Indigenous Resurgence: Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice

From the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s resistance against the Dakota Access pipeline to the Nepalese Newar community’s protest of the Fast Track Road Project, Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air. By reminding us of the fundamental importance of placing Indigenous politics, histories, and ontologies at the center of our social movements, Indigenous Resurgence positions environmental justice within historical, social, political, and economic contexts, exploring the troubling relationship between colonial and environmental violence and reframing climate change and environmental degradation through an anticolonial lens.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Indigenous Resurgence, Decolonization, and Movements for Environmental Justice Jaskiran Dhillon Chapter 1. Mino-Mnaamodzawin: Achieving Indigenous Environmental Justice in Canada Deborah McGregor Chapter 2. Decolonizing Development in Diné Bikeyah: Resource Extraction, Anti-Capitalism, and Relational Futures Melanie K. Yazzie Chapter 3. Fighting Invasive Infrastructures: Indigenous Relations against Pipelines Anne Spice Chapter 4. Unsettling the Land: Indigeneity, Ontology, and Hybridity in Settler Colonialism Paul Berne Burow, Samara Brock, and Michael R. Dove Chapter 5. Hunting for Justice: An Indigenous Critique of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation Lauren Eichler and David Baumeister Chapter 6. Righting Names: The Importance of Native American Philosophies of Naming for Environmental Justice Rebekah Sinclair Chapter 7. Damaging Environments: Land, Settler Colonialism, and Security for Indigenous Peoples Wilfrid Greaves Chapter 8. Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice Kyle Whyte Chapter 9. Contradictions of Solidarity: Whiteness, Settler Coloniality, and the Mainstream Environmental Movement Joe Curnow and Anjali Helferty Index

About the Author :
Jaskiran Dhillon is an Associate Professor of Global Studies and Anthropology at The New School in New York City. Her work has appeared in publications including The Guardian, Cultural Anthropology, Social Texts, Truthout, The Nation, Globalizations, Feminist Formations, and Decolonization. She is the author of Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention (University of Toronto Press, 2017) and co-editor of Standing With Standing Rock: Voices from the #NODAPL Movement (University of Minnesota Press, 2019).

Review :
“Although the essays were already published a while ago, they have not lost any of their relevance, and one can only wish that thanks to the volume being available through Open Access many people will discover this topical publication.” • Amerindian Research