Kyle Powys Whyte
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 217519 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kyle Powys Whyte |
| NOMBRES | Kyle Powys |
| APELLIDO | Whyte |
| FIRMA | WHYTE K P |
| AFILIACIONES | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2689-691X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 681 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Protecting the Lands of Our Creation
The lands on which Indigenous creation stories take place are centrally connected to Indigenous personhood, identity, and culture. Despite the importance of these lands, non-Indigenous institutions continue to degrade and usurp these spaces. Two studies provide evidence of the cultural and psychological consequences for Indigenous Peoples when access to their ancestral homelands is threatened. In the first study ( N = 341), qualitative analyses r…
Environmental justice in indigenous communities
Indigenous communities in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania (referred to as the northeastern United States) face disproportionate environmental pollution, with mortality rates 60 % higher than their white counterparts –an inequity that extends beyond formal recognition categories. While previous research has revealed pollution from facilities that cause severe health issues in Indigenous communities, broad geographic studies examining the sp…
Global impacts of extractive and industrial development projects on Indigenous Peoples’ lifeways, lands, and rights
To what extent do extractive and industrial development pressures affect Indigenous Peoples’ lifeways, lands, and rights globally? We analyze 3081 environmental conflicts over development projects to quantify Indigenous Peoples’ exposure to 11 reported social-environmental impacts jeopardizing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous Peoples are affected in at least 34% of all documented environmental conflic…
Contribution of Indigenous Peoples' understandings and relational frameworks to invasive alien species management
Introduced species that spread and become invasive are recognised as a major threat to global biological diversity, ecosystem resilience and economic stability. Eradication is often a default conservation management strategy even when it may not be feasible for a variety of reasons. Assessment of the substantive socioeconomic and ecological impacts of invasive alien species (IAS), both negative and positive, is increasingly viewed as an important…
Centering Equity in the Nation's Weather, Water, and Climate Services
Water, weather, and climate affect everyone. However, their impacts on various communities can be very different based on who has access to essential services and environmental knowledge. Structural discrimination, including racism and other forms of privileging and exclusion, affects people's lives and health, with ripples across all sectors of society. In the United States, the need to equitably provide weather, water, and climate services is u…
Indigenous Peoples and the Justice40 Screening Tool
The Biden-Harris administration has focused considerably on environmental justice (EJ), including the Justice40 Initiative and renewed White House Council on Native American Affairs. This work has included financial investments in Tribal economies, prioritizing Tribal health care, and major Tribal infrastructure investments as part of current passed bills and active proposed legislation. The Justice40 Initiative aims at delivering at least 40% of…
Setting Justice40 in Motion
President Biden's Justice40 policy directs federal agencies to take measures to ensure that at least 40% of the benefits of energy and environmental infrastructure, climate resilience, housing, and workforce investments are truly realized by communities who have endured generations of government disinvestment and racial and economic discrimination. The path to achieving Jutice40, however, is not a given. The path faces a gauntlet of obstacles. We…
Science Fiction Futures and (Re)visions of the Anthropocene
This chapter discusses how humans envision futures, especially environmental futures, including the climate crisis, the Anthropocene, and mass extinctions. Although the philosophy of technology has traditionally examined the forecasting of technological risk and arguments about whether to embrace or reject the growth of technological mediation of human lives, the field has yet to fully investigate environmental futurisms and imagination. To begin…
Effects of land dispossession and forced migration on Indigenous peoples in North America
Long-term impacts of land dispossession To date, we lack precise estimates of the extent to which Indigenous peoples in parts of North America were dispossessed of their lands and forced to migrate by colonial settlers, as well as how the lands that they were moved into compare to their original lands. Farrell et al . constructed a new dataset within the boundaries of the current-day United States and found that Indigenous land density and spread…
Improving on Nature
In 1968 a large-scale recreational vacation property development, Legend Lake, was carved out of the recently terminated Menominee reservation to create a tax base for Wisconsin’s newly formed Menominee County. Menominee peoples’ resistance to the Legend Lake project and land sales expressed multiple concerns about settler colonialism and the process of terraforming and ecological change, land dispossession, cultural erasure, and implications for…
Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States
Climate change is a pervasive and growing global threat to biodiversity and ecosystems. Here, we present the most up-to-date assessment of climate change impacts on biodiversity, ecosystems, and ecosystem services in the U.S. and implications for natural resource management. We draw from the 4th National Climate Assessment to summarize observed and projected changes to ecosystems and biodiversity, explore linkages to important ecosystem services,…
Against crisis epistemology
People who perpetrate colonialism often defend their actions as necessary responses to real or perceived crises. Epistemologies of crisis involve knowing the world in such a way that a certain present is experienced as new. I will discuss newness in terms of the presumptions of unprecedentedness and urgency. In contradistinction to an epistemology of crisis, I will suggest that one interpretation of certain Indigenous intellectual traditions emph…
