Indigenous Intergenerational Resilience

This book argues that there is a need to develop greater indigenous-led intergenerational resilience in order to meet the challenges posed by contemporary crises of climate change, cultural clashes, and adversity.
In today's media, the climate crisis is kept largely separate and distinct from the violent cultural clashes unfolding on the grounds of religion and migration, but each is similarly symptomatic of the erasure of the human connection to place and the accompanying tensions between generations and cultures. This book argues that both forms of crisis are intimately related, under-scored and driven by the structures of white supremacism which at their most immediate and visible, manifest as the discipline of black bodies, and at more fundamental and far-reaching proportions, are about the power, privilege and patterns of thinking associated with but no longer exclusive to white people. In the face of such crisis, it is essential to bring the experience and wisdom of Elders and traditional knowledge keepers together with the contemporary realities and vision of youth.
This book's inclusive and critical perspective on Indigenous-led intergenerational resilience will be valuable to Indigenous and non-Indigenous interdisciplinary scholars working on human-ecological resilience.

Lewis Williams founded Corona Books UK in 2015. His literary endeavours have been multifarious. As well as being the editor of and occasional contributor to all four volumes of the Corona Book of Horror Stories, his writing has covered areas as diverse as social policy, music and humour. Lewis has been - or still is - many things including an author, editor, publisher, Philosophy graduate, higher-education administrator, researcher for Oxford University, buyer of parts for industrial robots, local government officer, property developer, and part-qualified electrician. Maybe he should get a grip.

Chapter 1: Indigenous-led intergenerational resilience: The work of the "now" Chapter 2: The cultural and generational dimensions of climate and ecological crisis Chapter 3: Paradigms of resurgence and intergenerational resilience Chapter 4: Rongö M-ori as a generative response to the crises of our times Chapter 5: Ko ng- P-r-ko - T-rangawaewae-Stories of finding the places where we can be powerful Chapter 6: A global decolonial praxis of sustainability-Undoing epistemic violences through critical pedagogies of place Chapter 7: The dish with one spoon: Rehonoring an ancient treaty Chapter 8: The whakapapa (genealogy) of all things