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Anthropology, Conflict Transformation and Cultural Violence in Environmental Conflict

Bibliographic Data

ID2489255
AuthorsBrenda J Fitzpatrick (0000-0001-7787-517X, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume18
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-43412021v18a704
OpenAlexW4205747570
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412021000100704
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited28

Using the example of the controversial Site C dam in British Columbia, Canada, this article describes how ethnographic research that incorporated a conflict transformation perspective and included individuals from both sides of the issue highlighted both contrasting views on human-environment relations and the inequitable conditions under which they met through the Environmental Assessment process. The article argues that an anthropological approach that incorporates a conflict transformation perspective is particularly well-suited to identify, and potentially to address, the "discourses, narratives, and worldviews" (Rodriguez and Inturias 2018: 96) that operate as "cultural violence" (Galtung, 1990) in state-Indigenous environmental conflicts, legitimating structural and environmental violence

Climate change · Conflict resolution · Conflict transformation · Cultural anthropology · Cultural conflict · Environmental change · Environmental ethics · Ethnography · Indigenous · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Structural violence · Anthropology · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Ecology

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