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Anyone watching some of the recent testimony of the technology companies appearing before Australia's Senate Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media could be forgiven for thinking Australians and our public discourse are not ...

pt. 1. Indigenous identities, old and new.Indigenous voice /Anna Tsing --Tibetan indigeneity : translations, resemblances, and uptake /Emily T. Yeh --"Our struggle has just begun": experiences of belonging and Mapuche formations of self /Claudia Briones --pt. 2. Territory and questions of sovereignty.Indigeneity as relational identity : the construction of Australian land rights /Francesca Merlan --Choctaw tribal sovereignty at the turn of the 21st century /Valerie Lambert --Sovereignty's Betrayals /Michael F. Brown --pt. 3. Indigeneity beyond borders.Varieties of indigenous experience : diasporas, homelands, sovereignties /James Clifford --Diasporic media and Hmong/Miao formulations of nativeness and displacement /Louisa Schein --Bolivian indigeneity in Japan : folklorized music performance /Michelle Bigenho --pt. 4. The boundary politics of indigeneity.Indian indigeneities : Adivasi engagements with Hindu nationalism in India /Amita Baviskar --"Ever-diminishing circles": the paradoxes of belonging in Botswana /Francis B. Nyamnjoh --The native and the neoliberal down under : neoliberalism and "endangered authenticities"/Linda Tuhiwai Smith --pt. 5. Indigenous self-representation, non-indigenous collaborators and the politics of knowledge.Melting glaciers and emerging histories in the Saint Elias Mountains /Julie Cruikshank --The terrible nearness of distant places : making history at the national museum of the American Indian /Paul Chaat Smith --Indigeneity today /Mary Louise Pratt.

Costa Rica's Biodiversity Law of 1998 is perhaps the most comprehensive legislation implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity. It includes provisions to better protect the intellectual property rights of rural communities regarding uses they have developed for natural resources and plants and animals they have bred. This article addresses how groups representing these peoples—the National Indigenous Board and National Peasant Board—obtained these provisions despite opposition from traditionally more powerful scientific and business communities. Data were collected on the formulation of the Biodiversity Law through qualitative techniques, including intensive interviews and archival research. It was found that fortuitous political conditions, or political opportunity structures, were crucial to the success of organizations representing rural communities. These supports included better-resourced allies, favorable international legal obligations and public opinion, and existing law that could be built on. Indicating broader patterns, it also was found that such political conditions have been salient during indigenous and peasant political activism elsewhere in Latin America and during formulation of similar biodiversity policy in developing countries.

The article provides an overview of recent initiatives spearheaded
by indigenous peoples in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) that
seek to improve the existing language policy put forth by the state
government. Although there has been some research conducted on
the activities of public organizations and associations of indigenous
peoples in the region, more must be done to better understand activities
specifically related to language policy. The article presents a history
of indigenous and minority organizing in the republic since the
end of the Soviet era, with special attention paid to the campaigns
regarding the status of native language and its presence within the
educational sphere. It then analyzes the results of a 2011 sociological
study regarding people's beliefs about responsibility for native
language maintenance and revitalization.

Introduction / Tarquam McKenna, Donna Moodie and Pat Onesta -- Articulating 'country' in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land management : the story of one Australian post-graduate course / Sue Nunn -- Indigenous knowledges and global knowledge systems : co-actioning thresholds in Australian science curricula and initial teacher education / Gabrielle Fletcher and Kate Chealuck -- Passing time / Kelly Menzel -- Where the rivers meet / Jodie Satour, Naomi Nirupa David, Rosemarie Garner and Gracie Scala Adamson -- Thought ritual : an Indigenous data analysis method for research / Tyson Yunkaporta and Donna Moodie -- The value of an integrated relational and culturally responsive pedagogy in teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teacher education students / Lisa Bell and Kate Chealuck -- A meeting of freshwater and saltwater : opening the dialogue of Aboriginal concepts of culture within an academic space / Kelly Menzel and Liz Cameron -- Critical social work from Indigenous perspectives / William Abur -- Conclusion / Tarquam McKenna.

Call centres have attracted the attention of researchers globally due to their implementation of new forms of work organisation and the implications these represent for the workforce. While there has been a great deal written on the poor working conditions within the call centre industry, and some discussion on the impact of these conditions on the health and safety of workers, there is still little known about the occupation health and well being policies and practices used in these workplaces. There has also been scant research on the health and safety experiences of call centre workers. This paper aims to address these gaps by examining whether the tasks performed and the occupational health and well being policies and practices in call centres lead to unhealthy outcomes for workers. A case study methodology is applied to explore these questions in two Australian call centres which highlight the diversity that exists in the industry. Key findings based on interviews with case study participants and key stakeholders indicate a misalignment between policy and practice, which represent various immediate and ongoing risks for employees. A number of policy concerns are raised through the data, particularly where negative occupational health outcomes can be associated with the lack of organisational compliance with employment legislation.