While sustainability and climate-resilient development become more prominent topics in international debates, the question of how Indigenous Peoples are included in environmental policies and decision-making arises. Postcolonial theory has argued for the need to decolonize the discipline of International Relations and other scientific assessments rooted in Eurocentric standards that have been homogenized and imposed onto different cultures through colonization. This thesis employs a postcolonial lens to investigate the representation of Indigenous Peoples in reports issued by the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by conducting a content analysis of the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) 2023 and the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). It finds that although the documents intend to engage with Indigenous Knowledge and recognize its importance, they still lack cultural aspects of Indigenous perspectives on development that differ from established views of the Global North. The right to self-determination and rupture from colonial structures are essential for Indigenous ideas of development, and their epistemologies must be considered equally valid rather than superficially integrated into non-Indigenous science to advance plans toward an ‘ideal society’ that perpetuates their marginalization.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-68731 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | de Araujo Rojas Lima, Amanda |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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