Contemporary indigenous activism reveals the role of ‘place’ in environmental sustainability and justice, MU scholar finds
COLUMBIA, Mo. – “Place-based identity” is the idea that people form a sense of place and establish connections to a geographical area. Often, place-based struggles arise when that sense of home is threatened by development or undermined by non-local actors. In a new book that focuses on place-based activism led by indigenous people in the United States, Canada and New Zealand, Soren Larsen suggests that today’s place-based battles are transforming the way native and non-native people are understanding and relating to place itself. (more…)