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Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice

Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice Kyle Whyte ABSTRACT: Settler colonialism is a form of domination that violently disrupts human relationships with the environment. Settler colonialism is ecological domination, com- mitting environmental injustice against Indigenous peoples and other groups. Focus- ing on the context of Indigenous peoples’ facing US domination, this article investigates philosophically one dimension of how settler colonialism commits environmental injustice. When examined ecologically, settler coloniali sm works strategically to under- mine Indigenous peoples’ social resilience as self-determining collectives. To under- stand the relationships connecting settler colonialism, environmental injustice, and violence, the article fi rst engages Anishinaabe intellectual traditions to describe an Indigenous conception of social resilience called collective continuance. One way in which settler colonial violence commits environmental injustice is through strategically undermining Indigenous collective continuance. At least two kinds of environmental injustices demonstrate such violence: vicious sedimentation and insidious loops. Th e article seeks to contribute to knowledge of how anti-Indigenous settler colonialism and environmental injustice are connected. KEYWORDS: anticolonialism, climate justice, decolonization, resilience, resurgence, sustainability Diverse persons, including scholars, writers and activists, have described settler colonial domi- nation as violence that disrupts human relationships with the environment. Lee Maracle writes that “violence to earth and violence between humans are connected” http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environment and Society Berghahn Books

Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice

Whyte, Kyle
Environment and Society , Volume 9 (1) – Sep 1, 2018
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Berghahn Books
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10.3167/ares.2018.090109
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Abstract

Kyle Whyte ABSTRACT: Settler colonialism is a form of domination that violently disrupts human relationships with the environment. Settler colonialism is ecological domination, com- mitting environmental injustice against Indigenous peoples and other groups. Focus- ing on the context of Indigenous peoples’ facing US domination, this article investigates philosophically one dimension of how settler colonialism commits environmental injustice. When examined ecologically, settler coloniali sm works strategically to under- mine Indigenous peoples’ social resilience as self-determining collectives. To under- stand the relationships connecting settler colonialism, environmental injustice, and violence, the article fi rst engages Anishinaabe intellectual traditions to describe an Indigenous conception of social resilience called collective continuance. One way in which settler colonial violence commits environmental injustice is through strategically undermining Indigenous collective continuance. At least two kinds of environmental injustices demonstrate such violence: vicious sedimentation and insidious loops. Th e article seeks to contribute to knowledge of how anti-Indigenous settler colonialism and environmental injustice are connected. KEYWORDS: anticolonialism, climate justice, decolonization, resilience, resurgence, sustainability Diverse persons, including scholars, writers and activists, have described settler colonial domi- nation as violence that disrupts human relationships with the environment. Lee Maracle writes that “violence to earth and violence between humans are connected”

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Environment and Society – Berghahn Books

Published: Sep 1, 2018

Keywords: anticolonialism;climate justice;decolonization;resilience;resurgence;sustainability

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