Utilizing the Dynamic Role of Objects to Enhance Cross-Cultural Climate Change Collaborations
Engagements between climate scientists and communities feature challenges but are also essential for successfully preparing for climate change. This is particularly true for indigenous peoples who are proactively responding to the threats that climate change poses by engaging in collaborations with climate decision-support organizations. The potential for risks and rewards associated with engagements like these makes developing tools for comprehe…
Experiential Learning Processes Informing Climate Change Decision Support
Climate scientists are increasingly called upon to collaborate with policy makers to develop climate science–informed policy decisions. However, there are concerns that existing professional and cultural boundaries will remain persistent barriers to fulfilling the potential promise of these collaborations. The perception that scientists will be learning by doing while pursuing these efforts does little to assuage these concerns because more resea…
Too late for indigenous climate justice
It may be too late to achieve environmental justice for some indigenous peoples, and other groups, in terms of avoiding dangerous climate change. People in the indigenous climate justice movement agree resolutely on the urgency of action to stop dangerous climate change. However, the qualities of relationships connecting indigenous peoples with other societies' governments, nongovernmental organizations, and corporations are not conducive to coor…
Indigenous mobility traditions, colonialism, and the anthropocene
The anthropocene is often discussed as an era of ‘new’ environmental changes that require unprecedented forms of societal adaptation, one example being climate-induced resettlement. Yet discussions of the anthropocene can also be better contextualized in terms of their featuring certain phenomena as ‘new’ that are really much more longstanding phenomena. For example, many Indigenous peoples have ancient traditions of environmental ‘mobility.’ Thi…
What Do Indigenous Knowledges Do for Indigenous Peoples?
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On resilient parasitisms, or why I’m skeptical of Indigenous/settler reconciliation
Political reconciliation between Indigenous peoples and settler nations is among the major ethical issues of the twenty-first century for millions of Indigenous peoples globally. Political reconciliation refers to the aspiration to transform violent and harmful relationships into respectful relationships. This essay discusses how efforts to achieve reconciliation are not feasible when settler nations and some of their citizens believe Indigenous …
Critical Investigations of Resilience
Indigenous peoples are among the most active environmentalists in the world, working through advocacy, educational programs, and research. The emerging field of Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences (iess) is distinctive, investigating social resilience to environmental change through the research lens of how moral relationships are organized in societies. Examples of iess research across three moral relationships are discussed here: resp…
Indigenous science (fiction) for the Anthropocene
Portrayals of the Anthropocene period are often dystopian or post-apocalyptic narratives of climate crises that will leave humans in horrific science-fiction scenarios. Such narratives can erase certain populations, such as Indigenous peoples, who approach climate change having already been through transformations of their societies induced by colonial violence. This essay discusses how some Indigenous perspectives on climate change can situate t…
Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice
Settler colonialism is a form of domination that violently disrupts human relationships with the environment. Settler colonialism is ecological domination, committing environmental injustice against Indigenous peoples and other groups. Focusing on the context of Indigenous peoples' facing US domination, this article investigates philosophically one dimension of how settler colonialism commits environmental injustice. When examined ecologically, s…
The recognition paradigm of environmental injustice
This chapter discusses some of the theoretical features of the recognition paradigm of environmental injustice, where a paradigm simply refers to a criterion whose presence in someone&s;s social circumstances is used by activists, scholars, politicians, and others to identify that injustice is occurring. People invoke paradigms of environmental injustice, either directly or implicitly, to reveal or prove the occurrence of injustices happening as …
Indigenous Climate Change Studies
Research Article| March 01 2017 Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene Kyle Whyte Kyle Whyte Michigan State University [email protected] Kyle Whyte holds the Timnick Chair in the Humanities and is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability at Michigan State University. His research addresses ethical and political issues relating to Indigenous peoples and climate change. He is an enr…
Factors that support Indigenous involvement in multi-actor environmental stewardship
Regional, multi-actor environmental collaborations bring together diverse parties to achieve environmental protection and stewardship outcomes. Involving a range of participants helps involve alternative forms of knowledge, expertise, and perspectives; it may also present greater challenges in reaching agreements, particularly when both Indigenous and non-Indigenous parties are involved. The authors conduct a cross-case study of 39 regional partn…
Collingridge's dilemma and the early ethical assessment of emerging technology
Indigenous science (fiction) for the Anthropocene
Portrayals of the Anthropocene period are often dystopian or post-apocalyptic narratives of climate crises that will leave humans in horrific science-fiction scenarios. Such narratives can erase certain populations, such as Indigenous peoples, who approach climate change having already been through transformations of their societies induced by colonial violence. This essay discusses how some Indigenous perspectives on climate change can situate t…
Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice
Settler colonialism is a form of domination that violently disrupts human relationships with the environment. Settler colonialism is ecological domination, committing environmental injustice against Indigenous peoples and other groups. Focusing on the context of Indigenous peoples' facing US domination, this article investigates philosophically one dimension of how settler colonialism commits environmental injustice. When examined ecologically, s…
Too late for indigenous climate justice
It may be too late to achieve environmental justice for some indigenous peoples, and other groups, in terms of avoiding dangerous climate change. People in the indigenous climate justice movement agree resolutely on the urgency of action to stop dangerous climate change. However, the qualities of relationships connecting indigenous peoples with other societies' governments, nongovernmental organizations, and corporations are not conducive to coor…
Indigenous mobility traditions, colonialism, and the anthropocene
The anthropocene is often discussed as an era of ‘new’ environmental changes that require unprecedented forms of societal adaptation, one example being climate-induced resettlement. Yet discussions of the anthropocene can also be better contextualized in terms of their featuring certain phenomena as ‘new’ that are really much more longstanding phenomena. For example, many Indigenous peoples have ancient traditions of environmental ‘mobility.’ Thi…
Critical Investigations of Resilience
Indigenous peoples are among the most active environmentalists in the world, working through advocacy, educational programs, and research. The emerging field of Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences (iess) is distinctive, investigating social resilience to environmental change through the research lens of how moral relationships are organized in societies. Examples of iess research across three moral relationships are discussed here: resp…
Weaving Indigenous science, protocols and sustainability science
No high hopes for hopeful tourism
Indigenous Women, Climate Change Impacts, and Collective Action
Indigenous peoples must adapt to current and coming climate‐induced environmental changes like sea‐level rise, glacier retreat, and shifts in the ranges of important species. For some indigenous peoples, such changes can disrupt the continuance of the systems of responsibilities that their communities rely on self‐consciously for living lives closely connected to the earth. Within this domain of indigeneity, some indigenous women take seriously t…
Trust, expertise, and the philosophy of science
Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse
Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse Nicholas J. Reo (bio), Kyle Whyte (bio), Darren Ranco (bio), Jodi Brandt (bio), Emily Blackmer (bio), and Braden Elliott (bio) North American Indigenous nations are confronting various forms of rapid environmental change, ranging from climate-induced sea-level rise on the Gulf Coast, to melting permafrost and shifting sea ice patterns in the Arctic, to invasive species-induced tro…
Is There a Right Way to Nudge? The Practice and Ethics of Choice Architecture
Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler’s Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness presents an influential account of why ‘choice architecture’ should be used to ‘nudge’ people into making better decisions than they would otherwise make. In this essay we: (1) explain the main concepts that Thaler and Sunstein rely upon to defend their project; (2) clarify the main conceptual problems that have arisen in discussions about nudges; (3…
On resilient parasitisms, or why I’m skeptical of Indigenous/settler reconciliation
Political reconciliation between Indigenous peoples and settler nations is among the major ethical issues of the twenty-first century for millions of Indigenous peoples globally. Political reconciliation refers to the aspiration to transform violent and harmful relationships into respectful relationships. This essay discusses how efforts to achieve reconciliation are not feasible when settler nations and some of their citizens believe Indigenous …
Hunting and Morality as Elements of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Ideas for How to Take Wicked Problems Seriously
Collingridge's dilemma and the early ethical assessment of emerging technology
Poverty tourism and the problem of consent
Is it morally permissible for financially privileged tourists to visit places for the purpose of experiencing where poor people live, work, and play? Tourism associated with this question is commonly referred to as ‘poverty tourism’. While some poverty tourism is plausibly ethical, other practices will be more controversial. The purpose of this essay is to address mutually beneficial cases of poverty tourism and advance the following positions. F…
What Happens to Environmental Philosophy in a Wicked World
The Importance of Participatory Virtues in the Future of Environmental Education
Poverty Tourism, Justice, and Policy
Should poverty tourism be subject, on moral grounds, to specific policy constraints? This article responds to the question by testing poverty tourism against the ethical guideposts of compensation justice, participative justice, and recognition justice, and two case descriptions, favela tours in Rocinha and garbage dump tours in Mazatlan. It argues that the complexity of the social relationships involved in the tours requires policy-relevant rese…
Improving on Nature
In 1968 a large-scale recreational vacation property development, Legend Lake, was carved out of the recently terminated Menominee reservation to create a tax base for Wisconsin’s newly formed Menominee County. Menominee peoples’ resistance to the Legend Lake project and land sales expressed multiple concerns about settler colonialism and the process of terraforming and ecological change, land dispossession, cultural erasure, and implications for…
Why Not Environmental Injustice
