Envisioning Indigenous Models for Social and Ecological Change in the Anthropocene
Indigenous societies provide alternatives to hegemonic social institutions that global capitalism spread around the world, contributing to human caused environmental degradation called the Anthropocene, coterminous with the development of the modern world-system. In this work we describe Indigenou...
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Indigenous societies provide alternatives to hegemonic social institutions that global capitalism spread around the world, contributing to human caused environmental degradation called the Anthropocene, coterminous with the development of the modern world-system. In this work we describe Indigenous communities using ten social spheres, that balance human needs through ecological mindfulness, including spirituality, and then we model how these social spheres can be adapted to contemporary world-systems using a radical imaginary, building off Indigenous works by Fenelon (2015; 2016), social perspectives of Pellow (2017) and Norgaard (2019), and environmental geospatial sciences (Lui, Springer, and Wagner 2008; Jankowski 2009). We identify four social constructs from Indigenous peoples—(1) decision-making, (2) land tenure and resource management, (3) economic and (4) community—which we model for societies in world-systems through the ten imagined social spheres, to present foundations that empower communities to resist the coming climate change futures of the Anthropocene.
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| spelling | doaj.art-c72a842b44b2442da1f620e46886d5022022-12-22T03:34:17ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghJournal of World-Systems Research1076-156X2020-08-0126210.5195/jwsr.2020.996Envisioning Indigenous Models for Social and Ecological Change in the AnthropoceneJames Fenelon0Jennifer Alford1California State University, San BernardinoCalifornia State University San Bernardino Indigenous societies provide alternatives to hegemonic social institutions that global capitalism spread around the world, contributing to human caused environmental degradation called the Anthropocene, coterminous with the development of the modern world-system. In this work we describe Indigenous communities using ten social spheres, that balance human needs through ecological mindfulness, including spirituality, and then we model how these social spheres can be adapted to contemporary world-systems using a radical imaginary, building off Indigenous works by Fenelon (2015; 2016), social perspectives of Pellow (2017) and Norgaard (2019), and environmental geospatial sciences (Lui, Springer, and Wagner 2008; Jankowski 2009). We identify four social constructs from Indigenous peoples—(1) decision-making, (2) land tenure and resource management, (3) economic and (4) community—which we model for societies in world-systems through the ten imagined social spheres, to present foundations that empower communities to resist the coming climate change futures of the Anthropocene. http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/996Indigenous peoplesearth scienceenvironmentclimate changeimagined world |
| spellingShingle | James Fenelon Jennifer Alford Envisioning Indigenous Models for Social and Ecological Change in the Anthropocene Journal of World-Systems Research Indigenous peoples earth science environment climate change imagined world |
| title | Envisioning Indigenous Models for Social and Ecological Change in the Anthropocene |
| title_full | Envisioning Indigenous Models for Social and Ecological Change in the Anthropocene |
| title_fullStr | Envisioning Indigenous Models for Social and Ecological Change in the Anthropocene |
| title_full_unstemmed | Envisioning Indigenous Models for Social and Ecological Change in the Anthropocene |
| title_short | Envisioning Indigenous Models for Social and Ecological Change in the Anthropocene |
| title_sort | envisioning indigenous models for social and ecological change in the anthropocene |
| topic | Indigenous peoples earth science environment climate change imagined world |
| url | http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/996 |
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