Not Engaging Indigenous Scholarship
Although it is possible to think about correspondence, intra-dependency, possibility , and response-ability while never reading a page of Indigenous scholarship, this would be an in-appropriate path to choose when working on questions of knowledge relating, situated in community-based research.
To only rely on "New Materialist" scholarship, or comparable schools, thinkers and scientist that contributed to the western genealogy of generative ontologies, is to erase the rich history of Indigenous thinking that contributes to such thinking, and Indigenous scholarship itself[1][2][3].
In my research I put western scholarship in dialogue with Indigenous scholarship.
- ↑ Watts, V. (2013). Indigenous place-thought and agency amongst humans and non humans (First Woman and Sky Woman go on a European world tour!). Decolonization: Indigeneity, education & society, 2(1).
- ↑ Todd, Z. (2016). An indigenous feminist's take on the ontological turn:‘Ontology’is just another word for colonialism. Journal of historical sociology, 29(1), 4-22.
- ↑ Rosiek, J. L., Snyder, J., & Pratt, S. L. (2020). The new materialisms and Indigenous theories of non-human agency: Making the case for respectful anti-colonial engagement. Qualitative inquiry, 26(3-4), 331-346.
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