Book chapter
Transforming the Planetary Health Crisis Through an Indigenous Land-Based Meta-Narrative
Sustainable development goals series, pp.273-284
Springer Cham
01/2025
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Abstract
Our current biodiversity, pollution, climate change, and pandemic crises are deep and complex yet have similar underpinnings and a clear road map out. Indigenous Peoples have long asserted the importance of their enduring and dynamic relationship to ancestral lands, seas, waterways, and wildlife as a protective road map for people and the planet. As we are all dynamic beings with the potential for direct kinship relationships to all planetary elements ranging from the micro to the macro level, it leaves open the possibility of large-scale and emergent positive change. This means that as action-based planetary relatives, we can all enact great change around us by precipitating these emergent processes within our own bodies and in the environment around us. Therefore, we provide an interconnected narrative that centers Land and Country, our Ancestors, and story as we consider the path we need to walk going forward. We premise that the story we need to co-walk is an ecologically derived one with the complexity of the world expressed through the simplicity of being of Nature.
Details
- Title
- Transforming the Planetary Health Crisis Through an Indigenous Land-Based Meta-Narrative
- Creators
- Nicole Redvers - University of Western OntarioKelly Menzel - Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia
- Publication Details
- Sustainable development goals series, pp.273-284
- Publisher
- Springer Cham
- Identifiers
- 991013246660702368
- Copyright
- © 2024 The Author(s)
- Academic Unit
- Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter