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‘Alaska’ is Not a Blank Space

‘Alaska’ is Not a Blank Space

‘Alaska’ is Not a Blank Space

Unsettling Aldo Leopold's Odyssey
Julianne Warren
August 2025
Not yet published - available from August 2025
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9781009384759

    This Element supports Gwich'in, Iñupiat, and all Alaska Natives' collective continuance and reparative justice from the perspective of a settler in the traditional territories of lower Tanana Dene Peoples. It stands with Alaska Natives' recovering and safe-keeping: kinships obstructed by settler-colonialism; ontologies and languages inseparable from land-relations and incommensurable with English-language perspectives; and epistemologies not beholden to any colonialist standard. These rights and responsibilities clash with Leopoldian conservation narratives still shaping mind-sets and institutions that eliminate Indigenous Peoples by telling bad history and by presuming entitlements to lands and norm-making authority. It models an interlocking method and methodology – surfacing white supremacist settler-colonialist assumptions and structures of Leopoldian conservation narratives – that may be adapted to critique other problematic legacies. It offers a pra xis of anti-colonialist, anti-racist, liberatory environmental-narrative critical-assessment centering Indigenous experts and values, including consent, diplomacy, and intergenerational respect needed for stable coalitions-making for climate and environmental justice.

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    April 2025
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    9781009384711
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    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction: Facing Decolonization
    • 2. Matrix of Methodology and Method
    • 3. Refusing Leopoldian Settler-Colonial Proposals
    • 4. Self-Critiquing Rote Repetition (A Redux)
    • 5. Settler Listening as Rejoinder: Alaska Native Storytelling
    • 6. Conclusion: Toward Kinship
    • References.
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    • Julianne Warren