Challenge to Civilization: Indigenous Wisdom and the Future - Couverture souple

Stonechild, Blair

 
9780889779815: Challenge to Civilization: Indigenous Wisdom and the Future
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0889779813 ISBN 13 : 9780889779815
Editeur : University of Regina Press, 2024

Synopsis

Rediscovering, valuing, and embracing Indigenous spirituality and wisdom is critical for humanity to survive in the future.

Civilization is a western, Eurocentric construct borne from a distrust of nature, a desire to endlessly exploit it and profit from it. Despite being a relatively recent development, civilization’s inherent logic has resulted in over-population, inequality, poverty, misery, war, and climate change and now threatens humanity’s very survival. How can humanity expect to survive if it continues to look for solutions from the very structures and ideologies that have brought it to the brink of extinction?

In this final book of his trilogy, Dr. Blair Stonechild deftly illustrates how Indigenous spirituality, wisdom, and land-based knowledge is critical to human survival in the face of environmental destruction and human-induced climate change. Reinterpreting world history from an Indigenous perspective, Stonechild’s solution to this unfolding catastrophe is “ecolization,” a state in which humans recognize they are not the central purpose of creation and a way of existing harmoniously with the natural and spiritual worlds.

Beautifully written, urgent, and critical, Challenge to Civilization reminds us that it is not Earth that is in danger of extinction, but ourselves, and Indigenous spiritual wisdom can be the guiding light through what will otherwise be humanity’s final, ever-darkening days.

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À propos de l'auteur

Blair A. Stonechild is a member of the Muscowpetung First Nation in Saskatchewan. He is a residential school survivor and was the first faculty member hired at the First Nations University of Canada in 1976. He is an author of five previous books and lives in Regina with his wife Sylvia and three adult children.

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Éditeur
University of Regina Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0889779813
ISBN 13 
9780889779815
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
210
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0889779848 ISBN 13 :  9780889779846
Editeur : University of Regina Press, 2024
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