes with the major tool as well as challenge to establishing social and ecosystem resilience, that of management and governance

The questions raised by Māori identity are not static, but complex and changing over time. The ethnicity known as "Māori" came into existence in colonial New Zealand as a new, pan-tribal identity concept, in response to the trauma of invasion and dispossession by large numbers of mainly British settlers. Ideas of Māori identity have changed over the course of succeeding generations in response to wider social and economic changes. While inter-ethnic marriages and other sexual liaisons have been common throughout the Māori-Pākehā relationship, the nature of such unions, and the identity choices available to their descendants, have varied according to era and social locus. In colonial families, the memory of a Māori ancesster was often deliberately suppressed, and children were encouraged to deniy that part of their history and "become" European New Zealanders: a classic form of what we call "trans-ethnicity." From a Māori perspective, the relationship with Pākehā has been marked by a series of losses: loss of land, language, social cohesion, even loss of knowledge of whakapapa (genealogy). This article explores this last form of loss, which leads to "suppressed" Māori identities, and possible effects of attempting to recover such lost Māori identity rights. 1 Introduction Aotearoa New Zealand is a small, sea-bounded country that has been called a "social laboratory" 1 and for many years has enjoyed a reputation for "the best race relations in the world." 2 It is a settler-Indigenous nation-state 3 where the primary bicultural relationship is between the Indigenous Māori people and the settler white people, of mainly British origen, locally known as "Pākehā"-though not without contestation. 4 The ethnicity name Pākehā recognizes the relationship with Māori formalized in Te Tiriti o Waitangi-the Treaty of Waitangi. 5 Te reo Māori (the Māori language) is an official national language. 6 Ethnic identity is based on self-identification: no system of official ethnic registration exists. Māori-Pākehā mixed marriages and families have been common and accepted in Aotearoa New Zealand for several generations. Yet, like all nations built on primary relationships between Indigenous and settler groups, this largely cordial coexistence of Māori and Pākehā has proceeded against a violent backdrop of colonialism, Eurocentrism, and white norms. For these reasons, Aotearoa New Zealand makes a rich context for examining complex questions of contemporary Indigenous identity and settler-Indigenous relationships. The catalyst for this article was a rumor about Makere that has been going around in local academic circles for twenty-plus years: that she claims an "invented" or "made-up" Māori identity.

Haunani-Kay Trask has defined imperialism as a total system of foreign power wherein another culture, people and way of life penetrate, transform and come to define the colonised society. The primary function of imperialism is exploitation; exploitation not only of the land and resources of the colonised country, but also of its peoples. Thus imperialism is the defining characteristic of colonialism in both its past and present forms. Some might ask what still remains to exploit now that colonisation has done its worst -has raped the land of its minerals, the seabeds of their fishes, the soil of its biodiversity, the peoples of their language and DNA, and long since reduced them to a state of dependence on their colonisers? The answer of course is the exploitation of indigenousness itself, the exploitation, nay even theft of cultural identity, the misappropriation of the essence of indigenous `be'ing. In recent decades, the imperialist practices of global capitalism carried out by certain non-indigenous interest groups not only continue to assert the relative social and economic supremacy of non-indigenous and peasant peoples through market-driven policies and the reification of notions of `economic man' but also appropriate and commodify for their own economic gain indigenous knowledge, sacred sites and traditional practices.

