Urfolkens biokulturellt miljöskydd och välbefinnande

There are no prerequisites for this study unit.

• Students achieve in-depth knowledge of Indigenous peoples’ traditional ecological knowledge, and how Indigenous peoples manage their human-environment collectives.

• Students have a good understanding of biocultural heritage and how to analytically approach human-environment relationality.

• Students understand Indigenous notions of the environment, well-being, sustainability, and biodiversity, which creates critical approaches to conservation acts and conservation history.

• Students gain new tools to solve environment conflicts by understanding ontological and epistemological differences.

Study material for an independent study or examination covering the content of this study unit:

1) Nelson, Melissa K. & Daniel Shilling 2018: Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

2) and choose two of the following:

Berkes, Fikret 2012: Sacred ecology. New York: Routledge.

De Cadena, Marisol 2014: Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds. Durham: Duke.

Dowie, Mark 2009: Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples. Cambridge (Massachusetts): MIT Press.

Elenius, Lars, Christina Allard & Camilla Sandström 2016: Indigenous rights in modern landscapes: Nordic conservation regimes in global context. London: Routledge.

Helander-Renvall, Elina 2016: Sámi Society Matters. Rovaniemi: Lapland University Press.

Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. London: Penguin Books, 2020.

Study units can be studied in the student’s own preferred order.