Decolonising Climate Change: A Call for Beyond-Human Imaginaries and Knowledge Generation

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aut.relation.endpage54
aut.relation.issue2en_NZ
aut.relation.journaleTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropicsen_NZ
aut.relation.startpage32
aut.relation.volume20en_NZ
aut.researcherEnari, Dion
dc.contributor.authorChao, Sen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorEnari, Den_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-15T02:03:48Z
dc.date.available2021-09-15T02:03:48Z
dc.description.abstractThis article calls for transdisciplinary, experimental, and decolonial imaginations of climate change and Pacific futures in an age of great planetary undoing. Drawing from our personal and academic knowledge of the Pacific from West Papua to Samoa, we highlight the need for radical forms of imagination that are grounded in an ethos of inclusivity, participation, and humility. Such imaginations must account for the perspectives, interests, and storied existences of both human and beyond-human communities of life across their multiple and situated contexts, along with their co-constitutive relations. We invite respectful cross-pollination across Indigenous epistemologies, secular scientific paradigms, and transdisciplinary methodologies in putting such an imagination into practice. In doing so, we seek to destabilise the prevailing hegemony of secular science over other ways of knowing and being in the world. We draw attention to the consequential agency of beyond-human lifeforms in shaping local and global worlds and to the power of experimental, emplaced storytelling in conveying the lively and lethal becoming-withs that animate an unevenly shared and increasingly vulnerable planet. The wisdom of our kindred plants, animals, elements, mountains, forests, oceans, rivers, skies, and ancestors are part of this story. Finally, we reflect on the structural challenges in decolonising climate change and associated forms of knowledge production in light of past and ongoing thefts of sovereignty over lands, bodies, and ecosystems across the tropics.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 20(2), 32–54. https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3796
dc.identifier.doi10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3796en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn1448-2940en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/14507
dc.publisherJames Cook Universityen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3796
dc.rightsCreative Commons CC BY 4.0. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Submission of contributions to eTropic and access to published research are free of charge.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccessen_NZ
dc.subjectPacific; Samoa; Papua; Indigeneity; Climate change; More-than-human; Imagination; Storytelling; Transdisciplinarity; Decolonisation
dc.titleDecolonising Climate Change: A Call for Beyond-Human Imaginaries and Knowledge Generationen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
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