Entering into relationship: Difference between revisions

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'Is “polite” refusal ultimately a colonizing action?' (Martin, 2016)

With this question Keavy Martin ties up questions of responsibility with the matter of Inuit and non-Inuit encountering each other. She explores what acknowledging or honouring relationships as a decolonial practice might look like, through the ethics of hunting and eating of animals (ibid). She links the matters of such bodily sharing, with sustenance and survival - with renewal of life. "We are reliant upon the bodies of others", and our bodies are always transformed in the process of such sharing, whether it is one body giving itself to another - or one body giving birth to another (ibid, p. 452). Sharing is life.

Although such bodily sharing has been part of my experiences in the communities of Gjoa Haven and Coral Harbour through the consumption of Seal meat, Arctic Char, Caribou and Muktuk, this landmark insight refers rather to a less consumptive engagement. Entering into relationship also means partaking in the reciprocal customs of gifting and sharing, and allowing yourself to be transformed by those processes.

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-Is the reluctance of southern students to share the food of an Inuit host
+'Is “polite” refusal ultimately a colonizing action?' (Martin, 2016)
-part of this same process? Is “polite” refusal ultimately a colonizing action? To
-be sure, most qallunaat students visiting Pangnirtung are strongly motivated
-by the desire not to be colonizers. Yet when this priority compels us to shy
-away from potentially complicated and entangling encounters, we may wind
-up rehearsing those individualist and separatist practices that ultimately feed
-the colonial process by liberating its agents from responsibility to others. The
-solution to this conundrum would be the flip-side of Donald’s theorem: that
-decolonization might be understood as the extended process of acknowledging
-or honouring relationship. But what does that look like? And how might it be
-enacted within Indigenous literary
-Keavy Martin quote  2016
+With this question Keavy Martin ties up questions of responsibility with the matter of Inuit and non-Inuit encountering each other. She explores what acknowledging or honouring relationships as a decolonial practice might look like, through the ethics of hunting and eating of animals (ibid). She links the matters of such bodily sharing, with sustenance and survival - with renewal of life. "We are reliant upon the bodies of others", and our bodies are always transformed in the process of such sharing, whether it is one body giving itself to another - or one body giving birth to another (ibid, p. 452). Sharing is life.
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+Although such bodily sharing has been part of my experiences in the communities of Gjoa Haven and Coral Harbour through the consumption of Seal meat, Arctic Char, Caribou and Muktuk, this landmark insight refers rather to a less consumptive engagement. Entering into relationship also means partaking in the reciprocal customs of gifting and sharing, and allowing yourself to be transformed by those processes.
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