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
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:
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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