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Damaging Environments: Land, Settler Colonialism, and Security for Indigenous Peoples

Damaging Environments: Land, Settler Colonialism, and Security for Indigenous Peoples Damaging Environments Land, Settler Colonialism, and Security for Indigenous Peoples Wilfrid Greaves ABSTRACT: Th is article theorizes why Indigenous peoples’ security claims fail to be accepted by government authorities or incorporated into the security policies and practices of settler states. By engaging the concepts of securitization and ontological security, I explain how Indigenous peoples are unable to successfully “speak” security to the state. I argue that nondom inant societal groups are unable to gain authorita- tive acceptance for security issues that challenge the dominant national identity. In eff ect, indigeneity acts an inhibiting condition for successful securitization because, by identifying the state and dominant society as the source of their insecurity, Indigenous peoples’ security claims challenge the ontological security of settler societies. Given the incommensurability of Indigenous and settler claims to authority over land, and the ontological relationship to land that underpins Indigenous identities and worldviews, the inhibiting condition is especially relevant with respect to security claims based on damage to the natural environment. KEYWORDS: environmental change, Indigenous peoples, ontological security, security, securitization, settler colonialism Global Indigenous politics are increasingly defi ned around struggles against natural resource extraction occurring on Indigenous peoples’ territories without their consent, and resistance to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environment and Society Berghahn Books

Damaging Environments: Land, Settler Colonialism, and Security for Indigenous Peoples

Greaves, Wilfrid
Environment and Society , Volume 9 (1) – Sep 1, 2018
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2150-6779
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10.3167/ares.2018.090108
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Damaging Environments Land, Settler Colonialism, and Security for Indigenous Peoples Wilfrid Greaves ABSTRACT: Th is article theorizes why Indigenous peoples’ security claims fail to be accepted by government authorities or incorporated into the security policies and practices of settler states. By engaging the concepts of securitization and ontological security, I explain how Indigenous peoples are unable to successfully “speak” security to the state. I argue that nondom inant societal groups are unable to gain authorita- tive acceptance for security issues that challenge the dominant national identity. In eff ect, indigeneity acts an inhibiting condition for successful securitization because, by identifying the state and dominant society as the source of their insecurity, Indigenous peoples’ security claims challenge the ontological security of settler societies. Given the incommensurability of Indigenous and settler claims to authority over land, and the ontological relationship to land that underpins Indigenous identities and worldviews, the inhibiting condition is especially relevant with respect to security claims based on damage to the natural environment. KEYWORDS: environmental change, Indigenous peoples, ontological security, security, securitization, settler colonialism Global Indigenous politics are increasingly defi ned around struggles against natural resource extraction occurring on Indigenous peoples’ territories without their consent, and resistance to

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Environment and Society – Berghahn Books

Published: Sep 1, 2018

Keywords: environmental change;Indigenous peoples;ontological security;security;securitization;settler colonialism

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