Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge and Sustainability

Settler Colonialism and the Environmental Crisis

Ranjan Datta, Jebunnessa Chapola, John Bosco Acharibasam

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032749051
• eBook ISBN: 9781040135044
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Economics

This edited volume explores the crucial intersections between Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge (ILK), sustainability, settler colonialism, and the ongoing environmental crisis.

Contributors from cross-cultural communities, including Indigenous, settlers, immigrants, and refugee communities, discuss why ILK and practice hold great potential for tackling our current environmental crises, particularly addressing the settler colonialism that contributes towards the environmental challenges faced in the world. The authors offer insights into sustainable practices, biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation, and sustainable land management and centre Indigenous perspectives on ILK as a space to practise, preserve, and promote Indigenous cultures. With case studies spanning topics as diverse as land acknowledgements, land-based learning, Indigenous-led water governance, and birth evacuation, this book shows how our responsibility for ILK can benefit collectively by fostering a more inclusive, sustainable, and interconnected world. Through the promotion of Indigenous perspectives and responsibility towards land and community, this volume advocates for a shift in paradigm towards more inclusive and sustainable approaches to environmental sustainability.

This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental sociology, postcolonial studies, and Indigenous studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgement
• Editors
• Contributors
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Walking in My Tīpuna Steps: Land-based Resurgence with Women Stories in Aotearoa, New Zealand
• 3 Traditional Storytelling as Land-based Heritage: Reflections from Indigenous Perspectives in Northern Malawi
• 4 Soulfully in Movement on the Land, as a Shiibaashka’igan Expressionist: Embodied Knowing and Anishinaabe Dance
• 5 Indigenous Land Sovereignty and Food Security in Saskatchewan, Canada
• 6 Land-based Learning and Its Implications for Preserving Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Ghana
• 7 Land-based Learning as a Methodology for Understanding Indigenous Water Governance
• 8 The Impact of the Climate Crisis on Forced Migration among Indigenous Communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh
• 9 Traditional Bengali Land-based Beadwork – A Form of Creating Belongingness for a Racialized Immigrant Woman in Canada
• 10 Taking Responsibility in Land-based Learning from a Racialized Woman’s Perspective in Canada
• 11 Decolonizing the Meaning of Land Acknowledgement: From and within Treat 7 Indigenous Perspectives, Canada
• 12 Conservation Ethos of Indigenous Munda Community vis à vis Land Grabbing Battles in Bangladesh’s Sundarban Mangroves
• 13 Unlearning to Relearning: Journey in Co-creating Space for Decolonization and Reconciliation
• 14 Creating Safe and Inclusive Spaces for Communities at Risk to Be Involved in Land-based Eco-action
• 15 Responsibility in Indigenous Land-based Knowledge and Environmental Sustainability
• Index