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Indigenous Peoples and Development Processes: New Terrains of Struggle
2004
This chapter draws on the work of many people and scholars from whom we have drawn insights, including: Philip Awashish, Jasmin Habib, Peter Harries-Jones, Chief Harvey Longboat, and Colin Scott. Open Access to this chapter and the book are also available at: https://www.idrc.ca/en/book/way-development-indigenous-peoples-life-projects-and-globalization . The book is also available at: https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/in-the-way-of-development/
A Two-edged Sword: a perspective from Indigenous peoples
National Perspectives on Globalization: A Critical Reader. Paul Bowles & Henry Veltmeyer (eds),, 2007
The focus of this chapter is the phenomenon of globalization as a contemporary manifestation of a long historical process of expansionism, in which tensions between the contested mandates of expansion and accumulation has been in constant interplay with the world’s indigenous peoples. This chapter explores the dialectic relationship between indigenous peoples and the transformation of the state under the aegis of globalization. Two key themes underpin this discussion. The first is the processes by which the early imperialist endeavour saw sovereign indigenous peoples within resource-rich lands and territories either eradicated as much as possible or recast as dependent populations within nation states. The second concerns the strategies of resistance that indigenous peoples have employed, the impact of these strategies on the shaping of world order, and the ambiguities of the state responses in this present postmodern moment.
EJGC indigenous people 2013 book
is arranged each year through the Inter-Disciplinary.Net, a knowledge-creating network of scholars and practitioners in various disciplines who share their approaches to a common global problem. Recent studies in group behaviour, such as those by economist Scott Page, suggest problems involving complex systems require cognitive diversity. Studies in organisation systems suggest innovation and creative solutions often arise from the overlap of knowledge boundaries, which can occur within interdisciplinary teams. The 11 th Global Conference on Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship was truly interdisciplinary, as it engaged scholars and practitioners in philosophy, law, education, business, health care, ecology and government. An interdisciplinary approach can lead to new ways to use existing models, or suggest entirely new models to address those aspects of complex problems for which existing models are not effective. The chapters in the present volume include those that view the problems of environmental justice through the lens of an old model, as well as those papers that highlight the limitations or failures of existing models, and those that propose new models. The chapters are further organised as three parts. The first and second part present chapters that use existing models to understand problems of environmental justice and global citizenship. Chapters in the third part highlight the limitations of existing models or suggest new models for these problems. Chapters in Part 1 examine problems of environmental justice and global citizenship using philosophical models of agency, individual rights and social justice. We begin with an examination of individual duty to protect the environment based upon a Kantian moral framework provided by Bradford S. Hadaway in 'Kantian Virtue and the Excessive Demands Problem in Environmental Justice.' In the second chapter, 'Is Environmental Justice Possible within the Framework of Liberalism?' we shift from Kant to Descartes. George N. Politis argues that because two dominant political theories, liberal capitalism and Marxist socialism, embrace as their roots the Cartesian imperative of human domination of nature, neither is likely to support the goals of environmental justice. Mark Ryan suggests political failure to effect environmental justice reflects the media's inability to adequately inform the public to support rational decisions, as presented in 'The Precautionary Principle, Libertarianism and Paternalism.' Colin W. Maguire provides the fourth chapter in Part 1, 'American Stewardship: A Path Already Laid.' Maguire suggests American conservative principles based upon __________________________________________________________________ xi Galvin. We describe an undergraduate study of how several information technology businesses use social media to communicate environmental and social responsibility. The chapter provides one example of integrating ethics and corporate responsibility into a business education programme. Knowledge about environmental and social justice is created and shared outside the traditional academic sphere, as well. The last chapter in Part 2 presents results from five qualitative case studies of health care agencies in Australia, which indicate how environmental justice has been integrated to health care practice and policy. 'Promoting Health, Social and Environmental Justice in the Context of Health Care' by Rebecca Patrick and Teresa Capetola provides examples of the integration of environmental sustainability, justice and health in regional and urban health care in the practices of Victoria health care agencies. Part 3 assesses the limitations of existing models to address current problems of environmental and social justice, and the destructive consequences of these failures. This part begins with several examples of specific failures and their dire environmental consequences. It ends with suggestions for new models that promise some solutions to these complex problems. 