Indigenous Intergenerational Resilience: Confronting Cultural and Ecological Crisis

ISBN-13: 9780367442125 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 226 str.

Lewis Williams

Opis

This book argues that there is a need to develop greater indigenous-led intergenerational resilience in order to meet the challenges posed by contemporary crises of climate change, cultural clashes, and adversity.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Indigenous-led intergenerational resilience: The work of the "now"  Chapter 2: The cultural and generational dimensions of climate and ecological crisis  Chapter 3: Paradigms of resurgence and intergenerational resilience  Chapter 4: Rongoā Māori as a generative response to the crises of our times  Chapter 5: Ko ngā Pūrāko ō Tūrangawaewae—Stories of finding the places where we can be powerful  Chapter 6: A global decolonial praxis of sustainability—Undoing epistemic violences through critical pedagogies of place   Chapter 7: The dish with one spoon: Rehonoring an ancient treaty  Chapter 8: The whakapapa (genealogy) of all things

O autorze

Lewis Williams is an interdisciplinary, Indigenous, feminist scholar-practitioner of Ngāi Te Rangi descent. Her scholarship and practice centre on Indigenous resurgence and reconciliation as key means of addressing Indigenous disparities and human-planetary wellbeing. Growing up in Aotearoa / New Zealand and initially qualifying and practicing as a social worker and community developer, she has worked and lived within diverse communities and regions within Aotearoa / New Zealand, Turtle Island / Canada, and Australia. Lewis is the Founding Director of the Alliance for Intergenerational Resilience (AIR), a Canadian-based international not-for-profit organization whose aim is strengthening human-ecological resilience through the resurgence of Indigenous knowledges and lifeways within all peoples. She is also an Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies Program and Department of Geography and Environment, University of Western Ontario, Turtle Island / Canada.