Journal article
Old ways for new days: Australian Indigenous peoples and climate change
Local Environment, Vol.24(5), pp.473-486
2019
Abstract
This paper explores how Australia's Indigenous peoples understand and respond to climate change impacts on their traditional land and seas. Our results show that: (i) Indigenous peoples are observing modifications to their country due to climate change, and are doing so in both ancient and colonial time scales; (ii) the ways that climate change terminology is discursively understood and used is fundamental to achieving deep engagement and effective adaptive governance; (iii) Indigenous peoples in Australia exhibit a high level of agency via diverse approaches to climate adaptation; and (iv) humour is perceived as an important cultural component of engagement about climate change and adaptation. However, wider governance regimes consistently attempt to "upscale" Indigenous initiatives into their own culturally governed frameworks - or ignore them totally as they "don't fit" within neoliberal policy regimes. We argue that an opportunity exists to acknowledge the ways in which Indigenous peoples are agents of their own change, and to support the strategic localism of Indigenous adaptation approaches through tailored and place-based adaptation for traditional country.
Details
- Title
- Old ways for new days: Australian Indigenous peoples and climate change
- Authors
- Melissa Nursey-Bray (Author) - University of the Sunshine CoastR Palmer (Author) - University of AdelaideTimothy F Smith (Author) - University of the Sunshine CoastP Rist (Author) - Girringun Aboriginal Corporation
- Publication details
- Local Environment, Vol.24(5), pp.473-486
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2019
- DOI
- 10.1080/13549839.2019.1590325
- ISSN
- 1354-9839
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451335002621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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