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ELOHI
Peuples indigènes et environnement
About the journal
Publisher
Presses universitaires de Bordeaux
Electronic version
URL: http://elohi.revues.org/444
ISSN: 2268-5243
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About the journal
About the journal
Elohi – Indigenous People and the Environment is a new journal whose ambition is to explore
the intimate relationship that people who call themselves indigenous ‑ or are defined by
others as such ‑ maintain with their environment.
The scientific debate for which Elohi – Indigenous People and the Environment proposes to be
a forum is situated within the frame created notably in North America by two
fundamental texts that generated heated debates these past two decades. The first of
these texts ‑ “The Trouble with Wilderness”, published by William Cronon in 1996 ‑
exemplified two premises that seem to be generally accepted today although they are the
object of continually renewed analysis: 1) nature does not exist without mankind; 2) the
environment is a social and/or cultural construct. Though not totally consensual,
Cronon’s text remains less controversial than Sherpard Krech III’s, The Ecological Indian,
published in 1999.
The association of these two texts raises numerous questions. Elohi – Indigenous People and
the Environment intends to be a new space where contributors from the whole world, and
from all fields, will attempt to answer them.
Globally, the objective of the journal is to explore the relationship people have with their
immediate natural environment. By “indigenous people” we do not mean “primitive
societies” or “first people,” two phrases that appear loaded with two many derogatory
connotations. We invoke the etymological meaning of “indigenous” to focus our attention
on people engendered by and within a specific place. It does not matter much that this
indigeneity is purely imaginary. If it contributes to shape a people’s identity, then we
believe it is fundamental, worthy of interest and highly instructive. This indigenous
characteristic, which sometimes shows itself in the ancient belief that the people was
literally borne onto the world by “Mother-Earth,” often conditions the relation that the
people have with their environment. At least, Elohi – Indigenous People and the Environment
wants to examine the notion that indigeneity gives birth to a particular link to the land, a
link determined by the very belief of a people engendered by a specific place.
Other questions will be explored, such as the relationship between identity constructions,
socio-economic dynamics and representations of the environment, and the shaping of
representations of nature and the environment. More broadly, analyzing the relation
between indigenous people and their environment is also a way to examine how man
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About the journal
comes to terms with the world, as well as the models of resource development and
exploitation.
Elohi – Indigenous People and the Environment aims to have a multidimensional approach of
its object, as it seems necessary to understand it globally after it was deconstructed by the
division of knowledge on the one hand, and by the separation of nature and culture on
the other hand. This journal plans to be the place of a dialogue between actors and
observers on the one hand, and experts from all fields of knowledge on the other hand.
This first issue, introduced by a literary scholar, welcomes contributions by historians,
anthropologists, and a jurist. Their viewpoints complement each other. Following issues
will also welcome biologists, chemists, ethnologists, geographers, etc. They will analyze
different aspects of our object, particularly the relationship some indigenous people have
with environmentalists (Elohi – Indigenous People and the Environment 1.2, Dec. 2012), the
nature/culture dichotomy, the representations of the indigenous ecologist, the political
and environmental claims of indigenous people, and the place of indigenous knowledge in
a globalized economy.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CRONON , William. “The Trouble with Wilderness: or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature.”
Environmental History 1.1 (January 1996), 7-28.
KRECH
III, Shepard. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
LATOUR, Bruno. Nous n’avons jamais été modernes : Essai d’anthropologie symétrique. Paris, La
Découverte, 1991.
SERRES, Michel. Biogée. Paris, Le Pommier, 2011.
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