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Introduction: Indigenous Resurgence, Decolonization, and Movements for Environmental Justice

Introduction: Indigenous Resurgence, Decolonization, and Movements for Environmental Justice Introduction Indigenous Resurgence, Decolonization, and Movements for Environmental Justice Jaskiran Dhillon ABSTRACT: Th is volume of Environment and Society aims to set forth a theoretical and discursive interruption of the dominant, mainstream environmental justice move- ment by reframing issues of climate change and environmental degradation through an anticolonial lens. Specifi cally, the writers for this volume are invested in positioning environmental justice within historical, social, political, and economic contexts and larger structures of power that foreground the relationships among settler colonialism, nature, and planetary devastation. KEYWORDS: climate change, environment, Indigenous, Indigenous knowledge, resistance, social movements In multiple sites across the world, Indigenous peoples are leading political and social move- ments for environmental justice. In Indigenous North America, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe spearheaded the resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline and historic environmental damage to the Missouri River. Indigenous Newar communities in Nepal have been protesting the Fast Track Road Project and other destructive development projects. Responses to climate change in Peru are also being conceptualized and enacted by Indigenous youth who are on the front lines of the latest forms of colonial devastation. Th ese are only a few examples of the ways in which Indigenous peoples are http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environment and Society Berghahn Books

Introduction: Indigenous Resurgence, Decolonization, and Movements for Environmental Justice

Dhillon, Jaskiran
Environment and Society , Volume 9 (1) – Sep 1, 2018
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Introduction Indigenous Resurgence, Decolonization, and Movements for Environmental Justice Jaskiran Dhillon ABSTRACT: Th is volume of Environment and Society aims to set forth a theoretical and discursive interruption of the dominant, mainstream environmental justice move- ment by reframing issues of climate change and environmental degradation through an anticolonial lens. Specifi cally, the writers for this volume are invested in positioning environmental justice within historical, social, political, and economic contexts and larger structures of power that foreground the relationships among settler colonialism, nature, and planetary devastation. KEYWORDS: climate change, environment, Indigenous, Indigenous knowledge, resistance, social movements In multiple sites across the world, Indigenous peoples are leading political and social move- ments for environmental justice. In Indigenous North America, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe spearheaded the resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline and historic environmental damage to the Missouri River. Indigenous Newar communities in Nepal have been protesting the Fast Track Road Project and other destructive development projects. Responses to climate change in Peru are also being conceptualized and enacted by Indigenous youth who are on the front lines of the latest forms of colonial devastation. Th ese are only a few examples of the ways in which Indigenous peoples are

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Environment and Society – Berghahn Books

Published: Sep 1, 2018

Keywords: climate change;environment;Indigenous;Indigenous knowledge;resistance;social movements

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