"Alaska" is not a blank space : unsettling Aldo Leopold's Odyssey / Julianne Warren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warren, Julianne Lutz, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in indigenous environmental research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gwich'in Indians--Political activity.

Gwich'in Indians.

Inupiat--Political activity.

Inupiat.

Alaska Natives--Politics and government.

Alaska Natives.

Human ecology--Political aspects--Alaska.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (122 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"This Element supports Gwich'in, Iñupiat, and all Alaska Natives' collective continuance and reparative justice from the perspective of a settler in the traditional territories of lower Tanana Dene Peoples. It stands with Alaska Natives' recovering and safe-keeping: kinships obstructed by settler-colonialism; ontologies and languages inseparable from land-relations and incommensurable with English-language perspectives; and epistemologies not beholden to any colonialist standard. These rights and responsibilities clash with Leopoldian conservation narratives still shaping mind-sets and institutions that eliminate Indigenous Peoples by telling bad history and by presuming entitlements to lands and norm-making authority. It models an interlocking method and methodology – surfacing white supremacist settler-colonialist assumptions and structures of Leopoldian conservation narratives – that may be adapted to critique other problematic legacies. It offers a pra xis of anti-colonialist, anti-racist, liberatory environmental-narrative critical-assessment centering Indigenous experts and values, including consent, diplomacy, and intergenerational respect needed for stable coalitions-making for climate and environmental justice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : facing decolonization

Matrix of methodology and method

Refusing Leopoldian settler-colonial proposals

Self-critiquing rote repetition (a redux)

Settler listening as rejoinder : Alaska Native storytelling

Conclusion : toward kinship references.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed September 5, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Warren, Julianne Lutz. "Alaska" is not a blank space

ISBN:

9781009384728

1009384724

OCLC:

1518031301

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license