Environmental colonialism, digital indigeneity, and the politicization of resilience
While there is wide scholarly agreement that anthropogenic climate change has serious global implications, more debate exists around whether discourses of adaptation and resilience are effective at inspiring the necessary politics for addressing those implications. Resilience-based policies have bee...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/2514848619898098 2024-05-19T07:35:30+00:00 Environmental colonialism, digital indigeneity, and the politicization of resilience Young, Jason C Division of Social and Economic Sciences 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2514848619898098 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2514848619898098 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/2514848619898098 en eng SAGE Publications http://www.sagepub.com/licence-information-for-chorus Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space volume 4, issue 2, page 230-251 ISSN 2514-8486 2514-8494 journal-article 2020 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619898098 2024-05-02T09:39:08Z While there is wide scholarly agreement that anthropogenic climate change has serious global implications, more debate exists around whether discourses of adaptation and resilience are effective at inspiring the necessary politics for addressing those implications. Resilience-based policies have been criticized for being overly techno-bureaucratic in nature, while leaving intact the deeper colonial and neoliberal logics that produce ecological destruction in the first place. This paper examines the Internet as a tool that Indigenous peoples are using to intervene in discourses of resilience, to mitigate the colonial impact that resilience and adaptation policies have on their communities. It does this through an exploration of how Inuit in Canada are leveraging digital technologies to engage in discussions about hunting and climate change in the Arctic. The paper argues that Inuit are engaging in digital forms of politics to re-scale their vulnerability beyond the local, to highlight dimensions of Arctic resilience beyond the “traditional,” and to intervene in the colonial relationships that produce environmental vulnerability in the first place. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change inuit SAGE Publications Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 4 2 230 251 |
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While there is wide scholarly agreement that anthropogenic climate change has serious global implications, more debate exists around whether discourses of adaptation and resilience are effective at inspiring the necessary politics for addressing those implications. Resilience-based policies have been criticized for being overly techno-bureaucratic in nature, while leaving intact the deeper colonial and neoliberal logics that produce ecological destruction in the first place. This paper examines the Internet as a tool that Indigenous peoples are using to intervene in discourses of resilience, to mitigate the colonial impact that resilience and adaptation policies have on their communities. It does this through an exploration of how Inuit in Canada are leveraging digital technologies to engage in discussions about hunting and climate change in the Arctic. The paper argues that Inuit are engaging in digital forms of politics to re-scale their vulnerability beyond the local, to highlight dimensions of Arctic resilience beyond the “traditional,” and to intervene in the colonial relationships that produce environmental vulnerability in the first place. |
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Environmental colonialism, digital indigeneity, and the politicization of resilience |
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