Indigenous Practice and Community-Led Climate Change Solutions

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Indigenous Practice and Community-Led Climate Change Solutions

The Relevance of Traditional Cosmic Knowledge Systems

Anthropology Conservation of the environment Climate change Social impact of environmental issues

Authors: Rani Muthukrishnan, Ranjan Datta

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Collection: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 1st December 2023

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9781003815167


This book centers Indigenous knowledge and practice in community-led climate change solutions.

This book will be one of the first academic books to use the consciousness framework to examine and explain humans' situatedness and role in maintaining ecosystems' health. Drawing on teachings from the Indigenous Adi-Shaiva community, the authors present up-to-date research on meanings and implications of South Asian traditional cosmic knowledge, which focuses on relationality and spirituality connected to climate change. This knowledge can create innovative climate change solutions in areas including land, water, traditional management, sustainability goals and expectations, and state development projects. Overall, this book provides an innovative framework for nonviolent climate solutions, which has its foundations in a traditional cosmic and consciousness-based context.

This book, which aims to bridge the gap between Indigenous and Western perspectives by re-educating researchers and decolonizing popular climate change solutions, will be of great interest to students and scholars studying climate change, conservation, environmental anthropology, and Indigenous studies on a broader scale.

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