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  1. Afghanistan Analysts Network
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  2. Bangladeshi Tribals Evicted For Tea Plantation Expansion
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A Bangladeshi company has been accused of using armed men to evict ethnic minority communities in order to expand a tea plantation in Sreemangal in northeastern Bangladesh.
  3. Discovery of mass graves highlights bloody scramble for Congo’s resources
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Last week, a team with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights together with personnel from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) discovered scores of mass graves in Kasai Province, a south central region of the Congo currently wracked by bloody conflict between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) and Kamuina Nsapu, a local tribal militia.
  4. The Global War on Tribes
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The point is not that all tribal peoples pose an egalitarian alternative to neoliberal capitalism. Some (such as Indigenous peoples) certainly do have strong egalitarian principles, but many other tribal peoples -- such as in the new conflict zones -- certainly do not (particularly toward women). The salient point is not that all tribal cultures are paradise, but that they are not capitalist, and neoliberal capitalism cannot stand anything other than Total Control.
  5. India's Indigenous Peoples organise to protect forests, waters and commons
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    India's neoliberal government is attempting the mass seizure of indigenous lands, commons and forests in order to hand them over for corporate exploitation with mines, dams and plantations. But tribal communities are rising up to resist the takeover, which is not only morally reprehensible but violates India's own laws and international human rights obligations.
  6. Karl Marx and the Iroquois
    An essay on Marx's Ethnological Notebooks

    Resource Type: Article
    Franklin Rosemont delves into Marx's Ethnological Notebooks and examines their significance and relevance towards today's communist movement.
  7. A Marxist History of the World part 21: Huns, Goths, and Romans
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Neil Faulkner charts the transformation of the Huns from tribal nomads into continent-straddling militarists.
  8. Racist of the year, Ian Khama: Not Botswana's finest
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    General Ian Khama, the President of Botswana, and his frequent outbursts against the Kalahari Bushmen are among the most horrifying instances of racism of recent times. His sentiments are extremely troubling.
  9. Save the Tiger, Keep the People
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    On the fate of India’s forest-dwelling peoples: and how many will be aware that so many of them are being illegally evicted as part of the drive to conserve flora and fauna? Despite having co-existed with tigers and other animals for centuries, many of India's tribal peoples are currently being persecuted in the name of conservation.
  10. Selling Modernity: How Global Greenwashing is Destroying Tribal People
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (APECO) in Casiguran, the Philippines, is a 12,923 hectare area currently being developed into a self-sufficient commercial hub and special economic zone.If completed, APECO will strip 3,000 small farms and indigenous Agta households of their land.
  11. The Socialist Register 1975
    Volume 12: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1975
  12. Uranium Corporation of India Limited: Wasting Away Tribal Lands
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Radiation and health experts across the world charge that toxic materials and radioactivity released by the mining and processing operations are causing widespread infertility, birth defects and cancers.
  13. Which Way Africa?
    The Search for a New Society

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    Davison sets out to analyze the social, economic, political motives, myths, ideas, and beliefs which ounderlie modern African nationalism.
  14. Who owns Papua New Guinea's Resources Boom?
    Where tribes own the land

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Tribal people in Papua New Guinea fight to retain control of their communal lands in the face of 'development'.
  15. World Minorities
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    An account "of the plight today and the problems of some of the world's oppressed minorities".

Experts on Tribal Society in the Sources Directory

  1. Asian Civilisations Museum
  2. Canadian Encyclopedia


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