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Chapter 4 - Time as Kinship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2021

By
Kyle Powys Whyte
Edited by
Jeffrey Cohen  and
Stephanie Foote
Jeffrey Cohen
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Stephanie Foote
Affiliation:
West Virginia University
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Summary

Climate change is often discussed in terms of linear units of time. This chapter covers the meaning of linear time and its implications for how climate change is narrated.  There are concerns about how narrating climate change in this way can eclipse issues of justice in the energy transition. There are of course different ways of telling time. This chapter provides a narration of climate change inspired by particular Indigenous scholars and writers. These conceptions of time narrate time through kinship, not linearity. One implication is that issues of justice are inseparable from the experience of climate change.

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nnvironmental justicecolonialismtimenarrative ethicsIndigenous peoplesclimate justice
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The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities , pp. 39 - 55
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Callison, Candis, How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts. Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Fiskio, Janet. “Dancing at the End of the World: The Poetics of the Body in Indigenous Protest,” in Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies: Conversations from Earth to Cosmos, edited by Monani, Salma and Adamson, Joni. New York, NY: Routledge, 2016, pp. 101–118.Google Scholar
Kimmerer, Robin. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2013.Google Scholar
Maracle, Lee. Memory Serves. Edmonton, AB: NeWest Press, 2015.Google Scholar
Monani, Salma. “Feeling and Healing Eco-Social Catastrophe,” Global Weirding, edited by Canavan, Gerry and Hageman, Andrew. Vashon Island, WA: Paradoxa, 2016, pp. 192–213.Google Scholar
Salmón, Enrique. “Kincentric Ecology: Indigenous Perceptions of the Human-Nature Relationship,” Ecological Applications 10 (2000): 1327–1332.Google Scholar
Tallbear, Kim “Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming,” Kalfou 6 (2019): 24.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Todd, Zoe “Fish, Kin, and Hope: Tending to Water Violations in Amiskwaciwâskahikan and Treaty Six Territory,” Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry 43 (2017): 102.Google Scholar
Trosper, Ronald Resilience, Reciprocity and Ecological Economics: Northwest Coast Sustainability. New York, NY: Routledge, 2009.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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