Indigenous Environmental Education: The Case of Renewable Energy Projects

Lowan-Trudeau, Gregory

doi:10.1080/00131946.2017.1369084

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“…The national survey cited earlier indicates that settlers are not ready to sacrifice their interests to benefit Indigenous people (University of Ottawa, 2015). This perspective gives credence to Indigenous critics who argue that the underlying intention of reconciliation is to maintain the status quo (Alfred, 2015) and that settlers are willing only to accommodate Indigenous claims that do not threaten colonial privileges (Davine et al, 2017;Lowan-Trudeau, 2017). Our analysis also illustrates that resurgence is alive and well, as evidenced by examples of Indigenous people refusing to bend to colonial pressures.…”

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confidence: 59%

“…A few authors attend to the motivations of Indigenous communities engaging in renewable energy. These motivations include aspirations to sovereignty, selfdetermination, and financial autonomy, as observed by Lowan-Trudeau (2017) and Ozog (2012). Dreveskracht (2011) noted that renewable energy projects often align with Indigenous values and ways of living on the land but are also opportunities to generate revenues.…”

Section: Addressing Colonial Legacies: Resurgence and Reconciliationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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New Discourses on Energy Transition as an Opportunity for Reconciliation? Analyzing Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Communications in Media and Policy Documents

Mang‐Benza

Baxter

Fullerton

2021

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This article examines energy issues articulated by Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada and analyzes the energy transition as a locus of reconciliation therein. Using content and discourse analysis of policy documents, white papers, and news media articles, we draw attention to reconciliation and energy discourses before and after 2015, the year that marked the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) report and the Paris Agreement on climate change. We find a three-fold expansion of those discourses, which encompass issues of inclusion and exclusion, dependency, and autonomy, as well as colonial representations of Indigenous people, after 2015. We also find that non-Indigenous voices are more prominent in those conversations. We suggest that the prospects of mutual benefits could turn the energy transition into an opportunity to bring together Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada.

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Section: Addressing Colonial Legacies: Resurgence and Reconciliationmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Discourses on Energy Transition as an Opportunity for Reconciliation? Analyzing Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Communications in Media and Policy Documents

Mang‐Benza

Baxter

Fullerton

2021

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“…Again, we can deduce from the literature another opportunity to understand how place as locale is conceptualized in how government policy and decision-making machinery influences smallholder farmers' adaptation strategies. According to geographers, place is continuously shaped by people with power and authority (Lowan-Trudeau, 2017;Upham et al, 2018). This reviewwork noted that in the West African nation of Ghana, cocoa farmers were able to invest in shade trees as an adaptation strategy (Abdulai et al, 2018) because they received government incentives and subsidies to boost cocoa production due to cocoa's importance as a foreign exchange earner to Philip Tetteh Quarshie Ph.D. Geography + International Development Studies, Department of Geography Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph 20 | P a g e Email: pquarshi@uoguelph.ca|Twitter: @PhilipTQuarshi1 the economy (MoFA, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring the concept of place in the literature on smallholder farmers and climate change adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Quarshie¹

2021

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This critical review paper expands on the meaning of place. It opens a new narrative on how the geographic concept of place is conceptualized in smallholder farmers and climate change adaptation literature in Sub-Saharan Africa. The review suggested that place is not only the 'where' of a location but a location geographically connected and interdependent to illustrate how smallholder farmers' experiences in adapting to climate shocks interact with global efforts such as improving food security, eliminating poverty and building sustainable rural livelihood. Through the various climate change adaptation strategies exhibited by different farmer groups, the paper demonstrated that people in places have the agency to make choices that control their destinies irrespective of whatever global force overwhelms them. The paper argues sense of place expressed through ecological place meaning shapes people's intuition, beliefs, actions and experiences as illustrated by smallholders' perception of the determinant and barriers to effective adaptation strategies. The ecological place meaning also influences the 'glocalization' of climate impact on agroecological-based livelihoods at different locations and how maladaptive outcomes are perceived. Place gives people identity by (re)shaping actions and experiences and vice versa. There is an undeviating relationship between power, place and people's experience. Further exploration of the relationship between lifeworld experiences, people, and power is central in understanding the meaning of place to smallholder farmers and climate change interaction

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“…Again, we can deduce from the literature another opportunity to understand how place as locale is conceptualized in how government policy and decision-making machinery influences smallholder farmers' adaptation strategies. According to geographers, place is continuously shaped by people with power and authority (Lowan-Trudeau, 2017;Upham et al, 2018). This review-work noted that in the West African nation of Ghana, cocoa farmers were able to invest in shade trees as an adaptation strategy (Abdulai et al, 2018) because they received (Niang et al, 2014) • The concept was used to illustrate the primary determinant of smallholder farmers' adaptation strategies to climate change.e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring the concept of place in the literature on smallholder farmers and climate change adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Quarshie

2021

South African Geographical Journal

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This critical review paper expands on the meaning of place. It opens a new narrative on how the geographic concept of place is conceptualized in smallholder farmers and climate change adaptation literature in Sub-Saharan Africa. The review suggested that place is not only the 'where' of a location but a location geographically connected and interdependent to illustrate how smallholder farmers' experiences in adapting to climate shocks interact with global efforts such as improving food security, eliminating poverty and building sustainable rural livelihood. Through the various climate change adaptation strategies exhibited by different farmer groups, the paper demonstrated that people in places have the agency to make choices that control their destinies irrespective of whatever global force overwhelms them. The paper argues sense of place expressed through ecological place meaning shapes people's intuition, beliefs, actions and experiences as illustrated by smallholders' perception of the determinant and barriers to effective adaptation strategies. The ecological place meaning also influences the 'glocalization' of climate impact on agroecological-based livelihoods at different locations and how maladaptive outcomes are perceived. Place gives people identity by (re)shaping actions and experiences and vice versa. There is an undeviating relationship between power, place and people's experience. Further exploration of the relationship between lifeworld experiences, people, and power is central in understanding the meaning of place in smallholder farmers and climate change interaction.

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Indigenous Environmental Education: The Case of Renewable Energy Projects

Cited by 29 publications

References 20 publications

New Discourses on Energy Transition as an Opportunity for Reconciliation? Analyzing Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Communications in Media and Policy Documents

New Discourses on Energy Transition as an Opportunity for Reconciliation? Analyzing Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Communications in Media and Policy Documents

Exploring the concept of place in the literature on smallholder farmers and climate change adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Exploring the concept of place in the literature on smallholder farmers and climate change adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa

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