'When the land is sick, we are sick.' This compendium by the Land Body Ecologies collective explores solastalgia, the psychological distress caused by environmental change for land-dependent and Indigenous communities. The exploitation of natural resources under colonialism has consistently marginalised and dispossessed communities around the world whose ways of life are based on the land. Environmental changes, from climate change to so-called conservation measures, have forcibly displaced many Indigenous people from their homelands, thereby preventing them from practising their cultures. Starting from the concept of solastalgia, where land and the human body are sites of simultaneous trauma, the Land Body Ecologies collective present reflections from communities in Uganda, Kenya, Thailand, India and the Arctic. Through creative formats, from recipes and song lyrics to how-to guides, they propose cultural practices as central to the survival, revival and healing of people and place.
