Growing Papaya Trees : Nurturing Indigenous Solutions for Climate Displacement

Dr. Jessica Hernandez offers readers an Indigenous, Global-South lens on the climate crisis, delivering a compelling and urgent exploration of its causes—and its costs. She shares how the impacts of colonial climate catastrophe—from warming oceans to forced displacement of settler ontologies—can only be addressed at the root if we reorient toward Indigenous science and follow the lead of Indigenous peoples and communities. Growing Papaya Trees explores: Energy as a sociopolitical issue The interconnectedness of natural disasters, sociopolitical turmoil, and forced migration Our oceans, our forests, and our Indigenous futures Moving Indigenous science from mere acknowledgement into real action How to nourish Indigenous roots when displaced beyond borders Dr. Hernandez asks: what does it mean to be Indigenous when we’re separated from our lands? How do we nurture future generations knowing they, too, will have to live away from their ancestral places? She illuminates that cultures are not lost, even amid genocide, turmoil, war, and climate displacement—and shows us how to be better kin to each other against the ecological violence, colonial oppression, and distorted status quo of the Global North.Author: Hernandez, Jessica,author Contributors: Hernandez, Jessica,author Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 280 Publication Date: Release Date: Languages: English,Published,English,Original Language,Englis Published/Release Date: 11 Nov 2025 Format: Paperback / softback Publisher/Studio/Brand: North Atlantic Books,U.S. Author/Director/Artist: Jessica Hernandez Dimension (cm): 228x152x14 mm Package Dimension (cm): 17x227x152 mm Item Weight (g): 369 Package Weight (g): 360