Theorizing Native Studies

Reviews / Votes

"Theory might be read as ever-present according to this collection, but practice is clearly important too-Native practice in Native ways; Native activism, projects, scholarship. ... In effect, the book allows theory and practice to lean against each other as steadfast partners in the Native matters that make Native studies important beyond the academy, double-underlining the Native-ness on which its chapters are grounded." - Aroha Harris (Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History) "Given that academics continue to debate the efficacy of theory, Theorizing Native Studies supplies a necessary contribution to the field.... The editors have achieved their goal of compiling a collection that serves as an important contribution to theoretical studies in general, and Native Studies in particular." - Monica L. Butler (Journal of Anthropological Research) "Although each individual essay offers an important intervention on its own terms, as a collection, the volume is a vibrant snapshot of the field while also gesturing toward new horizons of theoretical possibility." - Hokulani K. Aikau (Western Historical Quarterly) "The collected essays provide a helpful overview of the work of a new generation of activist Native academics and artists, many of them participants both in local community or transnational organizing and the Critical Ethnic Studies Association founded in 2011. ... [A] groundbreaking contribution to the burgeoning writing in theorized politics and Native Studies activist scholarship that will have broad ramifications across many fields and movements for many years to come." - Joe Parker (Women's Studies) "This book should be required reading for all students contemplating advanced scholarship in the field of Indigenous studies. It is a much needed corrective to decades of misplaced hostility directed towards theory in general, and Indigenous theory in particular. I recommend it highly." - Heather Devine (Canadian Journal of Native Studies)