'Corruption Deforestation and Environmental Injustice: The Case of Indonesia,' by Fiona Downs and Luca Tacconi, describes the failures in the political system that led to destruction of Indonesian forests in 2010-2011, and its effects on local populations. Adebola Babatunde Ekanola discusses the obligation to support socioeconomic fairness at individual, national and international levels in his chapter, 'Environmental Injustice, SocioEconomic Injustice and the Crises in the Niger-Delta Region of Nigeria: The Roles of Multinational Oil Corporations, Government and Global Citizens.' Global citizens are reminded they influence these goals through individual consumer and financial choices. The authors of 'Environmental Justice under Our Skin? Socio-Stratifying Human Biomonitoring Results of Adolescents Living Near an Industrial Hotspot in Flanders, Belgium' echo the relationship between environmental justice and social justice. Bert Morrens, Liesbeth Bruckers, Ilse Loots, Elly Den Hond, Vera Nelen, Nik Van Larebeke, Isabelle Sioen, Greet Schoeters and Willy Baeyens describe the interrelationship between the effect of environmental pollutants on humans and social stratification, and analyse its implications for evaluating environmental health risks. Ingrid M. Hoofd examines the conflict between humanism and environmental justice in 'The Climate Change Issue: Beyond the "True" or "Not True."' Hoofd suggests Western institutions like traditional news media hobble individuals' abilities to understand and evaluate environmental questions. The last three chapter in Part 3 propose new approaches to environmental justice and global citizenship. Hossain Seraj and Philip R. Walsh use a life cycle assessment approach to compare biofuels from corn and from algae to petroleum products in terms of economic, social and environmental effects.
6. Indigenous Lessons about Sustainability Are Not Just for “All Humanity”
Sustainability, 2018
Indigenous peoples are widely recognized as holding insights or lessons about how the rest of humanity can live sustainably or resiliently. Yet it is rarely acknowledged in many literatures that for Indigenous peoples living in the context of settler states such as the U.S. or New Zealand, our own efforts to sustain our peoples rest heavily on our capacities to resist settler colonial oppression. Indigenous planning refers to a set of concepts and practices through which many Indigenous peoples reflect critically on sustainability to derive lessons about what actions reinforce Indigenous self-determination and resist settler colonial oppression. The work of the Sustainable Development Institute of the College of Menominee Nation (SDI) is one case of Indigenous planning. In the context of SDI, we discuss Indigenous planning as a process of interpreting lessons from our own pasts and making practical plans for staging our own futures. If there are such things as Indigenous sustainabil...
Authored as a result of a remarkable collaboration between indigenous people's own leaders, other social activists and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this volume explores what is happening today to indigenous peoples as they are enmeshed, almost inevitably, in the remorseless expansion of the modern economy and development, at the behest of the pressures of the market-place and government. It is particularly timely, given the rise in criticism of free market capitalism generally, as well as of development. The volume seeks to capture the complex, power-laden, often contradictory features of indigenous agency and relationships. It shows how peoples do not just resist or react to the pressures of market and state, but also initiate and sustain "life projects" of their own which embody local history and incorporate plans to improve their social and economic ways of living.
Sustainability, development and devastation: New encounters in indigenous dialogues
2019
According to the World Bank, indigenous people number approximately 370,000,000 people across 90+ countries, but comprise some of the most impoverished and disenfranchised groups globally. Exploitation and appropriation of their territories are implicated in contemporary social and economic developments across the world, while the voices of indigenous people are muted and their political leverage compromised by insufficiently reformed legacies of historical marginalisation.
'To be or not to be': Deconstructing indigenous sustainability
It could be said that any field ofpractice that cannot or will not critically examine itself is at the mercy of and limited by its own blind spots. This paper systematically uncovers the mechanisms and implications of this assertion within the field ofIndigenous' sustainability to show that sustainability, and reconciliation between Western and Indigenous worldviews, are fundamentally spiritual matters. It first demonstrates how Eurocentric thinking and land use practices have been unsustainable and in conflict with Indigenous thinking and land use practices from the outset, and then deconstructs the oxymoron of'sustainable development' and the pleonasm of'Indigenous sustainability' to illustratehow unexamined cultural assumptions, with their imbedded ambiguities, are carried into policy and practice. This deconstruction supports the thesis that, as a primarily spiritual issue, sustainability needs to focus on promoting ontological change, as a prerequisite priority over, and pathway to, facilitating exterior structural change. Finally, this article explores how Western rational objectivity censors the spiritual and is thus pivotal to unsustainable living. It concludes with examples of'huge questions' elicited from such unsustainable dynamics, and consequently proposes a practical focus for new approaches to sustainability that incorporate Indigenous spirituality.