Chapter 1 Introduction: The contours of a field of critical indigenous rights studies Giselle Corradi, Koen De Feyter, Ellen Desmet, and Katrijn Vanhees Part 1 - Changing identities and cultures Chapter 2 Indigeneity vs Development: Nubian rights mobilisation in Egypt Maja Janmyr Chapter 3 Politics of oneness and Twa's struggle for land: questioning identity discourses in Rwanda Katrijn Vanhees Chapter 4 The impact of migration processes on indigenous peoples' rights. Challenges for identity and culture Asier Martinez de Bringas Part 2 - Innovating the law Dealing with legal tensions in light of indigenous peoples' rights Chapter 5 A dual perspective on the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress Fons Coomans Chapter 6 Protecting traditional cultural expressions - copyright tensions and human rights opportunities? Kelly Breemen Creating space for counter-narratives within international law Chapter 7 Indigenous people involvement in the REDD+ global debate: Case study from the Amazon basin Liliana Lozano Chapter 8 The rights of Indigenous Peoples in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: A Third World Approaches to International Law assessment to advance their protection in the Inter-American Human Rights System Salvador Herencia Carrasco Designing new instruments Chapter 9 The 2005 Draft Nordic Sami Convention and the Implementation of the Right of the Sami People to Self-determination Dorothee Cambou Chapter 10 Legislation coordination and cooperation mechanisms between indigenous and ordinary jurisdictions: reflections on progress and setbacks in Ecuador Lieselotte Viaene and Guillermo Fernandez-Maldonado Index