Are the pens working for justice? News media coverage of renewable energy involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Walker, Colin; Alexander, Alyssa; Doucette, Mary Beth; Lewis, Diana; Neufeld, Hanna Tait; Martin, Debbie; Masuda, Jeff; Stefanelli, Robert; Castleden, Heather

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2019.101230

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“…A SHARED Future is a research program that brings forward stories of healing and reconciliation in the context of intersectoral partnerships associated with renewable energy transitions [ 55 , 56 , 57 ]. This research program aims to contribute to a just praxis on the global energy transition now underway in the wake of the climate change crisis.…”

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Implementing Indigenous Gender-Based Analysis in Research: Principles, Practices and Lessons Learned

Sanchez-Pimienta

Masuda

Doucette

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Numerous tools for addressing gender inequality in governmental policies, programs, and research have emerged across the globe. Unfortunately, such tools have largely failed to account for the impacts of colonialism on Indigenous Peoples’ lives and lands. In Canada, Indigenous organizations have advanced gender-based analysis frameworks that are culturally-grounded and situate the understanding of gender identities, roles, and responsibilities within and across diverse Indigenous contexts. However, there is limited guidance on how to integrate Indigenous gender-based frameworks in the context of research. The authors of this paper are participants of a multi-site research program investigating intersectoral spaces of Indigenous-led renewable energy development within Canada. Through introspective methods, we reflected on the implementation of gender considerations into our research team’s governance and research activities. We found three critical lessons: (1) embracing Two-Eyed Seeing or Etuaptmumk while making space for Indigenous leadership; (2) trusting the expertise that stems from the lived experiences and relationships of researchers and team members; and (3) shifting the emphasis from ‘gender-based analysis’ to ‘gender-based relationality’ in the implementation of gender-related research considerations. Our research findings provide a novel empirical example of the day-to-day principles and practices that may arise when implementing Indigenous gender-based analysis frameworks in the context of research.

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Implementing Indigenous Gender-Based Analysis in Research: Principles, Practices and Lessons Learned

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Masuda

Doucette

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“…In addition, online news is widely available and easily accessible to the general public at little or no cost. In general, the choice of focusing on online news is supported by past research that considered news, or web coverage [37], as a potential enhancing factor for the diffusion of green technologieslooking, for example, at biogas production in Finland [38], renewable energy in Canada [39], or the energy scenario in Germany [40]. Thanks to the relatively fast analysis of big textual data, these approaches allow the description of complex relationships and provide insights in almost real-time.…”

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Evaluating and improving social awareness of energy communities through semantic network analysis of online news

Piselli

Colladon

Segneri

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…2.1 Indigenous peoples' involvement in renewable energy in Canada Scholarship concerning Indigenous peoples' engagement in renewable energy in Canada has grown over the past decade (see Campbell, 2011;Krupa et al, 2012a, b;Krupa et al, 2015;Mercer et al, 2020;Ozog, 2012;Rezaei and Dowlatabadi, 2016;Schultz, 2017;Smith and Scott, 2018;Stefanelli et al, 2018;Walker et al, 2019). This literature points to the idea that Indigenous peoples may be well-positioned and motivated to play an important role in a renewable energy transition (see also Henderson, 2013).…”

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“…However, there are also clear risks of engaging in the wrong kind of renewable energy development (e.g. large-scale hydro projects like Site C in British Columbia; see also Walker et al, 2019). Building energy projects without regard for how such development impacts local Indigenous histories and ways of life can create new sacrifice zones (see Cole and Foster, 2001;Lerner, 2010;Scott and Smith, 2016) that can simply recast stories of injustice (Bickerstaff et al, 2013;Hudson and Vodden, 2020;Murphy and Smith, 2013).…”

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“…The notion of renewable energy, with its low environmental impact, is said to align with Indigenous ways of knowing (Lowan-Trudeau, 2017; Planes as quoted by Kairos Canada, 2018). In a recent review of Indigenous renewable energy, Stefanelli et al (2018) wrote that such developments may also provide pathways toward advancing Indigenous-settler reconciliation and re-establishing Indigenous self-sufficiency (see also Campney, 2019;Pembina Institute, 2018;Walker et al, 2019). Yet when Crown-owned and corporate utilities regulate and control new energy generation, there is little space or ability for Indigenous peoples (including communities, corporations, individuals and governments) to build, own and control projects themselves.…”

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Non-Indigenous partner perspectives on Indigenous peoples' involvement in renewable energy: exploring reconciliation as relationships of accountability or status quo innocence?

Walker

Doucette

Rotz

et al. 2021

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PurposeThis research considers the potential for renewable energy partnerships to contribute to Canada's efforts to overcome its colonial past and present by developing an understanding of how non-Indigenous peoples working in the sector relate to their Indigenous partners.Design/methodology/approachThis study is part of a larger research program focused on decolonization and reconciliation in the renewable energy sector. This exploratory research is framed by energy justice and decolonial reconciliation literatures relevant to the topic of Indigenous-led renewable energy. The authors used content and discourse analysis to identify themes arising from 10 semi-structured interviews with non-Indigenous corporate and governmental partners.FindingsInterviewees’ lack of prior exposure to Indigenous histories, cultures and acknowledgement of settler colonialism had a profound impact on their engagement with reconciliation frameworks. Partners' perspectives on what it means to partner with Indigenous peoples varied; most dismissed the need to further develop understandings of reconciliation and instead focused on increasing community capacity to allow Indigenous groups to participate in the renewable energy transition.Research limitations/implicationsIn this study, the authors intentionally spoke with non-Indigenous peoples working in the renewable energy sector. Recruitment was a challenge and the sample is small. The authors encourage researchers to extend their questions to other organizations in the renewable energy sector, across industries and with Indigenous peoples given this is an under-researched field.Originality/valueThis paper is an early look at the way non-Indigenous “partners” working in renewable energy understand and relate to topics of reconciliation, Indigenous rights and self-determination. It highlights potential barriers to reconciliation that are naïvely occurring at organizational and institutional levels, while anchored in colonial power structures.

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Are the pens working for justice? News media coverage of renewable energy involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Cited by 35 publications

References 65 publications

Implementing Indigenous Gender-Based Analysis in Research: Principles, Practices and Lessons Learned

Implementing Indigenous Gender-Based Analysis in Research: Principles, Practices and Lessons Learned

Evaluating and improving social awareness of energy communities through semantic network analysis of online news

Non-Indigenous partner perspectives on Indigenous peoples' involvement in renewable energy: exploring reconciliation as relationships of accountability or status quo innocence?

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