Being together in place : indigenous coexistence in a more than human world

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Being together in place : indigenous coexistence in a more than human world

Larsen, Soren C. (Soren Christiansen), (author.). Johnson, Jay T., (author.). Wildcat, Daniel R., (author of foreword.).

Summary:

Being Together in Place explores the landscapes that convene Native and non-Native people into sustained and difficult negotiations over their radically different interests and concerns. Grounded in three sites-the Cheslatta-Carrier traditional territory in British Columbia; the Wakarusa Wetlands in northeastern Kansas; and the Waitangi Treaty Grounds in Aotearoa/New Zealand-this book highlights the challenging, tentative, and provisional work of coexistence around such contested spaces as wetlands, treaty grounds, fishing spots, recreation areas, cemeteries, heritage trails, and traditional village sites. At these sites, activists learn how to articulate and defend their intrinsic and life-supportive ways of being, particularly to those who are intent on damaging or destroying these places. Using ethnographic research and a geographic perspective, Soren C. Larsen and Jay T. Johnson show how the communities in these regions challenge the power relations that structure the ongoing (post)colonial encounter in liberal democratic settler-states. Emerging from their conversations with activists was a distinctive sense that the places for which they cared had agency, a callthat pulled them into dialogue, relationships, and action with human and nonhuman others. This being-together-in-place, they find, speaks in a powerful way to the vitalities of coexistence: where humans and nonhumans are working to decolonize their relationships; where reciprocal guardianship is being stitched back together in new and unanticipated ways; and where a new kind of place thinkingis emerging on the borders of colonial power.

Record details

ISBN: 9781517902223
ISBN: 1517902223
ISBN: 9781517902216
ISBN: 1517902215
Physical Description: xiii, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-242) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Introduction: Being-together-in-place -- Part I. "The spirit of my ancestors" : Cheslatta Carrier Nation traditional territory -- Pathways of coexistence -- Sacred ground -- Part II. "You can't stop the ceremonies" : the Wakarusa Wetlands -- Ceremony is protest, protest is ceremony -- Reciprocal gaurdianship -- Part III. "Hakoi ng'tahi/going forward together : Waitangi Treaty grounds, Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Treaty partnership -- Manaakitanga -- Conclusion: Coexistence in a more-than-human world -- Appendix: The Treaty of Waitangi/te Tiriti o Waitangi -- Glossary of Maori language terms.
Language Note:: Text in English.