Building structures of environmental repossession to reclaim land, self-determination and Indigenous wellness

Nightingale, Elana; Richmond, Chantelle

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102725

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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

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et al. 2023

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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“…(Hallowes & Munnik, 2020, 210) This move by the KECG forms an "environmental repossession" which describes the processes of responses by local communities based on their local needs. Through self-determination over their land, indigenous inhabitants are claiming rights to their material resources and the history, knowledge and responsibilities that are intrinsic to these spaces (Nightingale & Chantelle, 2022). These efforts have also assisted in the empowerment of youth in achieving agency.…”

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Analysis of the Imaginative Geographies of Climate Smart Mining and their re‐imagination by the Khuthala environmental care group (KECG) in Mpumalanga province, South Africa

Nair

2023

J of Intl Development

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The World Bank has been inserting capital in various developing states at the onset of the decolonization period. The nature of this involvement within the context of extractives in these spaces remains understudied through the postcolonial lens. This study fills this void by examining the World Bank's Climate Smart Mining and counter‐responses by the Khuthala Environmental Care Group. Utilizing Said's Imaginative Geographies and discourse analysis, this study shows that the World Bank's CSM documents reproduce the development rhetoric of the 1950s and these values are not shared by local communities. This research suggests that the World Bank needs to substantively alter its agenda for meaningful social and ecological reform.

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“…Indigenous scholars and collectives have long identified the specificity and spatiality of literal relations to land, ancestors and other species as central to obligations (e.g. Watts 2013; Simpson 2017): Daigle (2018) argues Indigenous resurgence has been an explicitly spatial project of reactivating kinship relations to and with water’s relations; Nightingale and Richmond (2022) describe ‘environmental repossession’ by Indigenous peoples as the joint reclamation of territory and renewal of values and responsibilities; Tynan (2021) argues that Indigenous ethics of relationality derive from active kinship with land – where the specificity of those relations and obligations accrues to respective Indigenous peoples. In settler colonial contexts, these obligations are discharged in contexts where extractivist ethics by the state enclose and undermine Indigenous sovereignty (Curley and Lister 2020; Estes 2019; Yazzie 2018).…”

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Geography and ethics I: Placing injustice in the Anthropocene

Schmidt

2022

Progress in Human Geography

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This report on geography and ethics focuses on the conditions of ethics. It identifies the ethical stakes of how accounts of unequal anthropogenic impacts on the Earth are specified with respect to both injustice and to what are deemed viable futures. It centres arguments of Indigenous and Black scholars regarding kinship and intersectionality, and respective ethical practices of struggle, resurgence and rebellion against the mutual oppression of peoples of colour and the environment. I identify challenges these forms of grounded practices pose to more-than-human geographies and urge an approach to understanding ethical conditions as concrete concerns.

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Building structures of environmental repossession to reclaim land, self-determination and Indigenous wellness

Cited by 12 publications

References 39 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

Analysis of the Imaginative Geographies of Climate Smart Mining and their re‐imagination by the Khuthala environmental care group (KECG) in Mpumalanga province, South Africa

Geography and ethics I: Placing injustice in the Anthropocene

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