The Power of Ecological Identity: Alternative Ways of Thinking and Acting Within a Globalocality

Indigenous peoples’ environmental struggles and their construction of ecological identities have served as political strategies to establish bonds with transnational coalitions and networks (from financial help to political and conceptual support) that give indigenous peoples more political power within nation-states. These multiple, dynamic identities and loyalties (conservationist, NGOs, and indigenous nations, among others) locate indigenous peoples’ movements within a new dimension of citizenship within the nation-state and as new agents in transnational eco-politics.