Lorenza Arango Vasquez critically explores the role of Indigenous environmental stewarsdship of the nature 'commons' in addressing the climate crisis and questions whether 'land tenure security' is key to this.
The role of Indigenous peoples in the protection of the nature ‘commons’ has gained much traction worldwide. It has been suggested that Indigenous ‘environmental stewardship’ would significantly contribute to addressing the climate crisis and that ‘land tenure security’ is key to this aim.
Recently published in The Journal of Peasant Studies, this paper critically explores these assumptions by highlighting the need for closer attention to the lived reality of Indigenous peoples and the state of the commons they inhabit, some of which have been taken over, fully or partly, by big capital, and exhibit a great difficulty to sustain life – as a result of broader capitalist trajectories.
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