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When the land is sick, we are sick
For Indigenous peoples,
climate change is one more catastrophic loss on top of decades of land
abuses and intergenerational traumas. The exploitation of
natural resources under colonialism has consistently marginalised and
dispossessed communities around the world whose ways of life are based on the
land. Environmental changes,
often labelled as 'protection' or 'development' measures, have forcibly
displaced many Indigenous people from their homelands. Extractive industries
and neo-colonial green energy projects are altering delicate ecosystems,
harming the health of both the humans and non-human beings that inhabit them.
This book examines
where land, territories and the human body are sites of simultaneous trauma and
the ways in which different forms of ecological degradation unmoor us. Starting
from solastalgia, a form of mental distress caused by environmental change and
one's feelings of inability to prevent or reverse land sickness, the Land
Body Ecologies collective present reflections from people living through
environmental changes, and propose cultural rights and practices as a mechanism
for survival, revival and healing.
