Indigenous mobility traditions, colonialism, and the anthropocene

Whyte, Kyle Powys; Talley, Jared L.; Gibson, Julia D.

doi:10.1080/17450101.2019.1611015

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“…Strong place attachment and reliance on a narrow resource base and/or a limited availability of culturally important resources can also put communities at constant threat of environmental change and limit the potential for adaptations through relocation or changing livelihoods, 43,44 although in many contexts such limits stem as much from colonially imposed constraints to traditional mobility patterns as they do from environmental change. 45 Although place attachment has the potential to create vulnerability, ''place'' is not static, and new configurations of peopleplace relationships often reflect changing socio-ecological conditions. Place thus remains an enduring feature in many Indigenous cultures.…”

Section: Resilience Factors and Indigenous Peoplesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…63,111 Many of these diverse strategies that underpin resilience can be broadly thought of as ''indigenous mobility traditions.'' 45 Such mobility is often a central component of Indigenous institutions and political systems, integrates community norms and responsibilities, and is predicated upon in-depth knowledge of environmental conditions embodied within IK. The ability to switch food species in hunting societies, for example, depends ll OPEN ACCESS on knowledge of the behavior of different species and how they are harvested and prepared, confidence to travel in different environments, and the ability to synchronize activities in accordance with ecosystem dynamics.…”

Section: Collective Actionmentioning

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The Resilience of Indigenous Peoples to Environmental Change

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Indigenous peoples globally have high exposure to environmental change and are often considered an ''atrisk'' population, although there is growing evidence of their resilience. In this Perspective, we examine the common factors affecting this resilience by illustrating how the interconnected roles of place, agency, institutions, collective action, Indigenous knowledge, and learning help Indigenous peoples to cope and adapt to environmental change. Relationships with place are particularly important in that they provide a foundation for belief systems, identity, knowledge, and livelihood practices that underlie mechanisms through which environmental change is experienced, understood, resisted, and responded to. Many Indigenous peoples also face significant vulnerabilities, whereby place dislocation due to land dispossession, resettlement, and landscape fragmentation has challenged the persistence of Indigenous knowledge systems and undermined Indigenous institutions, compounded by the speed of environmental change. These vulnerabilities are closely linked to colonization, globalization, and development patterns, underlying the importance of tackling these pervasive structural challenges.

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Section: Resilience Factors and Indigenous Peoplesmentioning

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Section: Collective Actionmentioning

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The Resilience of Indigenous Peoples to Environmental Change

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“…As Ajibade (2017) demonstrates in the case of Eko Atlantic city in Nigeria, hierarchizations that define the type of knowledge needed for resilience support elite interests over local knowledge and the values of poor residents. The sampled literature shows this is not a new process and, instead, has deep roots in the settler-colonial project, which establishes norms and legal structures to constrain alternatives (Bell et al, 2019), restrict Indigenous mobility (Whyte et al, 2019), and erode traditional belief systems (Hirons et al, 2018).…”

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Power in resilience and resilience's power in climate change scholarship

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Resilience thinking has undergone profound theoretical developments in recent decades, moving to characterize resilience as a socio‐natural process that requires constant negotiation between a range of actors and institutions. Fundamental to this understanding has been a growing acknowledgment of the role of power in shaping resilience capacities and politics across cultural and geographic contexts. This review article draws on a critical content analysis, applied to a systematic review of recent resilience literature to examine how scholarship has embraced nuanced conceptualizations of how power operates in resilience efforts, to move away from framings that risk reinforcing patterns of marginalization. Advancing a framework inspired by feminist theory and feminist political ecology, we analyze how recent work has presented, documented, and conceptualized how resilience intersects with patterns of inequity. In doing so, we illuminate the importance of knowledge, scale, and subject making in understanding the complex ways in which power and resilience become interlinked. We illustrate how overlooking such complexity may have serious consequences for how socio‐natural challenges and solutions are framed in resilience scholarship and, in turn, how resilience is planned and enacted in practice. Finally, we highlight how recent scholarship is advancing the understandings necessary to make sense of the shifting, contested, and power‐laden nature of resilience. Paying attention to, and building on, such complexity will allow scholarly work to illuminate the ways in which resilience is negotiated within inequitable processes and to address the marginalization of those continuing to bear the brunt of the climate crisis. This article is categorized under: Climate and Development > Social Justice and the Politics of Development

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“…This more comprehensive form of understanding mobility allows us to examine the political role of mobility in terms of Indigenous resistance, ethnic revindication, and territorial dispute [44,45]. We will argue that the translocal mobility of Aymara people in the current urbanized era is also an act of cultural and political self-determination [7].…”

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New Mobility Paradigm and Indigenous Construction of Places: Physical and Symbolic Mobility of Aymara Groups in the Urbanization Process, Chile

Salazar

González

2021

Sustainability

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In the current global scenario, in which mobility has been strongly impacted, it is relevant to highlight certain mobility experiences of Indigenous Latin American peoples, in which new cultural and geographical elements justify revisiting this phenomenon. In this context, the mobility of the Aymara ethnic group offers an opportunity for such a second look. Although the subject has been approached from the perspectives of internal migration processes and physical movement, as in other Latin American cases, studies have omitted some important aspects for its analysis, such as the practices, meanings, and political implications associated with mobility. Based on the new mobility paradigm, this article seeks to strengthen the perspective on mobility by researching rural-urban mobility practices and their meaning regarding the experiences of Aymara people who migrated from the rural municipality of Putre to settle in the city of Arica from the 1950s. At the same time, it is shown that these Aymara mobility practices imply spatiotemporal dynamics that are key for the construction of place, and allow for a widening of base elements that should be considered in the new mobility paradigm. This research is based on five years of ethnography, including mobile accompaniment and semi-structured interviews. This methodological approach has allowed researchers to explore how elements related to physical and symbolic mobility have constantly constructed relational spaces within the Arica and Parinacota region over time. This shows that mobility does not only refer to physical movement, but to politics, emotions, culture, and memory as well. From these results, the article examines and discusses key elements related to physical and symbolic mobility, and their implications in political and intercultural terms.

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Indigenous mobility traditions, colonialism, and the anthropocene

Cited by 60 publications

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The Resilience of Indigenous Peoples to Environmental Change

The Resilience of Indigenous Peoples to Environmental Change

Power in resilience and resilience's power in climate change scholarship

New Mobility Paradigm and Indigenous Construction of Places: Physical and Symbolic Mobility of Aymara Groups in the Urbanization Process, Chile

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