Turner and Feldman address an important environmental justice (EJ) issue: ‘Under conditions of social and economic inequality, only some people...will have the clout and the funding to get the powers
A proposal for genetically modifying the project of “naturalizing” phenomenology
Why Not Environmental Injustice
Turner and Feldman address an important environmental justice (EJ) issue: ‘Under conditions of social and economic inequality, only some people...will have the clout and the funding to get the powers
Trust, expertise, and the philosophy of science
Action Schemes
Environmental Justice in Native America
The Recognition Dimensions of Environmental Justice in Indian Country
Environmental justice theories that incorporate recognition justice will be best suited to evaluating the fairness of government-to-government relations, tribal institutions, and the provision of funds. I will make the case for a recognition-based conception of environmental justice. Though recognition is important to environmental justice in Indian country, there are three principle challenges that it faces: the sheer particularity of the situat…
Is There a Right Way to Nudge? The Practice and Ethics of Choice Architecture
Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler’s Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness presents an influential account of why ‘choice architecture’ should be used to ‘nudge’ people into making better decisions than they would otherwise make. In this essay we: (1) explain the main concepts that Thaler and Sunstein rely upon to defend their project; (2) clarify the main conceptual problems that have arisen in discussions about nudges; (3…
Poverty tourism and the problem of consent
Is it morally permissible for financially privileged tourists to visit places for the purpose of experiencing where poor people live, work, and play? Tourism associated with this question is commonly referred to as ‘poverty tourism’. While some poverty tourism is plausibly ethical, other practices will be more controversial. The purpose of this essay is to address mutually beneficial cases of poverty tourism and advance the following positions. F…
Ideas for How to Take Wicked Problems Seriously
What Happens to Environmental Philosophy in a Wicked World
The Importance of Participatory Virtues in the Future of Environmental Education
Poverty Tourism, Justice, and Policy
Should poverty tourism be subject, on moral grounds, to specific policy constraints? This article responds to the question by testing poverty tourism against the ethical guideposts of compensation justice, participative justice, and recognition justice, and two case descriptions, favela tours in Rocinha and garbage dump tours in Mazatlan. It argues that the complexity of the social relationships involved in the tours requires policy-relevant rese…
On the Peculiarity of Standards
Hunting and Morality as Elements of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
On the role of traditional ecological knowledge as a collaborative concept
The concept of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), along with synonymous or closely related terms like indigenous knowledge and native science, has some of its origins in literatures on international development and adaptive management. There is a tendency to want to determine one definition for TEK that can satisfy every stakeholder in every situation. Yet a scan of environmental science and policy literatures reveals there to be differences…
Justice forward
No high hopes for hopeful tourism
Indigenous Women, Climate Change Impacts, and Collective Action
Indigenous peoples must adapt to current and coming climate‐induced environmental changes like sea‐level rise, glacier retreat, and shifts in the ranges of important species. For some indigenous peoples, such changes can disrupt the continuance of the systems of responsibilities that their communities rely on self‐consciously for living lives closely connected to the earth. Within this domain of indigeneity, some indigenous women take seriously t…
Weaving Indigenous science, protocols and sustainability science
The recognition paradigm of environmental injustice
This chapter discusses some of the theoretical features of the recognition paradigm of environmental injustice, where a paradigm simply refers to a criterion whose presence in someone&s;s social circumstances is used by activists, scholars, politicians, and others to identify that injustice is occurring. People invoke paradigms of environmental injustice, either directly or implicitly, to reveal or prove the occurrence of injustices happening as …
Indigenous Climate Change Studies
Research Article| March 01 2017 Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene Kyle Whyte Kyle Whyte Michigan State University [email protected] Kyle Whyte holds the Timnick Chair in the Humanities and is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability at Michigan State University. His research addresses ethical and political issues relating to Indigenous peoples and climate change. He is an enr…
Factors that support Indigenous involvement in multi-actor environmental stewardship
Regional, multi-actor environmental collaborations bring together diverse parties to achieve environmental protection and stewardship outcomes. Involving a range of participants helps involve alternative forms of knowledge, expertise, and perspectives; it may also present greater challenges in reaching agreements, particularly when both Indigenous and non-Indigenous parties are involved. The authors conduct a cross-case study of 39 regional partn…
Collingridge's dilemma and the early ethical assessment of emerging technology
Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse
Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse Nicholas J. Reo (bio), Kyle Whyte (bio), Darren Ranco (bio), Jodi Brandt (bio), Emily Blackmer (bio), and Braden Elliott (bio) North American Indigenous nations are confronting various forms of rapid environmental change, ranging from climate-induced sea-level rise on the Gulf Coast, to melting permafrost and shifting sea ice patterns in the Arctic, to invasive species-induced tro…
What Do Indigenous Knowledges Do for Indigenous Peoples?
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
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