Editorial overview: Indigenous conceptualizations of ‘sustainability’

Virtanen, Pirjo Kristiina; Siragusa, Laura; Guttorm, Hanna

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2020.04.004

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“…We argue that the UN SDGs use several Western-oriented definitions of science, sustainability, development, society, and nature, among others, which, in some cases, conflict with indigenous narratives and social representations [10]. New studies are needed to shorten, not increase, distances between worldviews to achieve global sustainability.…”

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Participatory Detection of Language Barriers towards Multilingual Sustainability(ies) in Africa

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Hirsch²,

Caron

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Sustainability

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After decades of political, economic, and scientific efforts, humanity has not gotten any closer to global sustainability. With less than a decade to reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) deadline of the 2030 Agenda, we show that global development agendas may be getting lost in translation, from their initial formulation to their final implementation. Sustainability science does not “speak” most of the 2000 languages from Africa, where the lack of indigenous terminology hinders global efforts such as the COVID-19 pandemic fight. Sociolinguistics, social psychology, cognitive ergonomics, geography, environmental sciences, and artificial intelligence (AI) are all relevant disciplinary fields to uncover the “foreign language effect” that hinders the implementation of the SDGs in Africa. We make the case for detecting and addressing language barriers towards multilingual sustainability in Africa by (1) exploring the ”foreign language effect” among African decision-makers and recognising their alternative social representations about sustainability; and (2) detecting Western language stereotypes about sustainability. We propose rethinking SDG-related scientific notions through participatory natural language processing (NLP) and the study of African social representations of sustainability, thus enabling a more inclusive and efficient approach to “sustainability(ies)”.

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confidence: 95%

Participatory Detection of Language Barriers towards Multilingual Sustainability(ies) in Africa

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Caron

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Sustainability

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“…Scrutiny of how social and ecological ‘feedbacks’ can reinforce one another to ‘lock’ a system into an undesirable state places attention on the value of ‘disruption’ for producing greater environmental sustainability and human wellbeing, highlighting the importance of women’s empowerment, of co-management, and of indigenous knowledge [ 36 • , 37 ]. This is seen in the application of ‘Transformation-Labs (T-Labs)’, a methodology for generating innovative approaches to transforming social-ecological systems [ 21 •• , 38 •• , 39 •• ].…”

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“…A final area contributing to thinking on sustainability transformations, relates to perspectives on social activism in the Global South that give attention to different epistemologies on sustainability [ 37 ] and to post-humanist thinking on ways of being in the world [ 63 ]. These perspectives inform environmental justice movements and radical critiques of development, including challenges to dominant notions of sustainability and transformation [ 45 •• , 64 • , 65 ].…”

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Critical social science perspectives on transformations to sustainability

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Brondízio

Boyd

2022

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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“…In the context of the Global South, the differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers can clearly be recognized ), but different researchers are needed to change the course of power relations and the planetary situation (see e.g. Virtanen et al 2020). In this effort, the question of how to do research and Indigenous sovereignty become primary.…”

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Indigenous Research Methodologies in Sámi and Global Contexts

Virtanen¹,

Keskitalo²,

Olsen

2021

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This chapter addresses the genealogy of Indigenous studies, and how it is conceptualized and practised in the Sámi context. It discusses the inclusion of Indigenous knowledges and Indigenous ways of doing research in academia, as well as the role of Indigenous research methodologies in this effort. We link our chapter to larger academic Indigenous discussions on the concepts of 'knowledge' , 'decolonization' , 'research' and 'indigenization' . At the theoretical and practical levels these processes and initiatives have enabled researchers to shed light on Indigenous views on the past, the present, and the future, first of all in Indigenous societies, but also in academia. This chapter also addresses the challenges of moving between local and global levels. Indigenous research contexts are diverse and dynamic, and the key to creating dialogues, bridges, and collaboration, lies in this very diversity, complexity, and multivocality of Indigenous societies.

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Editorial overview: Indigenous conceptualizations of ‘sustainability’

Cited by 14 publications

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Participatory Detection of Language Barriers towards Multilingual Sustainability(ies) in Africa

Participatory Detection of Language Barriers towards Multilingual Sustainability(ies) in Africa

Critical social science perspectives on transformations to sustainability

Indigenous Research Methodologies in Sámi and Global Contexts

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