Land Rights Now
Global Voices on Indigenous Peoples and Land Justice
Published on 25. September 2025
Book
Hardback
362 pages
978-1-009-52154-3 (ISBN)
Description
Land rights for Indigenous Peoples are a global phenomenon and have become an important part of the liberal democratic state. But despite the promise of restoring land rights to Indigenous Peoples, most land justice frameworks have preserved the status quo in what is a slow and arduous process. In this work, William Nikolakis draws from the diverse experiences of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and legal practitioners across the world to document both persistent barriers to 'Land Back' as well as opportunities to move forward for land justice. By bringing these voices together, Nikolakis seeks to share lessons from the land justice movement with the goal of advancing land rights for Indigenous Peoples across the world. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
675 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-52154-3 (9781009521543)
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09/2025
Cambridge University Press
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Person
For more than two-decades, William Nikolakis has worked with Indigenous Peoples to secure their rights to lands and resources. William is a professor at the University of British Columbia, where he was instrumental in developing the Bachelor of Indigenous Land Stewardship. He has published more than sixty peer-reviewed publications and four edited books. William is also a practicing lawyer in British Columbia and works closely with First Nations to revitalize the stewardship of their lands.
Content
1. 'Land back': indigenous peoples and land rights William Nikolakis; 2. The elusive promise of indigenous land rights in Paraguay: achievements, challenges and current trends Joel E. Correia, Rodrigo Villagra-Carron and Marcos Glauser; 3. Recognizing and reclaiming indigenous peoples' constitutional land rights in Brazil: challenges and opportunities Fernanda Frizzo Bragato and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum; 4. Indigenous peoples and territorial rights in Colombia: advances and challenges in the 'implementation gap' Omaira Bolanos Cardenas and Ricardo Camilo Nino Izquierdo; 5. Indigenous land rights in Chile: dispossession, misrecognition and litigation Alexandra Tomaselli; 6. Aboriginal land rights in Australia: neither national nor uniform Francis Markham and Heidi Norman; 7. Dispossession by treaty, dispossession by statute: indigenous title in Eastern and Western Canada Daniel Diamond and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii); 8. Maori land law in Aotearoa New Zealand: recognizing land as taonga tuku iho Carwyn Jones and Sandra Cortes Acosta; 9. Land rights of indigenous peoples in the democratic Republic of Congo: 'first come, last served' Lassana Kone; 10. San land rights in Botswana: a critical analysis Robert K. Hitchcock, Maria Sapignoli and Smith Moeti; 11. Rights to land among amazigh peoples in Morocco: the case of the high atlas Ahmed Bendellaa & d, Ugo D'Ambrosioa, Emily Carusoa, Gary Martina, Soufiane M'Soua, Mari Carmen Romerab and Pablo Dominguez; 12. Adivasis and land rights in India: dispossession and the 'implementation gap' Jagannath Ambagudia; 13. Legal privileges and the effective recognition of indigenous land rights: lessons from Malaysia Yogeswaran Subramaniam; 14. Indigenous peoples and electoral politics in Thailand and Cambodia: one strategy to secure land rights in contested spaces Ian G. Baird; 15. Conclusion: reclaiming land rights under the pressure of Nation States - Insights and future directions from Sapmi Oula-Antti Labba; Index.