370) Christine Winter: Rethinking the philosophies underlying settler politics
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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"To try and resolve the environmental problems that we're facing from within the same ontological and epistemological frameworks that have created the problem just can't work. The Western world needs to be rethinking the way it approaches what it is to be a human being on this planet, and what relationships are important."
In this episode, we welcome Dr. Christine Winter (Ngati Kahungunu ki Wairoa, Ngati Pākeha), who is a senior lecturer in environmental, climate change, multispecies and indigenous politics. Her research focuses on the ways in which academic political theory, and particularly theories of justice, continue to perpetuate injustice for some people (and more specifically for Māori) and the environment. Her most recent research centers on ensuring the emerging field of a political theory of multispecies justice should have decolonial (and anticolonial) foundations.
Some of the topics we explore in this conversation include questioning the philosophies that underlie settler politics, reorienting towards multispecies and intergenerational justice to become good ancestors, moving beyond rights-based frameworks for protecting the more-than-human world, and more.
(The musical offering featured in this episode is Eye of the storm by Ali Dineen. The episode-inspired artwork is by Sophie Le Grelle.)
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| 1:31.7 | I feel quite strongly now that to try and resolve the sorts of environmental problems that we're |
| 1:41.1 | facing from within the same ontological and epistemological frameworks that |
| 1:47.2 | have created the problem just can't work that the Western world needs to be rethinking the way |
| 1:54.9 | it approaches what it is to be a human being on this planet and what relationships are important. |
| 2:05.5 | Today we're speaking with Dr. Christine Winter, a senior lecturer in environmental, climate change, |
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