Indigenous Perspectives on the Non-Human World

Sunday, 27 February 2022 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Photo of Sarah at Uluru

This show features Sarah on Indigenous critiques of the movie Don’t Look Up (Netflix) and why Indigenous knowledge is so important in informing animal rights and environmental movements. Sarah is a Maori wahine living on Dharawal Country and Criminology researcher. This episode is a follow-up to our previous show ‘What are the Most Effective Individual Actions for the Climate?’ https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode-202201231300/what-are-most-effective-individual-actions-climate

 

 Links from Sarah:

 For further info on the significance of Mauna Kea: www.protectmaunakea.net

 To understand Land Back priorities/actions in a Turtle Island context: www.landback.org

 Old media articles on the eviction of Indigenous tribes from their ancestral land in India:

 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/25/land-grab-tribal-people-india-adivasi

 https://www.iwgia.org/en/india/3314-millions-of-indigenous-peoples-facing-eviction-india.html

 Australia's first Indigenous youth climate network: www.seedmob.org.au

 

 Links from Nick:

 Examples of discussions around Indigenous critiques of Don’t Look Up and/or Indigenous contributions to the environmental movement:

 https://twitter.com/uahikea/status/1477450954026799105

 https://twitter.com/kenzieeharriss/status/1476819693105291268

 https://www.climate-uni.com/post/climate-change-indigenous-knowledge-learning-from-losing-alaska

 https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/booked-indigenous-resistance-is-post-apocalyptic-with-nick-estes

 Todd, Zoe. 2016. “An Indigenous Feminist’s Take on the Ontological Turn: ‘Ontology’ is Just Another Word for Colonialism.” Journal of Historical Sociology 29:1, 4-22.

 Search ‘#dontlookup indigenous’ on Twitter for more of these discussions.

 

 Sources on whiteness in the environmental movement:

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/30/green-groups-too-white-too-male-other-sectors-report

 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/numbers-don-t-lie-green-movement-remains-overwhelmingly-white-report-n1253972

 

 Here is the graph on increased emissions despite major climate agreements that was mentioned at the start of the show: https://twitter.com/kickitinthesun/status/1488544782112673795?t=c5MlJefkug_KgOlkt3RrQA&s=19

 

 You can hear Jon, a listener of our show, discuss being Maori AND vegan on a previous episode of our show: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode-201901271300/jon-pawson-%E2%80%93-maori-veganism

 

 You can also hear Nick discuss sentience and the non-human world (among many other topics) on episode 88 of the Sentientism podcast: https://pod.link/1540408008/episode/9f3539f037bab81c9d50e3493925b652?fbclid=IwAR1V0fB0JmLZbaifYwBBKTcMH1YDxP-DX1LYHdyFZ_wOV6Geh1LGzaZe3YY

 

 Music:

 Animal liberation by Los Fastidios: https://www.losfastidios.net/

 Shadows by Briggs ft. Troy Cassar-Daley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQOjepa-IUA

 

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