A report title page, which reads: "The social psychology of human values and Indigenous perspectives on social and environmental justice"

The social psychology of human values and Indigenous perspectives on social and environmental justice

August 2024
Common Cause Foundation

This short report summarises some of what we have learnt at Common Cause Foundation after several intense conversations with Indigenous people who were either already using the Schwartz values model in their social or environmental justice campaigning, or who were introduced to the model over the course of these conversations.

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  • You’re interested in how our work, rooted in social psychology, might interface with other ways-of-knowing
  • You’re interested in thinking about how social and environmental crises originate in the urge to dominate

Key Takeaways

  1. Some aspects of the Schwartz values model are problematic for Indigenous people with whom we have dialogued – perhaps pointing to important differences in the ways that some values are understood.
  2. Our conversations led us to search for the origins of multiple forms of social and environmental crisis in the drive to dominate and oppress.
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