Is It Colonial Déjà Vu? Indigenous Peoples and Climate Injustice
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 2017
- Form
- Essay
- Language
- English
- Length
- Short · 20 ppunder 120 pages
- Difficulty
- Demanding3 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendHumanities for the Environment, Integrating Knowledge, Forging New Constellations of PracticeRoutledge, 2017The essay collection edited by Joni Adamson and Michael Davis in which the article first appeared.
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An essay by the Potawatomi philosopher Kyle Powys Whyte arguing that for Indigenous peoples climate change is not a new crisis but a repetition of colonialism. Settler colonialism, he argues, already worked by disrupting the relationships between Indigenous peoples and their ecosystems, forcing them to adapt rapidly to imposed environmental change, so that anthropogenic climate change intensifies an old injustice rather than starting a new one. Whyte draws on Anishinaabe examples and on the responsibilities of collective continuance to argue that climate justice must address colonial power and Indigenous self-determination.
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