Revisioning and Developing a Future with Indigenous Peoples: Challenges (Disruptions?) to Stewardship Regimes

• In Event: Environmental Sociology Section Roundtables
  In Refereed Roundtable (60 minute): Table 7: Law, Institutions, and Governance Systems

Abstract

This research and presentation is grounded in 6O years of work in the northeastern USA. A compelling intensity of activity as a global scholar and local activist and empathetic collaborations with local indigenous groups (e.g. Shinnecock and Abenaki) underlies this revisioning of development and the global pact for the Future. Historic precedence is generated from the “Earth Transformed” (Frankopan) and the “Indigenous Continent” (Hamalainen), and the “Rediscovery of America” (Blackhawk), to explore the sociological dynamic role of indigenous peoples, including those in the Northeastern, North America. Coalition formations through UN Civil Society organizations of the UN, the global movements for greater sovereignty and multilateralism are perspectives that add to a revisioning of historic colonization and industrial capitalism and the transformation of regions that are dominated by strategies and regimes of stewardship, preservation, and conservation, that challenge Indigenous rights (historic and contemporary). A case study of (my) land ownership, informed by historic changes, grounds the research. Is land repatriation a strategy? Is collaboration on new conservation visions the way to revision a more peaceful, sustainable Future? Shouldn’t the great land stewards of the past and present work together to revision that Future for future generations?

Author

• Diana Papademas, SUNY-Old Westbury