On the Swamp - Ryan Emanuel

On the Swamp

Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
312 Seiten
2024
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7831-3 (ISBN)
119,95 inkl. MwSt
Environmental scientist Ryan Emanuel, a member of the Lumbee tribe, shares stories from North Carolina about Indigenous survival and resilience in the face of environmental changes. These stories connect the dots between historic patterns of Indigenous oppression and present-day efforts to promote environmental justice and Indigenous rights.
Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina—a patchwork quilt of forested swamps, sandy plains, and blackwater streams that spreads across the Coastal Plain between the Fall Line and the Atlantic Ocean. In these backwaters, Lumbees and other American Indians have adapted to a radically transformed world while maintaining vibrant cultures and powerful connections to land and water. This reality is paralleled in Indigenous communities worldwide as Indigenous people continue to assert their rights to self-determination by resisting legacies of colonialism and the continued transformation of their homelands through pollution, unsustainable development, and climate change.

Environmental scientist Ryan Emanuel, a member of the Lumbee tribe, shares stories from North Carolina about Indigenous survival and resilience in the face of radical environmental changes. Addressing issues from the loss of wetlands to the arrival of gas pipelines, these stories connect the dots between historic patterns of Indigenous oppression and present-day efforts to promote environmental justice and Indigenous rights on the swamp. Emanuel's scientific insight and deeply personal connections to his home blend together in a book that is both a heartfelt and an analytical call to acknowledge and protect sacred places.

Ryan E. Emanuel (Lumbee) is associate professor of hydrology at Duke University.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 7 halftones, 4 maps, 1 graph, 1 table
Verlagsort Chapel Hill
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4696-7831-4 / 1469678314
ISBN-13 978-1-4696-7831-3 / 9781469678313
Zustand Neuware
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