Abstract
With climate change the defining crisis of our time, compelling new narratives are urgently needed to reshape modernity’s ‘progress narrative’ paradigm that privileges mind over body, heart and spirit, creating a binarized nature-culture opposition that overlooks Indigenous ways of knowing. In this UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a global rallying cry to heal our planet, Indigenous Peoples are at the forefront of food insecurity, one of the top crises facing humanity with far-reaching geopolitical security implications, yet they hold much of the wisdom needed to protect our finite planet. While Indigenous ecological knowledges are recognized as critically important for mitigating global climate change and food insecurity, Indigenous Peoples see their knowledges and practices being misunderstood and misappropriated when factored into the prevailing science-centric food security solutions. Indigenous Peoples are seeking to promote more holistic understandings needed to transition from neoliberalism’s global macroeconomics and extractivism to more resilient, biodiverse, small-scale local economies able to support sustainable livelihoods and restore the Earth’s ecosystems. In this visual narrative, we share learnings from research with Indigenous communities in the Amazon and Andes of Peru, land-based knowledges and practices that can inform the radical paradigm shift, ecoliteracies and ecopedagogies needed for addressing the global climate crisis that threatens all life on our finite planet.
Presenters
Pat O'RileyHonorary Associate Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia, Canada Peter Cole
Associate Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia, Canada
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Multiple Legacies: Heritage, Traditions, Local Ecologies, Knowledge, Values, Protection
KEYWORDS
INDIGENOUS AGROECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGES, CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION, LAND-BASED ECONOMIES, ECOLITERACIES
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