Indigenous Studies engages with Indigenous knowledges across place-based, regional, and global dimensions. The discipline has paved the way for Indigenous scholars and studies of lived experiences, long-term histories, and future aspirations from Indigenous perspectives. It also works to enhance dialogues between multiple actors from academia, civil society, and beyond.
Our work is carried out in close collaboration with Indigenous societies and communities, which despite differences often share similar experiences of colonisation and long-standing relational entanglements with the land. Many Indigenous peoples inhabit regions where lands are rich in diversity, constituted through active stewardship and long-time contributions. Indigenous knowledges are materialised in relational land uses, as well as livelihoods, arts, and languages. Indigenous languages comprise a majority of all languages in the world, yet they are also the most endangered of all languages. These knowledges constructed throughout generations are of particular importance when discussing socioeconomic changes in distinct regions, such as where we work in the Arctic and Amazon.
The Global Indigenous studies programme started in 2015 at the