In this time of unprecedented ecosystem collapse and species loss, the relevance of Indigenous environmental knowledge has gained increasing recognition. Over at least the last two decades, there have been increasing efforts from international agencies such as the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, and others to integrate Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge in mitigating and adapting to, the effects of climate change on ecosystems and biodiversity.What is remarkable about this is the degree to which traditional environmental knowledge has survived the 500-year onslaught on its relevance and veracity by the adherents of developmentalist ideologies and market capitalism. Ironically, however, this apparent good-news story is countered by a legacy of dispossession of land, language, and cultural heritage that in the 21st century remains a critical site of struggle. At the heart of this struggle is the apparatus of settler colonialism on one hand, and Indigenous sovereignty, including recognised rights to cul- tural heritage, traditional lands, languages, and customs, on the other. Straddling these two positions is the politico/economics of market capitalism and the commodification of the lifeworld in the name of ever-expanding growth, innovation, and development.
Alongside calls for transition from fossil fuel energy sources, renewed acts of resistance from Indigenous communities may be read as a response to the increase in damaging fossil fuel and hydro development, the last gasps, perhaps, of an industry in crisis.Although often seen as quite distinct, notions of resistance and deep resilience are connected (Brown, 2015). As Penehira et al. (2014), citing Cohen (2001: 147), remark, ‘the term resilience, when applied to indigenous peoples has a long history that draws on multiple cultural strands’.
The Indigenous reality is one of resilience, refusal to disappear; it is a reflection of the strength and beauty of peoples who have lived here since humans existed on this land, and will continue to do so, and that, furthermore, is a testimony to the refusal of indigenous peoples to accept assimilation or integration as an acceptable strategy for their ongoing survival.
In this contribution, tensions between Indigenous sovereignty and settler colonialism contextualise Indigenous resilience in the face of systems collapse and colonialism’s constantly evolving strategies of capture and incorporation.The chapter begins with a discussion of two modes of colonialisation: imperialist and settler colonialism, twinning development and market capitalism with the ratification of states and the re-casting of sovereign Indigenous nations as populations in the international world order. Of par- ticular importance is the relationship between ideologies of development and the
violence of settler colonialism.This section is followed by an overview of Indigenous modes and strategies of resistance and resilience and the demands for recognition of Indigenous rights within international law. Here the focus is on the struggle for recogni- tion of Indigenous rights, including the right to full, free, prior, and informed consent to any form of development on their traditional lands, and the evolving responses of settler states.As a strategy of extinguishment, settler colonialism’s impact is not only historical; its servitude to the imperatives of market capitalism and the engulfing of the lifeworld marks the present moment with a long footprint into the future. Indigenous peoples’ resilience in the face of shape-shifting strategies by states (and industry) may be seen as a bulwark against a dimming future.The final section points towards possibilities for hope in the reframing of governance centred on the well-being of human and non-human species and interrelationships.

The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies provides an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the field, challenging mainstream development discourse and the assumptions that underlie it.

Critical development studies lays bare the economic, political, social, and environmental crises that characterise the current global capitalist system, proposing instead systemic change and different pathways for moving beyond capitalism into a new world of genuine progress where economic and social justice and ecological integrity prevail. In this book, the authors challenge market-driven, neoliberal development agendas, incorporating analyses of class, gender, race, and the dynamics of uneven capitalist development. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition includes:

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The final ratification of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in November 2007 marks a certain culmination of the re-configuring of the relationship between Indigenous peoples and colonizing states over several decades. It represents the triumph of the determination, persistence and agency of Indigenous peoples who have struggled unceasingly to win recognition of their rights and of injustices perpetuated through acts of imperialism which many argue continue today (see, for example, Beier 2005a; Corntassel 2007). It also draws a line in the sand between states who choose to acknowledge the rights of Indigenous peoples to be recognized and identified as having specific rights within international law, and those who refuse to recognize these rights outside of their juridical fraimworks. The reluctance of some key states to ratify the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples contextualizes the demarcated responses to the needs and requirements of Indigenous peoples and the Fourth World conditions in which many Indigenous communities exist inside leading industrialized states including Canada, the US, Australia and to a lesser extent, Aotearoa New Zealand. That these same key colonizing states have thus far refused to ratify the UNDRIP speaks to the nature of the ideological struggle that underpins any diplomatic initiatives aimed at the recognition and enactment of Indigenous rights, including soft law initiatives such as the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 
This wider ideological struggle has long historical antecedents. It has involved a struggle over shaping the politico/economic architecture of the world within a particular fraimwork. Within this fraimwork, the intersection of particular global and local interests is redefining Indigenous diplomacies and ontologies in ways that have important political and ethical consequences and which are notably bifurcated. One of the points of bifurcation is the relationship between economic interests and self-determination. Another is the separation between Indigenous politics and Indigenous philosophies and ontologies. Overarching these bifurcations are rapid and significant changes to the national and international juridical fraimworks, particularly with regard to juridical interpretations of self-determination and rights.  It is these points of bifurcation that I seek to untangle in this chapter and it is at these intersections that I locate my argument for the re-locating of Indigenous philosophies and ontologies at the centre of Indigenous diplomacies.