Entering into relationship: Difference between revisions

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

This question ties up matter of encountering each other, with questions of responsibility within such encounter. Keavy Martin explores what acknowledging or honouring relationships as a decolonial practice might look like through the ethics of hunting and eating and applies her insights to literature studies (ibid).

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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
+This question ties up matter of encountering each other, with questions of responsibility within such encounter.
-by the desire not to be colonizers. Yet when this priority compels us to shy
+Keavy Martin explores what acknowledging or honouring relationships as a decolonial practice might look like through the ethics of hunting and eating and applies her insights to literature studies (ibid).
-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