Touchstones for Sustainable Development
Indigenous Peoples and the Anthropology of Sustainability in Our Common Future
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2620751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Ødemark (0000-0002-4911-8670, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 369-393 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Unbound Journal of Current Cultural Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2000-1525 • E-ISSN: 2000-1525 |
| Publisher | Linköping University Electronic Press (PUBLISHER • SE) |
| DOI | 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.191217b |
| OpenAlex | W2995582745 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
The Anthropocene is regularly invoked as an occasion for the rethinking of the Anthropos, for instance through a reexamination of human origin stories. This article examines one such anthropological origin story; the construction of an exemplary and sustainable humanity based upon notions of 'indigenous cultures' in Our Common Future in the context of D. Chakrabarty's call for a history of the human that merges the biological and cultural archives of humanity. The UN report, Our Common Future, first formulated 'sustainable development' as a global policy. Through a close reading of the report, the article demonstrates that a combined ecological and anthropological exemplarity is associated with 'indigenous and tribal peoples', who are also construed as living examples of sustainable living for the global society, and links to humanity's past. Furthermore, the article aims to show that particular conceptions of 'culture' and 'ecological' wholes enables a translation between different scales, between local and 'bounded' indigenous cultures and earth as the bounded habitat of humanity. The fusion of the concepts of 'development' and 'sustainability' in Our Common Future lies behind present UN concerns with sustainable development goals in current international policy. Hence, an inquiry into the anthropological and cultural historical assumptions of the report is vital. Questions of natural and cultural time have come to dominate discussions of the Anthropocene. The article also reconnects the global scale with a very literal struggle over space inside the Brazilian nation state, through reading the comment on the report from Ailton Krenak. Applying what we could call a language of survival, Krenak relates the global eco-political scale of OCF with a very concrete struggle over territory inside the political space of the Brazilian nation state
Anthropocene · Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Geography · Humanity · Indigenous · Political science · Reading (process · Sociology · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Development, Ethics, and Society · Law · Philosophy · Ecology
Anthropology and the Will to Meaning
Narrative Fiction
Provincializing Europe
Europe and the people without history
Indigenism
Writing vs. Time
Construction nature
History 4°
Anthropocene
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet
Indigenous Religion(s) as an Analytical Category
Humanities in the Anthropocene
Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change
The Shifting Middle Ground
Politics of Translation
The Climate of History
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |