Cycles: Climate Change and Indigenous Women

This podcast is an Honors project in a joint anthropology/oceanography class on Indigenous science and climate change. Namely, Indigenous populations have been and will continue to be some of the first communities to be affected by environmental changes. As such, it is essential to seek guidance and knowledge from Indigenous people about possible solutions and incorporate these viewpoints into Western understandings of science and problem solving. To narrow the scope of the class for an Honors project, I am particularly interested in women and their role in answering and contributing to questions regarding the challenge of climate change. How are they affected by environmental changes in ways that men are not? What paths do they see for approaching environmental justice, and how do they view the relationship between Western and Indigenous science? These questions have been inspired by preliminary research on indigenous women’s intimate connection with the environment and how recent developments (such as the proposed Dakota Access pipeline) affect both women’s bodies and responses to climate change. Hide full description

This podcast is an Honors project in a joint anthropology/oceanography class on Indigenous science and climate change. Namely, Indigenous populations have been and will continue to be some of the first communities to be affected by environmental changes. As such, it is essential to seek guidance and knowledge from Indigenous people about possible solutions and incorporate these viewpoints into Western understandings of science and problem solving. To narrow the scope of the class for an Honors project, I am particularly interested in women and their role in answering and contributing to questions regarding the challenge of climate change. How are they affected by environmental changes in ways that men are not? What paths do they see for approaching environmental justice, and how do they... Show full description