"Our Ocean is Not a Sacrifice Zone": Indigenous Environmental Justice Against Extraction

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This talk centers Indigenous responses to climate change by focusing on U.S. proposal for deep-sea mining in an area bordering the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument and the entangled forms of economic and scientific thinking about the Mariana Trench as a site for extraction. It considers how Indigenous Pacific Islanders are mediating responses to mining and commercialization. Examining their advocacy for climate justice from the world's highest court to the deepest ocean on Earth, this work expands analyses of power through listening to the heroes of the Micronesia and their collective protection for oceanic ancestors.

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