This edited volume explores the crucial intersections between Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge (ILK), sustainability, settler colonialism, and the ongoing environmental crisis.
Contributors from cross-cultural communities, including Indigenous, settlers, immigrants, and refugee communities, discuss why ILK and practice hold great potential for tackling our current environmental crises, particularly addressing the settler colonialism that contributes towards the environmental challenges faced in the world. The authors offer insights into sustainable practices, biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation, and sustainable land management and centre Indigenous perspectives on ILK as a space to practise, preserve, and promote Indigenous cultures. With case studies spanning topics as diverse as land acknowledgements, land-based learning, Indigenous-led water governance, and birth evacuation, this book shows how our responsibility for ILK can benefit collectively by fostering a more inclusive, sustainable, and interconnected world. Through the promotion of Indigenous perspectives and responsibility towards land and community, this volume advocates for a shift in paradigm towards more inclusive and sustainable approaches to environmental sustainability.
This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental sociology, postcolonial studies, and Indigenous studies.
This edited volume explores the crucial intersections between Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge (ILK), sustainability, settler colonialism, and the ongoing environmental crisis.
Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction - Ranjan Datta, Jebunnessa Chapola and John Bosco
Acharibasam
Chapter 2: Walking in My Tpuna Steps: Land-based Resurgence with Women
Stories in Aotearoa, New Zeeland - Kerri Cleaver
Chapter 3: Traditional Storytelling as Land-based Heritage: Reflections from
Indigenous Perspectives in Northern Malawi - Jean Kayira and Tamara
Mkandawire
Chapter 4: Soulfully in Movement on the Land, as a Shiibaashkaigan
Expressionist: Embodied Knowing and Anishinaabe Dance - Karen
Pheasant-Neganigwane
Chapter 5: Indigenous Land Sovereignty and Food Security in Saskatchewan,
Canada - Marlin Legare
Chapter 6: Land-based Learning and Its Implications for Preserving
Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Ghana - Raphael Ane Atanga, John Bosco
Acharibasam, Sampson Kwasi Jachan, Mawuli Kwasi Gafli and Godfred Adjei Poku
Chapter 7: Land-Based Learning as a Methodology for Understanding Indigenous
Water Governance - John Bosco Acharibasam, Ranjan Datta, Margot Hurlbert and
Angelina Weenie
Chapter 8: The Impact of the Climate Crisis on Forced Migration among
Indigenous Communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh -
Arifatul Kibria and Ranjan Datta
Chapter 9: Traditional Bengali Land-based Beadwork A Form of Creating
Belongingness for a Racialized Immigrant Woman in Canada - Bipasha Mondol and
Ranjan Datta
Chapter 10: Taking Responsibility in Land-based Learning from a Racialized
Womans Perspective in Canada - Navi Toor
Chapter 11: Decolonizing the Meaning of Land Acknowledgement: From and within
Treat 7 Indigenous Perspectives, Canada - Ryan Whitford
Chapter 12: Conservation Ethos of Indigenous Munda Community vis ą vis Land
Grabbing Battles in Bangladeshs Sundarban Mangroves - Sujoy Subroto and
Conny Davidsen
Chapter 13: Unlearning to Relearning: Journey in Co-creating Space for
Decolonization and Reconciliation - Makayla Krause
Chapter 14: Creating Safe and Inclusive Spaces for Communities at Risk to Be
Involved in Land-based Eco-action - Baneen Al-Sachit
Chapter 15: Responsibility in Indigenous Land-based Knowledge and
Environmental Sustainability - Ranjan Datta, Jebunnessa Chapola and John
Bosco Acharibasam
Index
Ranjan Datta is a Canada Research chair in Community Disaster Research at the Department of Humanities, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Ranjans research interests include advocating for critical anti-racist perspectives on community disaster research, Indigenous environmental sustainability, community-led climate change solutions, and decolonial community research. His current research program is supported by his existing network of Indigenous, visible minority immigrants and refugees, Black communities, scholars, students, practitioners, and professionals in Canada and beyond. In Dattas community service activities, he has been involved with social well-being and justice movements.
Jebunnessa Chapola serves as a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina, Canada. Dr. Jebunnessa Chapola is a settler woman of colour trained as an anti-racist, decolonial feminist educator. Her research spans environmental reconciliation, decolonial feminist research, transnational feminism, anti-racist theory, and Indigenous women-led climate change solutions, reflecting her commitment to cross-cultural responsibility, gender equity, social justice, and environmental resilience.
John Bosco Acharibasam is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at Mount Royal University in Canada and is dedicated to addressing social and environmental justice concerns within Black and other marginalized communities. His overarching research objective is to mitigate environmental vulnerabilities and health disparities among Black, Indigenous, and marginalized populations. As an immigrant scholar, John recognizes the imperative of fostering cross-cultural connections among BIPOC communities in Saskatchewan, Canada. His scholarly pursuits encompass decolonizing methodologies, climate change, public health, and anti-racism initiatives.
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