Short Abstract

This panel explores how Indigenous climate justice imaginaries challenges the global climate regime, underscoring the ethical and political importance of Indigenous action and resistance in advancing planetary sustainability.

Description

As the impacts of the anthropogenic climate crisis are deepening across the globe, one of the most impacted groups, indigenous people are advancing transformative alternatives that challenge dominant techno-managerial and market responses to climate change. Rooted in place-based knowledge, relational ethics, and long histories of ecological stewardship, indigenous communities are leading climate action.From the forest guardianship and territorial self-governance in the Amazon to the Arctic to community-led forest and water management in South Asia and the Pacific, Indigenous groups continue to resist and redefine extractivist development, including climate action as part of the global climate regime.

This panel seeks to interrogate the tensions between indigenous climate justice imaginaries and the global climate change regime, foregrounding the ethical and political significance of indigenous climate actions and resistance for planetary sustainability. The panel brings together scholars, practitioners, and members of the indigenous groups to examine how indigenous cosmologies, epistemologies, practices, and experiences advance climate action. We invite comparative perspectives on the ways in which indigenous groups mobilize themselves, local governance, customary law, and spiritual practices as tools of resistance and renewal. We invite papers that explore this theme, but are not limited to the following specific topics.

1. Indigenous Epistemologies and Imaginaries of Climate Action

2. Indigenous Climate Action

3. Resistance, Governance, and Territorial Autonomy

4. Indigenous Contributions to UNFCCC, IPCC assessments, and National Climate Action Plans

5. Indigenous Data, Data Sovereignty

6. Indigenous Youth and Climate Justice Movements

7. Climate Change and Indigenous Futurisms

8. Climate Tech and Indigenous Groups

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