Safeguarding Indigenous Heritage in the Anthropocene: A Transnational Comparative Study of the Northwest Territories, Canada, and Northern Chile ...

• Main Author: Haboucha, Rebecca
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository 2020
• Subjects: Heritage Studies; Chile; Canada; Indigenous Peoples; Climate change; Anthropocene; Decolonization; First Nations; Northwest Territories
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.63327; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/316218

Climate change has been widely recognised as one of the most urgent and growing threats to natural and cultural heritage in the twenty-first century, and the indelible impact of humanity has led to the definition of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Indigenous peoples are disproportionately affected by natural and human-induced changes to the environment. Their vulnerability is exacerbated by centuries of cultural and territorial disenfranchisement within settler-colonial nations. This dissertation aims at understanding Indigenous perceptions of heritage in the face of climate change and its intersection with the impacts of settler- colonialism. It analyses how these on-the-ground perceptions can, in turn, inform heritage organisations and contribute to safeguarding the many facets of tangible and intangible Indigenous heritage for future generations in the Anthropocene. This is accomplished through a comparative, transnational case study of two communities each from the Dehcho First Nations in the ...