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Settler colonialism and the climate crisis: David Osborn, ‘Toward earthbound climate movements: The importance of understanding ontology and settler colonialism in engaging the climate crisis’, in Kristin Haltinner, Dilshani Sarathchandra (eds), Resolving the Climate Crisis: US Social Scientists Speak Out, Routledge, 2024 »

Indigenous resilience is an easy cope: Aiyana James, Laura Laumatia, ‘Dismantling the settler paradigm in Indigenous climate resilience’, in Kristin Haltinner, Dilshani Sarathchandra (eds), Resolving the Climate Crisis: US Social Scientists Speak Out, Routledge, 2024

13May24

Abstract: Indigenous climate scholars have called on environmental activists to recognize that climate change is not the first environmental disaster to impact tribal communities, but an extension of centuries of land dispossession that has disrupted tribal lifeways. These actions have been based in the dominant ideology of settler colonialism, which justifies the taking of tribal lands and resources for consumptive purposes, even as it erases or ignores tribal rights. Settler colonialism has been used to justify natural resource extraction that has significantly damaged tribal food systems, ceremonies, and land relationship, but it can also be seen in actions that co-opt tribal knowledge systems. In this chapter, two climate professionals, one Indigenous and one White settler, posit that it is incumbent on would-be tribal allies in climate activism to recognize both tribal histories and context for effective climate action, and to recognize how contemporary environmental calls for action must be wary of settler replacement of tribal voices with their own agenda.


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