Original Article
Framing extractive violence as environmental (in)justice: A cross-perspective from indigenous lands in Canada and Sweden

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Highlights

  • Extractive violence is both material, cultural and structural violence.

  • Precarity and disregard for Indigenous rights constrains self-determination efforts.

  • Extractive violence does not necessarily end with the closure of a mine.

  • Forms of justice are articulated inside and outside of colonial notions of justice.

Abstract

This paper aims to explore Environmental Justice in two Indigenous contexts, Canada and Sweden, and uses the concept of Extractive Violence to discuss colonial articulations of extractivism and community strategies for dealing with it. Through analysis of existing research, as well as the experiences shared by the two Indigenous leaders, the paper investigates the different strategies and narratives of environmental justice enacted, and how is justice framed and discussed in response to extractive violence.

Keywords

Environmental justice
Indigenous people
Extractivism
Extractive violence
Colonialism

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