Elements in Indigenous Environmental Research offers state-of-the-art interdisciplinary analyses within the rapidly growing area of Indigenous environmental research. The series investigates how environmental issues and processes relate to Indigenous socio-economic, cultural and political dynamics.
Elements in the series will provide concise, timely publications for researchers, policy-makers, regulatory authorities, NGOs and activists. A key aim of the series is to be both global in scope and highly interdisciplinary, covering a range of issues, including water politics, Indigenous geographies of health & disease, bioprospecting and resource extraction, methodologies and approaches, ecologies of sovereignty, climate justice and activism, geopolitics and Indigenous territories, mobilities, migration and societal change.
Interested in publishing an Element? Please consult this guide and send your proposal to Matthias Wong.
About the Editors:
View the full editorial board here.
Series Editors:
Dina Gilio-Whitaker - dinagwhitaker@gmail.com
Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is a lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos, and an independent educator in American Indian environmental policy and other issues. She teaches courses on environmentalism and American Indians, traditional ecological knowledge, religion and philosophy, Native women’s activism, American Indians and sports, and decolonization. Dina is the author of two books, including the award-winning As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock (Beacon Press, 2019). She is also an award-winning journalist, with her work appearing in Indian Country Today, the Los Angeles Times, Time.com, The Boston Globe, and many more.
Clint Carroll - clint.carroll@colorado.edu
Clint Carroll is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, he works at the intersections of Indigenous studies, anthropology, and political ecology. His first book, Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), explores how tribal natural resource managers navigate the material and structural conditions of settler colonialism, and how recent efforts in cultural revitalization inform such practices through traditional Cherokee governance and local environmental knowledge. He is an active member of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology. He also serves on the editorial boards for Cultural Anthropology and Environment and Society.
Joy Porter - joy.porter@hull.ac.uk
Joy Porter is Professor of Environmental and Indigenous History at the University of Hull, Leverhulme Major Research Fellow, 2019-2022, and Co-Principal Investigator of the Treatied Spaces Research Group. She is the Principal Investigator for “Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy Between the Iroquois and the British Crown” (2021-2024) and also convenes the “Living With/Out Water” cluster within the Leverhulme Doctoral Centre for Water Cultures at the University of Hull. Joy has over 65 publications, including four research monographs and three other books. She received the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers Writer of the Year Award for The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award for The Life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker (Oklahoma, 2001). Her latest book is Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett (Bloomsbury, 2021). She was born in Derry, in the North of Ireland.
Associate Editor:
Matthias Wong - myw22@cantab.ac.uk
Matthias Wong is Senior Tutor at the National University of Singapore and an Associate of the Treatied Spaces Research Group at the University of Hull. His research is in the environmental humanities, specifically in the use of digital methods to recover Indigenous presence in historical sources such as maps and treaties, and in reconnecting Indigenous collections in museums with their source communities. His collaborators include King’s Digital Lab at King’s College London, The Alan Turing Institute, and Nordamerika Native Museum Zurich. His research interests are on the process of meaning-making, particularly in understanding senses of time and place, and on the repercussions of trauma and disruption. His research has been published in Historical Research.
Introducing Elements in Indigenous Environmental Research
Areas of Interest:
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), Indigenous Knowledge (IK), Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK) in Indigenous & Local Communities
- Activism & Environmental/Social Movements
- Indigenous Geographies of Health & Disease
- Sustainable Futures
- Legal Rights of Nature/Personhood
- Bioprospecting
- Climate, Energy & Justice
- Forests and Deforestation
- Decolonisation
- Degrowth
- Disasters & Hazards
- Environmental Markets (carbon trading, biodiversity offsetting, payments for ecosystem services)
- Extractivism & Mining
- Indigenous Research Paradigms & Methodologies
- Indigeneity, Gender and the Environment
- Indigenous Environmental Justice, Land & Treaties
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Governance & Jurisprudence
- Health & Indigenous Food Systems
- Geopolitical Indigenous Environments
- Green and Circular Economies
- Illegal Wildlife Trade
- National Parks and “Wild” Spaces
- Migration, Development and Climate
- Agriculture 4.0
- Arctic Environments
- Green Finance and Indigenous Environments
- Fishing and Indigenous Environments
- Hydropower & Water Governance
- The Digital Indigenous Environment
- Urban Indigenous Futures