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This groundbreaking volume interrogates Aldo Leopold’s foundational environmental ethics by examining his treatment of Alaska as a blank slate for conservation ideals. Author Julianne Warren reveals how Leopold’s influential wilderness philosophy inadvertently erased Indigenous knowledge systems and sovereignty over Alaskan lands.
Through careful historical analysis and Indigenous environmental research frameworks, Warren demonstrates the consequences of treating landscapes as empty spaces awaiting Western environmental management. The book contributes to ongoing conversations about decolonizing conservation, reclaiming Indigenous environmental stewardship, and reimagining ecological ethics that center Indigenous voices and land relations.
Part of the Cambridge Elements in Indigenous Environmental Research series, this work bridges environmental history, Indigenous studies, and philosophy, offering scholars and students essential perspectives on how canonical environmental texts must be reexamined and reframed through Indigenous perspectives.
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