Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31449
Title: Mental health, climate change, and bushfires: What's colonization got to do with it?
Contributor(s): Upward, Kisani  (author); Saunders, Vicki (author); Maple, Myfanwy  (author)orcid ; Usher, Kim  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2021-12
Early Online Version: 2021-08-29
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.1111/inm.12927Open Access Link
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31449
Abstract: Climate change research has been dominated by studies from the physical and biological sciences that aim to predict and measure the effects and determine actions and strategies for the future. More recently, greater attention has been given to other forms of impact including the social and emotional effects of climate change (Usher et al. 2019). According to Betasamosake-Simpson (2021), climate change is just one part of a longer series of ecological catastrophes caused by colonialism and accumulation-based society. Whyte (2017) suggests that the history of climate change and colonialism is synonymous. Colonization is the result of settler domination, which occurs when one society permanently inhabits a place where one or more societies already exist. As a result, the settlers inflict anti-adaptation on Indigenous peoples. Colonial-induced environmental changes have impacted the ecological systems that supported Indigenous peoples' cultures, health, economies, and self-determination. Many of these changes occurred so fast that Indigenous peoples became vulnerable to issues such as health problems resulting from new diets and erosion of culture due to colonialism (Whyte 2017).
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 30(6), p. 1473-1475
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
Place of Publication: Australia
ISSN: 1447-0349
1445-8330
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 450499 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing not elsewhere classified
450415 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nursing
450420 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social, emotional, cultural and spiritual wellbeing
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 210399 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health not elsewhere classified
210301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander determinants of health
HERDC Category Description: C4 Letter of Note
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