Land back : relational landscapes of Indigenous resistance across the Americas / Heather Dorries and Michelle Daigle, editors.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Dorries, Heather, 1979- editor.

Daigle, Michelle (Professor of Indigenous political and social geography), editor.

Dumbarton Oaks, host institution, issuing body.

Conference Name:

"Land Back: Indigenous Landscapes of Resurgence and Freedom" (Symposium) (2021 : Online), creator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--America--Congresses.

Indigenous peoples.

Human ecology--America--Congresses.

Human ecology.

Indigenous peoples--America--Politics and government--Congresses.

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc--America--Congresses.

Indigenous peoples--Land tenure.

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.

Indigenous peoples--Politics and government.

America.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Physical Description:

xi, 228 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Relational landscapes of Indigenous resistance across the Americas

Land back : Indigenous landscapes of resurgence and freedom.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, [2024]

Summary:

"Relationships with land are fundamental components of Indigenous worldviews, politics, and identity. The disruption of land relations is a defining feature of colonialism; colonial governments and capitalist industries have violently dispossessed Indigenous lands, and have undermined Indigenous political authority through the production of racialized and gendered hierarchies of difference. Consequently, Indigenous resistance and visions for justice and liberation are bound up with land and land-body relationships that challenge colonial power. "Land back" has become a slogan for Indigenous land protectors across the Americas, reflecting how relations to land are foundational to calls for decolonization and liberation. Land Back: Indigenous Landscapes of Resurgence and Freedom highlights the ways Indigenous peoples and anti-colonial co-resistors understand land relations for political resurgence and freedom across the Americas. Contributors place Indigenous practices of freedom within the particularities of Indigenous place-based laws, cosmologies, and diplomacies, while also demonstrating how Indigeneity is shaped across colonial borders. Collectively, they examine the relationship between language, Indigenous ontologies, and land reclamation; Indigenous ecology and restoration; the interconnectivity of environmental exploitation and racial, class, and gender exploitation; Indigenous diasporic movement; community urban planning; transnational organizing and relational anti-racist place-making; and the role of storytelling and children in movements for liberation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Thaïsa Way

Introduction / Michelle Daigle and Heather Dorries

Politics of resistance within and beyond colonial borders. A hemispheric approach to relational and embodied anti-racist placemaking / Sofia Zaragocin ; Landscapes of struggle: katarista perspectives on the environment in Bolivia, 1960-1990 / Olivia Arigho-Stiles ; Anti-colonial landscapes: land and the emergence of Miskitu people's territorial resistance in the Moskitia / Ruth H. Matamoros Mercado ; Placemaking as Indigenous resurgence in the Oceanic diaspora / James Miller ; Theory through hide tanning: resurgence and Indigenous mobility / Mandee McDonald

Landscapes of relationality: ecology, restoration, and Indigenous futures. The Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm: a ground for cultural restoration / Chief Vincent Mann and Anita Bakshi ; Ottawa governance through Anishinaabe ecological restoration: nmé, ethnobotany, and memory / Natasha Myhal ; Language, territory, and law: Mapuzugun as the basis for Mapuche spatial planning and territorial reconstruction / Miguel Melin and Magdalena Ugarte ; Moving with land: BlackIndigenous stories of place / Nnenna Odim and Pavithra Vasudevan.

Notes:

"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XLV."--Page preceding title page.

"Volume based on papers presented at the symposium "Land Back : Indigenous Landscapes of Resurgence and Freedom," organized by Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., and held virtually from April 29- [May 13, May 27,] June 10, 2021"--Title page verso.

"[C]olloquiarchs Michelle Daigle and Heather Dorries (both of the University of Toronto)."--Foreword, page ix.

"[T]his symposium was originally intended to be in person but due to COVID-19 was transformed into a series of four gatherings, each led by Daigle and Dorries alongside a remarkable community of authors, discussants, and participants."--Foreword, page x.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780884025016

0884025012

OCLC:

1415801730