Indigenous Practice and Community-Led Climate Change Solutions

ISBN-13: 9781032484365 / Twarda / 2023 / 200 str.

Ranjan Datta

Opis

This book centers Indigenous knowledge and practice in community-led climate change solutions. It will be one of the first academic books to use the consciousness framework to examine and explain humans' situatedness and role in maintaining ecosystems' health.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2:  Decolonizing Positionality Chapter 3. Consciousness Framework Chapter 4. Methodology Chapter 5. Antiquity and Scientific Legitimacy of Consciousness Framework for Climate Change Chapter 6. The Value of Sarvajnapeeta in Handling Climate Change Chapter 7. Charyapada - Significance of the Lifestyle in Climate Change Chapter 8. Advocating for Traditional Knowledge-Based Climate Change Solutions Chapter 9. Operationalizing Consciousness Framework for Achieving Climate Change Solutions Chapter 10. Role of Colonization and Neo-Colonization on Climate Change  Chapter 11. Protecting Traditional Land-based Conscious Traditions for our future 

O autorze

Rani Muthukrishnan, Ph.D., Director of Research Compliance, Texas A&M University, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Rani’s research interests include consciousness science and diversity of divine feminine manifestation based on the Vedagama tradition, human-nature interaction, nature-culture intersection, children’s cognition of nature, advocating for women's roles in relation to nature, culture, and sustainability, and impact of climate change on biodiversity.

Ranjan Datta, Ph.D., Canada Research Chair in Community Disaster Research at Indigenous Studies, Department of Humanities, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Ranjan’s research interests include advocating for Indigenous environmental sustainabilities, responsibilities for decolonial research, Indigenous water and energy justice, critical anti-racist climate change resilience, and cross-cultural community research.