{"id":122,"date":"2021-06-14T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/strategicdialogueengagmentclimateadapt\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=122"},"modified":"2021-06-14T00:47:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T04:47:00","slug":"urgency-and-the-pace-of-relationship","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/strategicdialogueengagmentclimateadapt\/chapter\/urgency-and-the-pace-of-relationship\/","title":{"raw":"Urgency and the Pace of Relationship","rendered":"Urgency and the Pace of Relationship"},"content":{"raw":"In many cases, the methods outlined below may feel like a detour or a \u2018nice to have\u2019 that we can\u2019t afford given the urgency of the climate crisis. However, it is particularly important, given the urgency of the climate crisis, to watch for the temptation to skip over good process in service to \u2018getting things done.\u2019\r\n\r\nAs Kyle Powys Whyte (2019), a climate scientist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in Oklahoma, points out, \u201cWhen people feel something is really urgent, or crisis-oriented, they tend to forget about their relationships with others,\u201d and this can lead to a reproduction of the kinds of colonial practices that shaped the destructive patterns of the past centuries. \"In fact,\u201d writes Whyte, \u201cmost phases of colonialism are ones where the colonizing society is freaked out about a crisis\u2026\u201d (Whyte, 2019; Gilpin, 2019).\r\n\r\nAnd yet, strong relationships are essential not only for sustained partnerships of climate adaptation projects, but also for creating the kinds of solutions and problem solving that is so important at this time.\r\n\r\nAs Whyte (2019) describes, qualities of \u201cconsent, trust, accountability, and reciprocity\u201d are essential to facing the climate crisis in a way that advances environmental justice for Indigenous peoples \u2026 \u00a0\u00a0Indigenous traditions\u2026 view the very topic of climate change as connected to these qualities, which are sometimes referred to as kin relationships\u201d (p. 1).","rendered":"<p>In many cases, the methods outlined below may feel like a detour or a \u2018nice to have\u2019 that we can\u2019t afford given the urgency of the climate crisis. However, it is particularly important, given the urgency of the climate crisis, to watch for the temptation to skip over good process in service to \u2018getting things done.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>As Kyle Powys Whyte (2019), a climate scientist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in Oklahoma, points out, \u201cWhen people feel something is really urgent, or crisis-oriented, they tend to forget about their relationships with others,\u201d and this can lead to a reproduction of the kinds of colonial practices that shaped the destructive patterns of the past centuries. &#8220;In fact,\u201d writes Whyte, \u201cmost phases of colonialism are ones where the colonizing society is freaked out about a crisis\u2026\u201d (Whyte, 2019; Gilpin, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>And yet, strong relationships are essential not only for sustained partnerships of climate adaptation projects, but also for creating the kinds of solutions and problem solving that is so important at this time.<\/p>\n<p>As Whyte (2019) describes, qualities of \u201cconsent, trust, accountability, and reciprocity\u201d are essential to facing the climate crisis in a way that advances environmental justice for Indigenous peoples \u2026 \u00a0\u00a0Indigenous traditions\u2026 view the very topic of climate change as connected to these qualities, which are sometimes referred to as kin relationships\u201d (p. 1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-122","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":116,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/strategicdialogueengagmentclimateadapt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/strategicdialogueengagmentclimateadapt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/strategicdialogueengagmentclimateadapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/strategicdialogueengagmentclimateadapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/strategicdialogueengagmentclimateadapt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/strategicdialogueengagmentclimateadapt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/122\/revisions\/126"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/strategicdialogueengagmentclimateadapt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/116"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/strategicdialogueengagmentclimateadapt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/122\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/strategicdialogueengagmentclimateadapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/strategicdialogueengagmentclimateadapt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/strategicdialogueengagmentclimateadapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/strategicdialogueengagmentclimateadapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}