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Jennifer Hays

  • Velina Ninkova, Jennifer Lynn Hays, Noa Lavi, Aishah Ali, Silvia Lopes da Silva Macedo, Helen Elizabeth Davis et al.:
    Hunter-Gatherer Children at School: A View From the Global South
    Review of Educational Research 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Irene Bellier, Jennifer Hays :
    Indigenous peoples rights: global circulation, colonial heritage, and resistance
    Routledge 2020 DOI
  • Jennifer Hays :
    Defining the terms of indigenous peoples' rights in Namibia: the role of the International Labor Organization
    Routledge 2020 DOI
  • Jennifer Hays, Robert Hitchcock :
    Land and Resource Rights in the Tsumkwe Conservancies - Nyae Nyae and N≠a Jaqna
    2020
  • Jennifer Hays, Jakob Kronik :
    The ILO PRO169 programme: Learning from technical cooperation in Latin America and Southern Africa
    International Journal of Human Rights 2019 DOI
  • Jennifer Hays :
    Définir les termes des droits des peuples autochtones: I'Organisation internationale du travel en Namibie
    L'Harmattan 2019
  • Jennifer Hays :
    Interpretations of San Ethnicity and Identity in Namibia: Two Ethnographic Accounts
    Journal of Southern African Studies 2019 DOI
  • Irene Bellier, Jennifer Hays :
    Les Droits des peuples autochtones: circulations globales, heritages coloniaux, resistances
    L'Harmattan 2019
  • Jennifer Hays, Velina Ninkova, Edmond Dounias :
    Hunter-gatherers and education: Towards a recognition of extreme local diversity and common global challenges
    Hunter-Gatherer Research 2019 DOI
  • Jennifer Hays, Velina Ninkova :
    Vertical and Horizontal Mobility among the Ju|’hoansi of Namibia
    Peter Lang Publishing Group 2018
  • Velina Ninkova, Jennifer Hays :
    "Walking in your grandfather's footsteps": Kinship and knowledge transmission among the Ju/'hoansi (Namibia)
    AnthropoChildren 2017
  • Jennifer Hays :
    À qui appartient l'éducation ? Les Écoles de village et les Ju|’hoansi de Nyae Nyae, Namibie
    Les Cahiers de la recherche sur l'éducation et les savoirs 2016 FULLTEKST
  • Jennifer Hays, Irene Bellier :
    Éducation, apprentissage et droits des peuples autochtones. Quels savoirs, quelles compétences et quelles langues transmettre pour un mode de vie durable ?
    L'Harmattan 2016
  • Jennifer Hays :
    Who owns education? Schooling, learning and livelihood for the Nyae Nyae Ju|’hoansi
    Journal of Namibian Studies: History Politics Culture 2016 FULLTEKST / ARKIV
  • Jakob Kronik, Jennifer Hays :
    Limited Room for Manoeuvre: Indigenous peoples and climate change adaptation strategies
    Routledge 2015
  • Jennifer Hays :
    Educational rights for indigenous communities in Botswana and Namibia
    International Journal of Human Rights 2011 DOI
  • Jennifer Hays, Megan Biesele :
    Indigenous rights in southern Africa: international mechanisms and local contexts
    International Journal of Human Rights 2011 DOI
  • Jennifer Hays :
    Introduction to the Special Issue: Indigenous Education in Southern Africa. Research and Action
    Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education 2011 DOI
  • Jennifer Hays, Cwisa Cwi :
    The Nyae Nyae Village Schools 1994-2010: An Indigenous Mother-Tongue Education Project After 15 Years
    Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education 2011 DOI
  • Jennifer Lynn Hays :
    Steps Forward and New Challenges: Indigenous Communities and Mother Tongue Education in Southern Africa
    International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 2009 DOI
  • Jennifer Hays :
    The Other Side of ‘All’: Comparing Global Discourses of Education with a Community’s Choices – the case of the Nyae Nyae Ju|’hoansi in Namibia
    Michigan State University Press 2009
  • Jennifer Hays :
    Learning Indigenous Knowledge Systems
    HSRC Press 2009
  • Rodney K Hopson, Jennifer Lynn Hays :
    Schooling and education for the San in Namibia: Between a rock of colonialism and the hard place of globalization
    Elsevier 2008
  • Jennifer Lynn Hays, Amanda Siegrühn-Mars :
    Education and the San of Southern Africa
    Indigenous Affairs 2005
  • Jennifer Lynn Hays :
    Indigenous Rights in Education: The San of Southern Africa in Local and Global Contexts
    2004
  • Jennifer Lynn Hays :
    Anguished Laments”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Education, Representation, and Development for the San of Botswana
    Ufahamu 2002
  • Jennifer Lynn Hays :
    “We Should Learn as We Go Ahead”: Finding the Way Forward for the Nyae Nyae Village Schools Project
    Perspectives in Education 2002
  • Irene Bellier, Jennifer Hays :
    Scales of Governance and Indigenous Peoples
    Routledge 2020
  • Jennifer Hays, Irene Bellier :
    Echelles de Gouvernance et Droits des Peuples Autochtones
    L'Harmattan 2019
  • Jennifer Hays :
    Owners of Learning: The Nyae Nyae Village Schools Over Twenty Five Years
    Basler Afrika Bibliographien 2016
  • Jennifer Hays, Irene Bellier :
    Quelle éducation pour les peuples autochtones ?
    L'Harmattan 2016
  • Velina Ninkova, Jennifer Hays, Noa Lavi, Aishah Ali, Silvia Lopes da Silva Macedo, Helen Davis et al.:
    Hunter-gatherer children at school: A view from the Global South
    PsyArXiv 2022 DOI
  • Jennifer Hays, Velina Ninkova, Edmond Dounias :
    Hunter-gatherer education Special issue: Introduction
    Hunter-Gatherer Research 2019 DOI
  • Jennifer Hays, Velina Ninkova, Edmond Dounias :
    Hunter-Gatherer Education Special Issue
    Hunter-Gatherer Research 2019
  • Jennifer Hays :
    Hunter-gatherer scale and global approaches to human rights
    2018
  • Jennifer Hays, Velina Ninkova, Sidsel Saugestad :
    The Research and Advocacy Group for Hunter Gatherer Education
    AnthropoChildren 2018 DOI
  • Jennifer Hays :
    Ingjerd Hoëm: Languages of Governance in Conflict. Negotiating Democracy in Tokelau
    Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift 2017
  • Jennifer Hays, Velina Ninkova :
    Social, Economic and Geographic mobility among the Ju/’hoansi of Namibia
    2016
  • Jennifer Hays, Irene Bellier, Torjer Andreas Olsen :
    Education, Learning and Indigenous Rights : What knowledge(s), skills and languages for sustainable livelihoods?
    Forum for development cooperation with indigenous peoples - website 2014
  • Jennifer Hays :
    Recognizing indigenous tracking skills in Namibia: potential benefits, implications, and challenges
    2009
  • Jennifer Hays :
    The Invasion of Nyae Nyae: A case of ongoing aggression against indigenous peoples in Namibia
    2009
  • Jennifer Lynn Hays, Cwisa Cwi :
    The Nyae Nyae Village Schools: 15 Years of Mother Tongue Education for an Indigenous Community
    2008
  • Jennifer Lynn Hays :
    The Other Side of ‘All.’ Comparing global discourses of education with a community's strategic choices: The case of the Nyae Nyae Ju/'hoansi in Namibia
    2008
  • Jennifer Lynn Hays :
    Examining Educational Rights for Indigenous Communities in Southern Africa
    2008
  • Jennifer Lynn Hays :
    Education, Rights and Survival for the Nyae Nyae Ju|’hoansi: Illuminating Global and Local Discourses
    2007
  • Jennifer Lynn Hays :
    Learning indigenous knowledge systems
    2007
  • Jennifer Lynn Hays :
    For the Benefit of All: Mother Tongue Education For Southern African Minorities. A comprehensive summary report from the Regional Mother Tongue Conference, a conference on multilingualism in Southern African Education, 1-2 June 2005
    2006
  • Jennifer Lynn Hays :
    Steps Forward and New Challenges: Mother Tongue Education in Southern Africa
    2006
  • Jennifer Lynn Hays :
    Rethinking ‘Education for All’: Matching Global Rhetoric with Local Reality
    2003
  • Jennifer Lynn Hays :
    From Human Rights to the Right to Read and Write: Education and the Nyae Nyae Ju/’hoansi of Namibia
    2002

