Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene :Freshwater management in Aotearoa New Zealand

Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene :Freshwater management in Aotearoa New Zealand

Anthropology

This open access book crosses disciplinary boundaries to connect theories of environmental justice with Indigenous people’s experiences of freshwater management and governance. It traces the history of one freshwater crisis – the degradation of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Waipā River– to the settler-colonial acts of ecological dispossession resulting in intergenerational injustices for Indigenous Māori iwi (tribes). The authors draw on a rich empirical base to document the negative consequences of imposing Western knowledge, worldviews, laws, governance and management approaches onto Māori and their ancestral landscapes and waterscapes. Importantly, this book demonstrates how degraded freshwater systems can and are being addressed by Māori seeking to reassert their knowledge, authority, and practices of kaitiakitanga (environmental guardianship). Co-governance and co-management agreements between iwi and the New Zealand Government, over the Waipā River, highlight how Māori are envisioning and enacting more sustainable freshwater management and governance, thus seeking to achieve Indigenous environmental justice (IEJ).

Authors :
Meg Parsons, Karen Fisher, Roa Petra Crease

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-61071-5

Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

2021

Siti Muzaroh

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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English

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61071-5