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“Time is our worst enemy:” Lived experiences and intercultural relations in the making of green aluminum
Journal of Social Issues ( IF 4.0 ) Pub Date : 2021-08-11 , DOI: 10.1111/josi.12472
Susanne Normann 1
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Climate change's burden is double for many Indigenous communities: while changing weather-patterns threaten their ways of life, greenlabeled extractive industries take hold in their territories. This article advances decolonial psychology's engagement with climate change mitigation as a form of green colonization through a multi-site study of lived experiences among Indigenous and Tribal communities affected by the production of “green aluminum.” The study follows aluminum's value and supply chains interconnecting the indigenous Southern Saami people's struggle to defend their reindeer pasturing lands to the booming wind power industry in Norway and the Brazilian Amazon communities’ confrontations with bauxite-mining and alumina refineries. Data material consists of individual interviews (N = 25), 13 group interviews and participatory observation. Despite sociocultural differences, participants narrated lived experiences of loss of lifeworlds and meaning-systems resulting from wind power and aluminum production, and harmful experiences with companies and bureaucracy thematized as forms of “bad faith.” They discussed different mechanisms of violence and dehumanization in hegemonic green agendas. By highlighting how Green New Deal (GND) proposals in Norway forward aluminum-smelting as exemplar of just transition and green inclusion, the study's findings suggest that for proliferating GND's to be inclusive and just, their scope must be international and decolonial.

中文翻译:

“时间是我们最大的敌人:”绿色铝制造中的生活经验和跨文化关系

对于许多土著社区来说,气候变化的负担是双倍的:虽然不断变化的天气模式威胁着他们的生活方式,但绿色标签的采掘业却在他们的领土上扎根。本文通过对受“绿色铝”生产影响的土著和部落社区的生活经历进行多地点研究,推进去殖民心理学将减缓气候变化作为一种​​绿色殖民形式。该研究跟踪铝的价值和供应链,将土著南部萨米人为保卫驯鹿牧场的斗争与挪威蓬勃发展的风能产业以及巴西亚马逊社区与铝土矿开采和氧化铝精炼厂的对抗联系起来。数据材料包括个人访谈(N= 25), 13 组访谈和参与式观察。尽管存在社会文化差异,参与者讲述了风能和铝生产导致的生活世界和意义系统丧失的生活经历,以及与公司和官僚机构的有害经历,这些经历被主题化为“恶意”的形式。他们讨论了霸权绿色议程中的不同暴力和非人化机制。通过强调挪威的绿色新政 (GND) 提案如何将铝冶炼作为公正过渡和绿色包容的典范,该研究的结果表明,要使 GND 具有包容性和公正性,其范围必须是国际性的和非殖民性的。
更新日期:2021-08-11
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