ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the far-reaching and entangled impacts of land dispossession, specifically on Indigenous communities. Land dispossession, specifically in Indigenous communities, can increase women’s social vulnerability. Organizations and individuals are employing strategies to empower communities and enable their right and ability to remain on their traditionally occupied land. When women are unable to continue engaging in traditional practices, as is common in cases of land dispossession, they are displaced “from their roles and positions in their societies”. This, in turn, may cause their social status and value to diminish, “making them more vulnerable to marginalization and exclusion” The chapter seeks to reaffirm scholar Kyle Whyte’s assertion that the disproportionate exposure to environmental bads “represents only one dimension of the structure of environmental injustice against Indigenous peoples.” Internationally influenced strategies of “economic stimulation” have proven to exacerbate both global climate challenges and the vulnerability of the local community.
