On the possibility of decolonising planetary health: exploring new geographies for collaboration
Summary: Decolonial planetary health aspires to centre the diversity and importance of Indigenous thought and stewardship. In this Viewpoint, we explore research in planetary health across holistic worldviews and western scientific approaches. We base our examination of decolonising interventions in...
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| author | Dawn Hoogeveen, PhD Clifford G Atleo, PhD Lyana Patrick, PhD Angel M Kennedy, MPH Maëve Leduc, BA Margot W Parkes, ProfPhD Tim K Takaro, ProfMD Maya K Gislason, PhD |
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| description | Summary: Decolonial planetary health aspires to centre the diversity and importance of Indigenous thought and stewardship. In this Viewpoint, we explore research in planetary health across holistic worldviews and western scientific approaches. We base our examination of decolonising interventions in planetary health by exploring how global trajectories play out in British Columbia, Canada. A central part of this analysis is highlighting intercultural thinking to promote an anti-colonial, anti-racist, and reciprocal approach to climate change and global health inequities across geographical space and within planetary health discourse. Our perspective encompasses an asset-based examination, which focuses on the Indigenous scholarship in planetary health that is already underway and considers how rigorous engagement with epistemic and geographical diversity can strengthen and advance planetary health. This is a place-based response to planetary health, as British Columbia experiences climate catastrophes that are impacting whole communities, cutting through major transportation systems, disrupting supply chains, and creating a further burden on public health agencies and authorities that are spread thin by COVID-19 response. We argue for a progressive acknowledgment of decolonising work that is pushing research and practice in planetary health forward. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fc31ce09dc4d49e1a17656bf5ed88d0a2023-02-08T04:17:22ZengElsevierThe Lancet Planetary Health2542-51962023-02-0172e179e183On the possibility of decolonising planetary health: exploring new geographies for collaborationDawn Hoogeveen, PhD0Clifford G Atleo, PhD1Lyana Patrick, PhD2Angel M Kennedy, MPH3Maëve Leduc, BA4Margot W Parkes, ProfPhD5Tim K Takaro, ProfMD6Maya K Gislason, PhD7Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; Correspondence to: Dr Dawn Hoogeveen, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby VA 1S6, BC, CanadaSchool of Resources and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, CanadaFaculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, CanadaFaculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, CanadaFaculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, CanadaSchool of Health Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC CanadaFaculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, CanadaFaculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, CanadaSummary: Decolonial planetary health aspires to centre the diversity and importance of Indigenous thought and stewardship. In this Viewpoint, we explore research in planetary health across holistic worldviews and western scientific approaches. We base our examination of decolonising interventions in planetary health by exploring how global trajectories play out in British Columbia, Canada. A central part of this analysis is highlighting intercultural thinking to promote an anti-colonial, anti-racist, and reciprocal approach to climate change and global health inequities across geographical space and within planetary health discourse. Our perspective encompasses an asset-based examination, which focuses on the Indigenous scholarship in planetary health that is already underway and considers how rigorous engagement with epistemic and geographical diversity can strengthen and advance planetary health. This is a place-based response to planetary health, as British Columbia experiences climate catastrophes that are impacting whole communities, cutting through major transportation systems, disrupting supply chains, and creating a further burden on public health agencies and authorities that are spread thin by COVID-19 response. We argue for a progressive acknowledgment of decolonising work that is pushing research and practice in planetary health forward.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519622003345 |
| spellingShingle | Dawn Hoogeveen, PhD Clifford G Atleo, PhD Lyana Patrick, PhD Angel M Kennedy, MPH Maëve Leduc, BA Margot W Parkes, ProfPhD Tim K Takaro, ProfMD Maya K Gislason, PhD On the possibility of decolonising planetary health: exploring new geographies for collaboration The Lancet Planetary Health |
| title | On the possibility of decolonising planetary health: exploring new geographies for collaboration |
| title_full | On the possibility of decolonising planetary health: exploring new geographies for collaboration |
| title_fullStr | On the possibility of decolonising planetary health: exploring new geographies for collaboration |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the possibility of decolonising planetary health: exploring new geographies for collaboration |
| title_short | On the possibility of decolonising planetary health: exploring new geographies for collaboration |
| title_sort | on the possibility of decolonising planetary health exploring new geographies for collaboration |
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