Indigenous environmental defenders in Aotearoa New Zealand: Ihumātao and Ōroua River

Mika, Jason Paul; Dell, Kiri; Elers, Christine; Dutta, Mohan J.; Tong, Qing

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“…This entails the development of a political community that rejects colonial categories, emphasizes and rectifies power asymmetries, and removes the nation as the locus of political identification, thus eradicating concepts of permanent majorities and minorities within the political sphere and opening the possibility of emancipation for Indigenous and settler alike ( 44 , 56 , 209 ). How precisely this process might intersect with and elevate Indigenous sovereignty is not yet fully clear or excavated, but Indigenous activists and scholars are charting politics of refusal ( 62 ), resurgence ( 210 , 211 ), survivance Land Back ( 212 , 213 ), environmental repossession ( 214 ), grounded normativity ( 32 , 215 ), environmental defense ( 216 ), therapeutic reclamation ( 217 ), bad biocitizenship ( 202 ), extra-colonial visioning ( 218 , 219 ), sumud ( 220 ), culture-centred approaches and solidarities ( 221–222 ), embodied resistance ( 223 ), unrelenting anticolonial struggle ( 63 ), and the dismantling of supremacist knowledge production paradigms ( 57 ), each of which brings us closer.…”

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Because its power remains naturalized: introducing the settler colonial determinants of health

Wispelwey

Tanous

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Front. Public Health

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Indigenous people suffer earlier death and more frequent and severe disease than their settler counterparts, a remarkably persistent reality over time, across settler colonized geographies, and despite their ongoing resistance to elimination. Although these health inequities are well-known, they have been impervious to comprehensive and convincing explication, let alone remediation. Settler colonial studies, a fast-growing multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field, is a promising candidate to rectify this impasse. Settler colonialism’s relationship to health inequity is at once obvious and incompletely described, a paradox arising from epistemic coloniality and perceived analytic challenges that we address here in three parts. First, in considering settler colonialism an enduring structure rather than a past event, and by wedding this fundamental insight to the ascendant structural paradigm for understanding health inequities, a picture emerges in which this system of power serves as a foundational and ongoing configuration determining social and political mechanisms that impose on human health. Second, because modern racialization has served to solidify and maintain the hierarchies of colonial relations, settler colonialism adds explanatory power to racism’s health impacts and potential amelioration by historicizing this process for differentially racialized groups. Finally, advances in structural racism methodologies and the work of a few visionary scholars have already begun to elucidate the possibilities for a body of literature linking settler colonialism and health, illuminating future research opportunities and pathways toward the decolonization required for health equity.

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Because its power remains naturalized: introducing the settler colonial determinants of health

Wispelwey

Tanous

Asi

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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“…In January 2020, the Horizons Regional Council ("Horizons") took possession of one of the last few remaining acres of ancestral land, located close to Kauwhata marae, sparking a land occupation by the Feilding Advisory Group and their Whānau to protest the modern-day confiscation of their land (see Ganesh et al, 2021;Mika et al, 2022). Horizons took the land to build a stop bank to prevent flooding in the area, allegedly caused by the 1-in-100-years flood that occurs in the district.…”

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Academic-community solidarities in land occupation as an Indigenous claim to health: culturally centered solidarity through voice infrastructures

Elers

Dutta

2023

Front. Commun.

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In this work, we explore the role of land in Indigenous theorizing about health, embodied in a land occupation that resisted a climate-adaptive development project imposed on the community from the top down by the local government. The proposed development project of building a stop bank on the Oroua River sought to alienate Māori from the remnants of the land. Embedded in and emerging from a culture-centered academic-community-activist partnership, an advisory group of Māori community members om the “margins of the margins” came together to participate in the occupation of the land to claim it as the basis for securing their health. This study describes the occupation and the role of our academic-activist intervention in it, theorizing land occupation as the root of decolonizing health emerging from Indigenous struggles for sovereignty (Tino rangatiratanga). The community advisory group members brought together in a culture-centered intervention, collaborated in partnership with the academic team, generated video narratives that resisted and dismantled the communicative inversions produced by the settler colonial state to perpetuate its extractive interests and produced communicative resources that supported the land occupation led by the broader Whānau. This study concludes by arguing that the culture-centered approach offers a meta-theory for decolonizing health communication by building voice infrastructures that support Indigenous land struggles.

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“…Socialization of minerals and energy sources along with agriculture could pave the way for fuller land rights in which First Nation people could exert greater control over the productive processes that occur on their traditional lands. This would include giving sites on First Nation land citizenship rights, in keeping with the rights of nature movement in Latin America and Aotearoa (New Zealand) where the Whanganui River on the North Island was granted legal personhood (Mika et al, 2022).…”

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Indigenous Australians and engaged anthropologists: how can they struggle together for social justice and a safe climate?

Baer

2022

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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This article is written from the position of eco-socialist scholarship. Given that anthropogenic climate change that is driven by the expropriation of the atmospheric commons constitutes a growing crisis for First Nation peoples around the world, it is imperative that engaged anthropologists, form linkages with anti-systemic movements, including Indigenous and ethnic rights movements, for social justice and environmental sustainability. In the Australian case, this article argues that there is a need to revisit and rejuvenate earlier black-red-green alliances with a push for First Peoples to receive public funds to own and control their own green energy projects, a process which has the potential to contribute to the decolonization of the Australian political economy. In some sectors, these alliances are already occurring with organizations such Original Power and the First Nations Clean Energy Network, as First Nation communities take matters into their own hands.

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Indigenous environmental defenders in Aotearoa New Zealand: Ihumātao and Ōroua River

Cited by 14 publications

References 43 publications

Because its power remains naturalized: introducing the settler colonial determinants of health

Because its power remains naturalized: introducing the settler colonial determinants of health

Academic-community solidarities in land occupation as an Indigenous claim to health: culturally centered solidarity through voice infrastructures

Indigenous Australians and engaged anthropologists: how can they struggle together for social justice and a safe climate?

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