Mino-Mnaamodzawin

IF 3.1 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Society-Advances in Research Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI:10.3167/ARES.2018.090102

D. Mcgregor

引用次数: 61

Abstract

This article explores the potential for advancing environmental justice (EJ) theory and practice through engaging with Indigenous intellectual traditions. When EJ is grounded in Indigenous epistemological and ontological foundations, a distinct EJ framework emerges, leading to a deeper understanding of Indigenous EJ and to a renewed vision for achieving it. I highlight the emergence of the Anishinaabe philosophy referred to as mino-mnaamodzawin (“living well” or “the good life”), common to several Indigenous epistemologies, that considers the critical importance of mutually respectful and beneficial relationships among not only peoples but all our relations (including all living things and many entities not considered by Western society as living, such as water and Earth itself). Mino-mnaamodzawin is suggested as a foundational contributor to a new ethical standard of conduct that will be required if society is to begin engaging in appropriate relationships with all of Creation, thereby establishing a sustainable and just world.

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Mino Mnaamodzawin

本文探讨了通过融入土著知识传统来推进环境正义理论和实践的潜力。当EJ以土著认识论和本体论基础为基础时，一个独特的EJ框架就会出现，从而导致对土著EJ的更深层次的理解和实现它的新愿景。我强调了被称为mino-mnaamodzawin(“生活得好”或“美好生活”)的Anishinaabe哲学的出现，这种哲学在几个土著认识论中很常见，它认为相互尊重和有益的关系至关重要，不仅在人民之间，而且在我们所有的关系(包括所有生物和许多西方社会不认为是生命的实体，比如水和地球本身)之间。Mino-mnaamodzawin被认为是一种新的道德行为标准的基础贡献者，如果社会要开始与所有创造物建立适当的关系，从而建立一个可持续和公正的世界，这将是必需的。

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Environment and Society-Advances in Research ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

CiteScore

2.30

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0.00%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Environment and Society: Advances in Research is an annual review journal, publishing articles that have been commissioned in response to specific published calls.The field of research on environment and society is growing rapidly and becoming of ever-greater importance not only in academia but also in policy circles and for the public at large. This growth reflects the urgency of debate and the pace and scale of change with respect to the water crisis, deforestation, biodiversity loss, the looming energy crisis, nascent resource wars, environmental refugees, climate change, and environmental justice, which are just some of the many compelling challenges facing society today and in the future. It also reflects the richness and insights of scholarship exploring diverse cultural forms, social phenomena, and political-economic formations in which society and nature are intricately intertwined, if not indistinguishable. As a forum to address these issues, we are delighted to present an important peer-reviewed annual: Environment and Society: Advances in Research. Through this journal we hope to stimulate advanced research and action on these and other critical issues and encourage international communication and exchange among all relevant disciplines. Environment and Society publishes critical reviews of the latest research literature on environmental studies, including subjects of theoretical, methodological, substantive, and applied significance. Articles also survey the literature regionally and thematically and reflect the work of anthropologists, geographers, environmental scientists, and human ecologists from all parts of the world in order to internationalize the conversations within environmental anthropology, environmental geography, and other environmentally oriented social sciences. The publication will appeal to academic, research, and policy-making audiences alike.