Norgaard, KariBacon, J.2018-09-062018-09-06https://hdl.handle.net/1794/23788Although rarely included in environmental sociology, settler colonialism significantly structures eco-social relations within the United States. This work considers the range of environmental practices and epistemologies influenced by settler colonial impositions in law, culture and discourse. In this dissertation I also introduce the term colonial ecological violence as a framework for considering the outcomes of this structuring in terms of the disproportionate impacts on Indigenous peoples and communities.en-USCreative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0-USColonial ecological violenceEnvironmental justiceSettler colonialismSocial movementsElectronic Thesis or Dissertation