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    Research interests

    My work focuses upon the anthropological aspects of the implementation of international human rights standards - especially indigenous peoples rights - for the most marginalized populations, and how these take shape at global, national and local levels. I have been working with hunter-gatherer populations in southern Africa (the San) since 1998, with a particular focus on how they approach issues of education and land rights, and the intersection between these issues.  I also link the question of Indigenous Rights to land, knowledge, and culture with global concerns including climate change, biodiversity, and food security. 

    Current and Recent projects:

    Community Asset Mapping Study - Tsumkwe District, Namibia (2024 - ongoing). Funded by the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF)

    FAO Indigenous Food Profile - Nyae Nyae Conservancy, Namibia (2024). Funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) International Office (Rome)

    Hunter-Gatherer Education in a Changing World (2023-2024).  Applied Working Group funded by the Cultural Evolution Society Transformation Fund https://ces-transformationfund.org/our-projects/hunter-gatherer-education-awg/

    Networks: 

    Research and Advocacy Group on Hunter Gatherer Education (HG-EDU):  https://www.hg-edu.org/

    Réseau de Recherche et de Connaissances Relatives aux Peuples Autochtones https://reseaudialog.ca/

    Justice and Indigenous Peoples (JUSTIP) https://justip.hypotheses.org/jennifer-hays

     

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