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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michelle Montgomery , Paulette Blanchard , Michael Chang , Mary DuPuisPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.70cm Weight: 0.449kg ISBN: 9781666911022ISBN 10: 166691102 Pages: 170 Publication Date: 15 December 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsEditor Michelle Montgomery has gathered a diverse collection of voices--distinct in lived experiences, cultural traditions, and academic backgrounds--that demands to be heard. Personal narratives and reflections join gripping analyses to illuminate Indigenous relationships to place while dismantling stereotypical notions and colonial assumptions. The result is a fearless and multifaceted look at the critical roles of place-based knowledges and identities in the twenty-first century. --Ryan E. Emanuel, Duke University Weaving together stories and accounts from a multitude of Indigenous geographies ranging from the Pacific to the forests of the Menominee nation, this book's chapters provide an insight into the ways that Indigenous identity, Indigenous resurgence, and ecological sustainability are deeply intertwined and must be taken together when thinking about the possibilities that still are possible in the world around us. Montgomery and co's words, stories, thoughts, and hopes leap from the page and remind us of our accountabilities to the environment around us and that we cannot create the desirable futures we seek and hope for without it. --Deondre Smiles, University of Victoria In this engaging collection, Montgomery brings together diverse and radical thinkers that deftly decolonize environmental and scientific narratives and centers self-determined ways of knowing from multiple Indigenous perspectives. This book represents a profound liberation scholarship that reclaims the power of Indigenous ecological consciousness through critical, queer, and feminist reflections. I can't wait to teach this book in my courses! --Melissa K. Nelson, (Turtle Mountain Chippewa), Arizona State University This timely and important volume weaves together an impressive array of voices who share stories and histories of Indigenous resilience and resurgence in response to the climate crisis we all live in today. Their stories explain how Indigenous relationships to one other and the natural world are based on reciprocity and respect. Hence, the authors elucidate the importance of including and, more essentially, centering and valuing Indigenous environmental wisdom and ecological knowledge in discussions concerning climate change and environmental destruction. Their stories remind us that we have a collective responsibility to care for both our human and nonhuman relatives, and will leave readers enlightened, saddened, and disheartened but hopeful that social, racial, gender, and environmental justice will prevail. --Charlotte Cote, University of Washington Editor Michelle Montgomery has gathered a diverse collection of voices--distinct in lived experiences, cultural traditions, and academic backgrounds--that demands to be heard. Personal narratives and reflections join gripping analyses to illuminate Indigenous relationships to place while dismantling stereotypical notions and colonial assumptions. The result is a fearless and multifaceted look at the critical roles of place-based knowledges and identities in the twenty-first century.--Ryan E. Emanuel, Duke University This timely and important volume weaves together an impressive array of voices who share stories and histories of Indigenous resilience and resurgence in response to the climate crisis we all live in today. Their stories explain how Indigenous relationships to one other and the natural world are based on reciprocity and respect. Hence, the authors elucidate the importance of including and, more essentially, centering and valuing Indigenous environmental wisdom and ecological knowledge in discussions concerning climate change and environmental destruction. Their stories remind us that we have a collective responsibility to care for both our human and nonhuman relatives, and will leave readers enlightened, saddened, and disheartened but hopeful that social, racial, gender, and environmental justice will prevail. --Charlotte Cote, University of Washington Editor Michelle Montgomery has gathered a diverse collection of voices--distinct in lived experiences, cultural traditions, and academic backgrounds--that demands to be heard. Personal narratives and reflections join gripping analyses to illuminate Indigenous relationships to place while dismantling stereotypical notions and colonial assumptions. The result is a fearless and multifaceted look at the critical roles of place-based knowledges and identities in the twenty-first century.--Ryan E. Emanuel, Duke University Author InformationMichelle Montgomery is associate professor and chair of the Division of Social and Historical Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |