Losing Land, Losing Futures: Settler Colonial Discourse, Climate Change, and Land Disconnection

• In Event: Poster Session 11
  In Poster Session: Division B Section 5 Place and Praxis Posters

Abstract

In this paper we outline how settler-colonialism is used to erase Indigenous futurity by actively perpetuating human disconnection from land. We further posit that settler-colonialism is alive and well in science education, particularly in climate change-related discourse. The effect of these discourses disconnects all people from lands, not only continuing indigenous erasure, but also ensuring that humans by and large are separated from land.

Authors

• Megan C. McGinty, University of Washington - Seattle

• Emma Elliott, University of Washington - Seattle