Plastic settler colonialism: Max Liboiron, Riley Cotter, ‘Review of participation of Indigenous Peoples in plastics pollution governance’, Cambridge Prisms Plastics, 2023 | settler colonial studies blog

Plastic settler colonialism: Max Liboiron, Riley Cotter, ‘Review of participation of Indigenous Peoples in plastics pollution governance’, Cambridge Prisms Plastics, 2023

05Aug23

Abstract: There are increasing calls for Indigenous participation in plastic pollution governance as part of a larger trend in Indigenous-led environmental management. Yet what counts as “participation” is so varied that sometimes models of participation are antithetical to one another, such as inclusion that becomes tokenistic, or when stakeholders and rightsholders are conflated. Here, we start by reviewing the state of how Indigenous participation is currently articulated and enacted in published peer reviewed and grey literature. This helps identify some of the common gaps between discourses of participation and their practice within writing projects themselves. Then, we turn to the different models, goals, and characteristics of participation in plastics pollution governance that are most meaningful to Indigenous peoples. The text is for primarily non19 Indigenous or mixed groups who are looking to be more specific, deliberate, and just in their inclusion of Indigenous peoples in plastic pollution research, initiatives, and governance. We’ve designed what we hope is a fundamentally useful document so readers can be aware of the diversity, divisiveness, and opportunities of different modes of participation.

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