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Decolonizing environmentalism: Addressing ecological and Indigenous colonization through arts-based communication

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  • Geo Takach

    (School of Communication and Culture, 8202Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC, Canada)

  • Kyera Cook

    (8202Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC, Canada)

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This article seeks to advance connecting the two societal priorities of environmental protection and what has been called ‘Indigenous reconciliation’ through arts-based communication (and particularly arts-based research), to help engage and inspire people towards sustaining a healthy planet and a just society. Through lenses of social justice, decolonizing critique and holistic environmental ideologies, this work explores theoretical and practical, real-world intersections of environmentalist, Indigenous and arts-based imperatives and ways of knowing. The goal is twofold: first, to seek to engage readers in viewing the colonization of the planet and its First Peoples as intimately related, and ultimately, to bring together diverse literatures to suggest ideas, language and a model to foster communication aimed at redressing both of those colonialist evils. To acknowledge this intersection of environmental and Indigenous approaches in arts-based settings, the term ‘environmental conciliation’ is proposed and defined as ‘environmental protection in ways that acknowledge, address, and aim to redress imbalances in power among Indigenous people and non-Indigenous settlers honestly, respectfully, openly, creatively and positively.

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  • Geo Takach & Kyera Cook, 2024. "Decolonizing environmentalism: Addressing ecological and Indigenous colonization through arts-based communication," Environmental Values, , vol. 33(5), pages 529-549, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envval:v:33:y:2024:i:5:p:529-549
    DOI: 10.1177/09632719231224115
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    1. Nicole Redvers & Michael Yellow Bird & Diana Quinn & Tyson Yunkaporta & Kerry Arabena, 2020. "Molecular Decolonization: An Indigenous Microcosm Perspective of Planetary Health," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(12), pages 1-13, June.
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    1. Christine J. Winter, 2024. "Beyond domination and extraction," Environmental Values, , vol. 33(5), pages 469-475, October.

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