This paper explores the relationship between Indigenous rights to land, extractivism and climate change exploring these connections as part of an ongoing project to make sense of the insensibilities of Indigenous social policy, at least as I know these to be in Australia, and how this relates to everything else that we might take for granted about living in the a moment.
Tess Lea is Professor and Head of Department, Community, Culture and Global Studies at UBC-Okanagan, located on the unceded lands of the Syilx Okanagan. Her anthropological focus has been on Indigenous policy, bureaucracy and the extractive state, as this permeates housing, infrastructure, educational and environmental fields.
