Indigenous Resurgence: Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice

From the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's resistance against the Dakota Access pipeline to the Nepalese Newar community's protest of the Fast Track Road Project, Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air. By reminding us of the fundamental importance of placing Indigenous politics, histories, and ontologies at the center of our social movements, Indigenous Resurgence positions environmental justice within historical, social, political, and economic contexts, exploring the troubling relationship between colonial and environmental violence and reframing climate change and environmental degradation through an anticolonial lens.

Jaskiran Dhillon is an Associate Professor of Global Studies and Anthropology at The New School in New York City. Her work has appeared in publications including The Guardian, Cultural Anthropology, Social Texts, Truthout, The Nation, Globalizations, Feminist Formations, and Decolonization. She is the author of Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention (University of Toronto Press, 2017) and co-editor of Standing With Standing Rock: Voices from the #NODAPL Movement (University of Minnesota Press, 2019).