Procedural vulnerability: Understanding environmental change in a remote indigenous community

Veland, Siri; Howitt, Richard; Dominey‐Howes, Dale; Thomalla, Frank; Houston, Donna

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.10.009

Cited by 108 publications

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“…Risk assessment conventionally focuses on material property or human health and easily marginalises cultural dimensions of risk (although see Göbel, 2001), erasing existential and cosmological risks that have origin in how well people maintain kinship with sentient and responsive phenomena in landscapes and weather (Stoffle and Arnold, 2008;Veland et al, 2013). In setting out to limit risks to Indigenous lives, current discourses of risk, exposure, vulnerability and resilience, like longer-standing discourses of service provision and access, privilege non-Indigenous notions of stability in relationships to place and belonging.…”

Section: Risk Landscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intercultural capacity deficits: Contested geographies of coexistence in natural resource management

Howitt

Kim

Suchet‐Pearson

et al. 2013

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Focusing on the coexistence of competing and contested interests in intercultural natural resource management (NRM) systems in Australia and Malaysia, this paper explores the ways in which ontological pluralism and the interplay of socio-cultural, political-economic and biophysical influences shape NRM systems. We aim to foster a discursive space in which to reframe the challenges of capacity building in the rapidly changing spaces of intercultural NRM systems. The paper synthesizes the conceptual arguments of field research to conclude that capacity deficits of dominant institutions, processes and knowledge systems drive many systemic failures in land and sea management affecting Indigenous peoples. We advocate urgent action to build intercultural competence and new capacities and competencies in those institutions. The paper reframes intercultural NRM in terms of coexistence and invites wider debate about these 'new geographies of coexistence' in intercultural NRM systems.

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Section: Risk Landscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intercultural capacity deficits: Contested geographies of coexistence in natural resource management

Howitt

Kim

Suchet‐Pearson

et al. 2013

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“…Thus, our purpose here is necessarily simultaneously provocative and analytical; philosophical and methodological. Having said that, we also suggest that failure to recognise and respond to the complex simultaneities of people-toenvironment, people-to-people and people-tocosmos relationships in disaster recovery settings risks putting Indigenous communities into harm's way at the behest of racialised, ignorant, or self-interested ideas of what is 'best' for communities and cultures already marginalised and disadvantaged by historical processes of colonial dispossession, continuing occupation, and contemporary exclusion (Howitt, 2012;Veland et al, 2013) (Fig. 1).…”

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The idea of ‘Country’: Reframing post‐disaster recovery in Indigenous Taiwan settings

Hsu

Howitt

Chieh

2014

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“…There are also significant impediments for any social group in using complex climate adaptation information to develop plans unless that information resonates with how they frame the issue (Groffman et al, 2010). Histories and contexts of colonisation also influence how issues are framed (Howitt et al, 2012;Porter & Barry, 2016;Veland et al, 2013). Histories and contexts of colonisation also influence how issues are framed (Howitt et al, 2012;Porter & Barry, 2016;Veland et al, 2013).…”

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Protecting what is left after colonisation: embedding climate adaptation planning in traditional owner narratives

Lyons

Hill

Deshong

et al. 2020

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In this case study, Traditional Owners in the Great Barrier Reef identified that protecting what is left of Indigenous material culture and socio-cultural relationships provides the best approach to climate adaptation planning. Protecting what is left supports decolonising and strengthens Indigenous customary practices and governance, thereby supporting their strategies for cultural renewal and survival. AbstractClimate change is disproportionally affecting Indigenous peoples' livelihoods across the globe. Despite this fact, climate adaptation planning and responses are not immediate concerns for most Indigenous people, whose key challenges are deeply embedded in colonial history. Through collaborative research centred on climate adaptation planning with the Yuibera and Koinmerburra Traditional Owner groups on the Great Barrier Reef catchments, we demonstrate that Traditional Owners' primary concerns are in aligning the climate adaptation opportunity with their own strategies for Indigenous cultural renewal and survival. Their Indigenous identity generates a responsibility to protect cultural landscapes, sites, and their connections with these places. In this case study, to "protect what is left" of Indigenous material culture and socio-cultural relationships emerged as the best approach to climate adaptation planning, providing both the decolonisation narrative and the means to strengthen their Indigenous practices. Planning for climate change adaptation is useful for Indigenous peoples when it supports decolonising, strengthens Indigenous customary practices, and recognises customary governance.

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Procedural vulnerability: Understanding environmental change in a remote indigenous community

Cited by 108 publications

References 42 publications

Intercultural capacity deficits: Contested geographies of coexistence in natural resource management

Intercultural capacity deficits: Contested geographies of coexistence in natural resource management

The idea of ‘Country’: Reframing post‐disaster recovery in Indigenous Taiwan settings

Protecting what is left after colonisation: embedding climate adaptation planning in traditional owner narratives

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