This book challenges mainstream Western IEJ (intergenerational
environmental justice) in a manner that privileges indigenous
philosophies and highlights the value these philosophies have for
solving global environmental problems. Divided into three parts, the
book begins by examining the framing of Western liberal environmental,
intergenerational and indigenous justice theory and reviews decolonial
theory. Using contemporary case studies drawn from the courts, film,
biography and protests actions, the second part explores contemporary
Māori and Aboriginal experiences of values-conflict in encounters
with politics and law. It demonstrates the deep ontological rifts
between the philosophies that inform Māori and Aboriginal
intergenerational justice (IJ) and those of the West that underpin the
politics and law of these two settler states. Existing Western IEJ
theories, across distributional, communitarian, human rights based and
the capabilities approach to IJ, are tested against obligations and
duties of specific Māori and Aboriginal iwi and clans. Finally, in
the third part, it explores the ways we relate to time and across
generations to create regenerative IJ. Challenging the previous
understanding of the conceptualization of time, it posits that it is
in how we relate—human to human, human to nonhuman, nonhuman to
human—that robust conceptualization of IEJ emerges. This volume
presents an imagining of IEJ which accounts for indigenous norms on
indigenous terms and explores how this might be applied in national
and international responses to climate change and environmental
degradation. Demonstrating how assumptions in mainstream justice
theory continue to colonise indigenous people and render indigenous
knowledge invisible, this book will be of great interest to students
and scholars of environmental and intergenerational philosophy,
political theory, indigenous studies and decolonial studies, and
environmental humanities more broadly.
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Indigenous Philosophy, the Environment and Relationships
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781000432459
Publisert
2021
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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