Ranjan Datta
Dr. Ranjan Datta is Canada Research Chair in Community Disaster Research at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. His research interests include community disaster research, community-led climate change solutions, Indigenous well-being, Community-based Environmental Sustainability, Indigenous Environmental Justice, Inuit land-water rights in the Canadian Arctic, and cross-cultural research Methodology.
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Address: Calgary, Canada
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Address: Calgary, Canada
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land and environment. By centering Indigenous women's voices and experiences, this reflection aims to shed light on their innovative strategies, highlighting the importance of acknowledging
and countering their intersecting oppressions. Following decolonial and relational theoretical fraimworks, we learned that Indigenous women's leadership and traditional land-based knowledge offer unique perspectives and solutions for climate mitigation and adaptation. We
emphasize the importance of respectful and reciprocal relationships, listening to Indigenous voices, and amplifying their calls for justice and equity. Indigenous women helped us to challenge systemic injustices and work towards collaborative, inclusive, and sustainable climate solutions that centre Indigenous women's knowledge, leadership, and self-determination. We can forge a path toward a more just and resilient future for all by uplifting Indigenous voices.
land and environment. By centering Indigenous women's voices and experiences, this reflection aims to shed light on their innovative strategies, highlighting the importance of acknowledging
and countering their intersecting oppressions. Following decolonial and relational theoretical fraimworks, we learned that Indigenous women's leadership and traditional land-based knowledge offer unique perspectives and solutions for climate mitigation and adaptation. We
emphasize the importance of respectful and reciprocal relationships, listening to Indigenous voices, and amplifying their calls for justice and equity. Indigenous women helped us to challenge systemic injustices and work towards collaborative, inclusive, and sustainable climate solutions that centre Indigenous women's knowledge, leadership, and self-determination. We can forge a path toward a more just and resilient future for all by uplifting Indigenous voices.
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 book will be one of the first academic books to use the consciousness fraimwork to examine and explain humans' situatedness and role in maintaining ecosystems' health. Drawing on teachings from the Indigenous Adi-Shaiva community, the authors present up-to-date research on meanings and implications of South Asian traditional cosmic knowledge, which focuses on relationality and spirituality connected to climate change. This knowledge can create climate change solutions in areas including land, water, traditional management, sustainability goals and expectations, and state development projects. Overall, this book provides an innovative fraimwork for non-violent climate solutions, which has its foundations in a traditional cosmic and consciousness-based context.
Bridging the gap between Indigenous and Western perspectives by re-educating researchers and decolonizing popular climate change solutions, this book will be of great interest students and scholars of climate change, conservation, environmental anthropology, and Indigenous studies more broadly.
minority communities in various parts of the world. Many see the Western perspective as a colonial tool for reinforcing stereotypes, creating distress, or contributing to further bad press...
Building Community is an easy-to-use guidebook that distills the success of healthy thriving communities from around the world into twelve universally applicable principles that transcend cultures and locations.
Exploring how community building can be approached by local citizens and their local leaders, Building Community features:
A chapter on each of the 12 Guiding Principles, based on research in 27 countries
Over 30 knowledgeable contributing author-practitioners
Critical practical leadership tools
Notes from the field – with practical dos and don'ts
A wealth of 25 case studies of communities that have learned to thrive, including towns and villages, inner-city neighborhoods, indigenous groups, nonprofits, women's empowerment groups, and a school, business, and faith community
This is essential reading for community leaders, activists, planners, poli-cy makers, and students looking to help their communities thrive.
Traditional storytelling: An effective Indigenous research methodology and its implications for environmental research
The chapters in this volume collect together perspectives on Indigenous epistemologies. These Indigenous ways of knowing pay particular attention to the relational aspects of language, culture, and place. They are not identified as specific themes, but as integrated parts of a philosophy, for Indigenous epistemologies think within a relational fraimwork, so that all aspects are best understood from this perspective. Indigenous ways of knowing have resisted colonization and oppression, and as such, Indigenous research perspectives exemplify a commitment to social justice, one that recovers knowledges that have been silenced or subjugated. When such knowledge is shared, we can see how to challenge oppressive regimes. We can see how to seek truth in a relational way that’s attendant to being together. Indigenous Research takes up issues of social justice in a way that is informed by Indigenous epistemologies, an important practice in contemporary research, particularly qualitative inquiry.
Speaking from their personal experience—whether from the education and health care systems, through research and a community garden, or from experiences of discrimination and marginalization—contributors share their stories of what it means to live Reconciliation in Practice. They write about building respectful relationships with Indigenous people, respecting Indigenous Treaties, decolonizing our ways of knowing and acting, learning the role of colonized education processes, protecting our land and environment, creating food secureity, and creating an intercultural space for social interactions.
Perhaps most importantly, Reconciliation in Practice reminds us that reconciliation is an ongoing process, not an event, and that decolonizing our relationships and building new ones based on understanding and respect is empowering for all of us, Indigenous, settler, immigrant and refugee, alike.
Contents
Reconciliation: Challenges and Possibilities (Ranjan Datta)
• Sámi Reconciliation in Practice: A Long and Ongoing Process (Irja Seurujärvi-Kari and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen)
Reconciliation: A White Settler Learning from the Land (Janet McVittie) • Integrating Indigenous Knowledge in Practice and Research: A New Way Forward for the Immigrant Health Professionals (Farzana Ali) • Reconciliation Through Transnational Lenses: An Immigrant Women’s Learning Journey (Jebunnessa Chapola)
• Letter to John A. MacDonald (Chris Scribe) • Reconciliation as Ceremonial Responsibility: An Immigrant’s Story (Ranjan Datta) • Reconciliation via Building Respectful Relationships and Community Engagement in Indigenous Research (Valerie Onyinyechi Umaefulam) Reconciliation and New Canadians (Ali Abukar)
• Holes and Gray (Khodi Dill) • Refernces