Climate Action Show

Green Colonialism

Shae discusses green colonialism, what it is, how we see it in climate activism and the overall nuances that come with considering solutions to confront climate change and better ourselves as activists. To get a better understanding of this, Shae interviews Tiahni Adamson from Bush Heritage Australia.This show features music: Coming Home by Joey Leigh Wagtail and Cameleon by Ziggy Ramo. References Akama, J. S., Maingi, S. and Carmago, B. A. (2011) ‘Wildlife Conservation, Safari Tourism and the Role of Tourism Certification in Kenya: A Postcolonial Critique’, Tourism Recreation Research, 36(3)Bocarejo, D. and Ojeda, D. (2016) ‘Violence and Conservation: Beyond Unintended Consequences and Unfortunate Coincidences’, Geoforum, 69, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.11.001. Gilio-Whitaker, D. (2019) The Story We’ve Been Told About America’s National Parks Is Incomplete. Available at: https://time.com/5562258/indigenous-environmental-justice/ Jago, R. (2020) Canada’s National Parks are Colonial Crime Scenes. Available at: https://thewalrus.ca/canadas-national-parks-are-colonial-crime-scenes/ Dowie, M. (2011) Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Kimmerer, R. W. (2013) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions. Luke, T. W. (1997) ‘The World Wildlife Fund: Ecocolonialism as Funding the Worldwide “Wise Use” of Nature’, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 8(2), doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/10455759709358734. Adams, W. M. (2017) ‘Sleeping with the enemy? Biodiversity conservation, corporations and the green economy’, Journal of Political Ecology, 24(1), doi:https://doi.org/10.2458/v24i1.20804. Allen, K. (2018) ‘Why Exchange Values are Not Environmental Values: Explaining the Problem with Neoliberal Conservation’, Conservation and Society, 16(3), doi:http://www.jstor.org/stable/26500638. Bhattacharyya, J. and Slocombe, S. (2017) ‘Animal Agency: Wildlife Management from a Kincentric Perspective’, Ecosphere, 8(10), doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1978. Büscher, B., Sullivan, S., Neves, K., Igoe, J. and Brockington, D. (2012) ‘Towards a Synthesized Critique of Neoliberal Biodiversity Conservation’, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 23(2), doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2012.674149.Cox, P. A., Elmqvist, T. (1997) ‘Ecocolonialism and Indigenous-Controlled Rainforest Preserves in Samoa’, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 26(2).Crosby, A. (1986) Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fletcher, R. (2010) ‘Neoliberal Environmentality: Towards a Poststructuralist Political Ecology of the Conservation Debate’, Conservation and Society, 8(3), doi:http://www.jstor.org/stable/26393009 Goldman, M. J. (2020) Narrating Nature: Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press. Mantaay, J. (2002) ‘Mapping Environmental Injustices: Pitfalls and Potential of Geographic Information Systems in Assessing Environmental Health and Equity’, Environmental Health Perspectives, 110(2), doi:10.1289/ehp.02110s2161. Mei-Singh, L. (2016) ‘Carceral Conservationism: Contested Landscapes and Technologies of Dispossession at Ka‘ena Point, Hawai‘i’, American Quarterly, 68(3), doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2016.0059. Mitall, A. and Fraser, E. (2018) ‘Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever’, The Oakland Institute.Neale, T. (2017) Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. Nogrady, B. (2019) ‘Trauma of Australia's Indigenous 'Stolen Generations' is still affecting children today’, Nature (London), 570(7762), doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01948-3. Pascoe, B. (2014) Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture. Broome: Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation. Smith, W., Neale, T., Weir, J. K.

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