Full Description
Power With: Indigenous Knowledges, Environmental Practice, and the Strength of Collaboration calls for a paradigm shift in environmental science and education. This groundbreaking collection advocates for ethical and effective collaborations between Indigenous Peoples and communities and environmental practitioners working at the intersection of Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing, and Eurocentric environmental sciences. Through case studies grounded in community-based research and dialogue from a gathering of contributing authors, this volume asks urgent questions: How does the status quo in environmental sciences support ongoing colonial impacts? How can we stand with Indigenous science? And how can collaborative work at the intersection of Indigenous and Eurocentric sciences help address "wicked problems," such as conservation and sustainability in the context of the climate crisis?
This 16-chapter volume brings together 43 Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors, academic instructors, emerging scholars, community members, government scientists, researchers, youth, and practitioners, along with three research collectives. It offers concrete examples of collaborative research projects and amplifies the voices of those most affected. The editors and authors provide tools, guidance, and advice for creating a lasting impact for healthier people and planet.
Power With is designed to be accessible for 200- to 300-level students as well as environmental practitioners. It includes several dialogue-based chapters to enhance engagement and forward Indigenous epistemologies. This timely collection offers a clear and accessible resource for courses in environmental sciences and studies, Indigenous studies, sociology, anthropology, geography, forestry, gender studies, and health studies.
Contents
Foreword
Preface: The Inspiration and Roadmap for This Book
Part I: Disrupting the Environmental Discourse Paradigm
Chapter 1: A Need for Change: Conversations on Knowledge Inequities in Environmental Science and Practice
Chapter 2: (Un)Learning Our Connections to Nature
Chapter 3: Standing with Indigenous Science
Chapter 4: Positionality: Situating Oneself within the Context of Land, Water, Identity, Privilege, and Power
Chapter 5: Knowledge Equity and Ethical Space
Part II: Evidence of the Shift: Examples from Various Environmental Science and Studies Fields
Chapter 6: Braiding Knowledges in Landscape Science: Towards A More Holistic Understanding of Landscape Change
Chapter 7: What Rivers Can Teach Us About a More Relational Approach to Water Science
Chapter 8: Indigenous Kinship with Fire
Chapter 9: Uprooting Colonial Conservation: Returning to Kinship
Chapter 10: Expanding the Circle: Meaningful Collaboration toward Caribou Conservation in Canada
Chapter 11: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Conservation in the Peruvian Andes
Chapter 12: Reframing Fisheries Research
Part III: Actioning the Paradigm Shift
Chapter 13: Visual Methods in Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Environmental Research Collaborations
Chapter 14: Reframing and Applying Natural Science as a Tool for Ethical Collaborations
Chapter 15: Language Matters: The Words We Choose
Chapter 16: Tools for Transformative Change in Environmental Discourse and Practice
The Words We Choose to Use: A Glossary of Terms
About the Authors
