- Title
- Margins and Sidelines: The Marginalisation of Indigenous Perspectives in International Climate Governance
- Creator
- Coyne, Benedict; Maguire, Amy; Butchers, Bethany
- Relation
- Newcastle Law Review Vol. 14, Issue 2019, p. 30-50
- Relation
- https://heinonline-org.ezproxy.newcastle.edu.au/HOL/Page?lname=&public=false&collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/nwclr14&men_hide=false&men_tab=toc&kind=&page=30
- Publisher
- The Newcastle Law Review
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- This article examines how and why Indigenous peoples' perspectives are marginalised in intergovernmental climate negotiations and allied legal instruments. It employs critical whiteness studies as an analytical lens and argues that international legal responses to climate change are influenced by a hegemony of 'whiteness' and epistemic violence that excludes Indigenous peoples' perspectives and interests. The article argues that a human-rights based approach should be taken to substantively include Indigenous peoples' traditional knowledges and time-tested sustainable land management practices in the climate regime, considering that these knowledges and practices offer crucial ecological, economic and sustainable guidance at this critical historic juncture where humanity is perched on the precipice of irreversible, catastrophic climate change.
- Subject
- Indigenous; whiteness; human rights; climate change
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1477183
- Identifier
- uon:49932
- Identifier
- ISSN:1324-8758
- Language
- eng
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