Forced local necessity proliferates indigenous, non-Western environmentalisms

Evidence

These developments gave Saro-Wiwa’s campaign a resonance it had previously lacked and challenged stereotypes about environmental activists: that they are inevitably white, young, middle-class Europeans or Americans who can afford to hug trees because they have been spared more desperate battles. Saro-Wiwa’s campaign for environmental self-determination may well prove historically critical to the development of a broader image of ecological activism. Just as we witnessed how the sometimes rarefied concerns of middle-class white feminists in the 1970s gave way in ensuing decades to a more internationally diverse array of feminisms, locally led and locally defined, so too we are now seeing indigenous environmentalisms proliferate under pressure of local necessity. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 316

Categorization

• XREF: Fits the ecofeminism and settler-colonial threads of the polyad: diversifying who counts as an environmental activist. — connects to: Local problems motivate environmental action more than abstract global harms — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2949; Spatial-temporal disconnect makes environmental conservation an abstraction not a necessity — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2529; Amazon deforestation creates lawless cattle-frontier communities that attract fugitives — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 320 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Local problems motivate environmental action more than abstract global harms #corroborates (0.82) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2949
• Spatial-temporal disconnect makes environmental conservation an abstraction not a necessity #corroborates (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2529