Indigenous and Chicana women frame toxic contamination as systematic genocide

Evidence

In one study, interviews of a variety of Native American activists show that they have ‘a genocidal analysis rooted in the Native American cultural identification, the experience of colonialism, and the imminent endangerment of their culture’ (Krauss 1994: 267). For activists interviewed in another study of indigenous and Chicana women in the southwest, threats ‘to the environment are interpreted as threats to their families and communities’. They see ‘toxic contamination of their communities as systematic genocide’ (Bretting and Prindeville 1998: 149). The top motive cited by these women activists is cultural preservation, making it equal to their concern with public health (Prindeville 2004). — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 233

Categorization

• XREF: Ecofeminist connection: women activists ranking cultural preservation equal to public health. — connects to: Indigenous communities frame environmental harms as threats to cultural survival, not ecology — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 233; Environmental destruction, colonialism, and genocide are organically entwined phenomena — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 193; Toxicity erases a community’s pretoxic past along with individuals’ human histories — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 144 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Environmental destruction, colonialism, and genocide are organically entwined phenomena #corroborates (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 193
• Toxicity erases a community’s pretoxic past along with individuals’ human histories #expands (0.75) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 144
• Venezuelan Warao communities framed a cholera epidemic as genocide to challenge stigmatization #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 277
• Treating ethnic groups as stable natural entities may reinforce the reifications that enable genocide #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 267
• Indigenous movements frame environmental injustice primarily as misrecognition, not inequity #qualifies (0.70) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 305