Indigenous Climate Justice: India, North America, Australia

Join us for a workshop on Indigenous climate justice and a public lecture discussing ideas and strategies for country and cultural flows. The workshop brings together activists and scholars in critical discussion about Indigenous land and water rights, the impact of climate change and mobilisation from extractivism to climate sinks, in settler society contexts of India, Australia and the United States. The workshop will include presentations on research and campaigns with the view to dialogue, information sharing and future collaborations. 

Hosts: Climate Justice Research Centre + Indigenous Economies Research Network

Indigenous Climate Justice: India, North America, Australia

 

Monday 27 August, Workshop 10.30am - 4.00pm + Public Lecture 6pm-8pm 

 

Room: CB08.08.003, University of Technology Sydney

 

Indigenous peoples are at the forefront in redefining society for a climate changing world. The impacts of climate change on Indigenous country, water and ecology are being politicised and mobilised.  Indigenous land sovereignty is being enforced against fossil fuel extraction, contesting mining and drilling and the Indigenous domain is being asserted against the attempts to appropriate lands, forests and coasts as a commodified 'carbon sink'.  Indigenous culture, health and livelihood is increasingly defined in alternative terms, such as 'living well', that have gained global resonance; and Indigenous people are creating new constituencies and alliances, across the multiple sites of resistance and transformation in a climate changed society. 

 

This workshop and public lecture aims to explore the different dimensions of Indigenous Climate Justice, addressing parallel contexts in India, North America and Australia.  

 

We invite participation, in whatever form. 

 

Program: 

10.00-  Heidi Norman and James Goodman – Welcome from UTS 

 

10:00-10:30-  Kyle Whyte – Indigenous Climate Justice: Setting the Scene

 

10:30-11:15 -Water Sovereignty and Climate Justice, Fred Hooper and Rene Woods,

Chair: Heidi Norman

 

11:15-11:30 -  Morning Tea

 

1130-1215-  Land Justice-Coal Mining and Climate Justice: Wangan and Jalalingou representatives (tbc)

 

12:15-1:00-  Lunch

 

1:00-1:45pm  India: Adivasi peoples, Forest Rights and Climate Justice

            Kanchi Kohli, Manju Menon, Chair: Devleena Ghosh 

 

1:45-2.30pm-  Australia: the Aboriginal Estate, Rights and Climate Mobilisation 

Heidi Norman, SEED (tbc) Ruchira Talukdar, Chair: James Goodman

 

2.30-2.45- Afternoon Tea 

 

2.45-430 Alliances and Articulations

 Tony Birch, Stephen Muecke, others tbc, Chair Heather Goodall

 

4.30-  Wrap up: James Goodman

 

4:30-5: 30  Meeting at Cafe (venue TBC)

 

5:30-6:00:  Reception for Public Lecture: 

 

Registration: 

Workshop: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/indigenous-climate-justice-india-north-america-australia-tickets-48152899619 

 

Public lecture: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/indigenous-perspectives-on-climate-change-tickets-48152792298 

 

Further Info: james.goodman@uts.edu.au

Public Lecture: Monday 27th August, 6pm-8pm 

Room: Turner Hall, 19 Mary Ann St, Ultimo