Weaving Ecocide in Indigenous legal perspectives

Dr. Carolina Sánchez-Jaegher on Weaving Ecocide in Indigenous legal perspectives

This video contribution examines the concept of Ecocide from an Indigenous perspective. The term Indigenous is employed in a broad and generic sense, intended to challenge and engage an academically uninformed curriculum that often assumes the authority to speak for Indigenous peoples, or that mere reference to Indigenous worlds amounts to genuine recognition. Such gestures frequently obscure the deeper structures of colonial solidarity embedded in research positionality: who benefits from speaking about otherness, and who profits from difference? While this critique is centered in the Netherlands, its resonance extends far beyond, echoing the persistent silencing of Indigenous perspectives across academic institutions. By colonial solidarity, I refer to the hollow diversity and inclusion policies prevalent in higher education, those that appear to believe that adding a touch of “color” can somehow compensate for centuries of oblivion and epistemic injustice. But can it, really?