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Coastal Climate Justice: Reflections from the Water
Topics: Cultural and Political Ecology
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Keywords: coastal justice, climate change, relationality, transformation Session Type: Virtual Paper Day: Thursday Session Start / End Time: 4/8/2021 04:40 PM (Pacific Time (US & Canada)) - 4/8/2021 05:55 PM (Pacific Time (US & Canada)) Room: Virtual 49
Authors:
Vanessa Sloan Morgan, University of Northern British Columbia
Sarah Hunt, University of Victoria
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Abstract
What can oceans, streams, and salmon teach us about how to unsettle climate justice? How can we look to the shorelines that have long guided beings ashore to foreground coastal initiatives centred on Indigenous legal orders? In this paper, we draw from our time on the water to reflect upon these questions from our respective and embodied positions. Having long rooted our research with unceded, coastal First Nations whose lands and waters make up what is now known as Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, we look to the streams and the oceans, the shores and the cedars, as inseparable beings that demand desirous relations from one another. We paddle our way through a series of queer relationalities that guide our thinking as we question the utility of academic scholarship in enacting climate and coastal justice. In so doing, we ask ourselves and others: how can coastal justice be unsettled when oceans and those who call them home are unsettle-able?
Coastal Climate Justice: Reflections from the Water