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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Juanita Sundberg: Challenging "human exceptionalism" and institutions of change

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this conversation with Dr. Juanita Sundberg, we explore how our relationships with the more-than-human world are often shaped by our institutions and knowledge systems — which don’t always honor the diverse cosmologies and relationalities of life.

Juanita draws on her work with Indigenous communities and organizations as she highlights how our existence is determined not only by political and societal constructs of borders and boundaries, but by some of the most overlooked elements of the living world.

What is the significance of unraveling colonial modes of relating? What does it mean to nuance the concept of “human exceptionalism"? And how do we collectively re-enliven and heal such senses of dissociation?

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0:54.4

Like we're told we need to recycle. we need to, I don't know, don't use as much water as you do,

0:59.8

which I actually think is really important.

1:01.4

But what's more important is to examine how we form relationships and how our relationships

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look and feel and are and begin to think about

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changing our relationships, to shift ourselves from thinking individually always, to start

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thinking collectively. You're listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kameh Shane. Today, we are honored to

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welcome Dr. Juanita Sundberg, an associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia.

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Her research brings the insights of feminist political ecology and the sensibilities of

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ethnography to bear on the politics of nature. Her work seeks to foster conversations between

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more than human geographies, critical indigenous studies,

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and critical theories of race and abelism in relation to climate change and extinction

2:09.6

in settler colonial societies in the Americas.

2:13.6

Yes, I mean, I can speak to this in relation to where I live and teach now, which is in British Columbia, Canada, but also where I continue to do work and have relationships, which is in Central America.

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