This book explores how Indigenous communities are enacting Indigenous resurgence in this era of reconciliation.
What would Indigenous resurgence look like if the parameters were not set with a focus on the state, settlers, or an achievement of reconciliation? Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation explores the central concerns and challenges facing Indigenous nations in their resurgence efforts, while also mapping the gaps and limitations of both reconciliation and resurgence frameworks.
The essays in this collection centre the work of Indigenous communities, knowledge, and strategies for resurgence and, where appropriate, reconciliation. The book challenges narrow interpretations of indigeneity and resurgence, asking readers to take up a critical analysis of how settler colonial and heteronormative framings have infiltrated our own ways of relating to our selves, one another, and to place. The authors seek to (re)claim Indigenous relationships to the political and offer critical self-reflection to ensure Indigenous resurgence efforts do not reproduce the very conditions and contexts from which liberation is sought.
Illuminating the interconnectivity between and across life in all its forms, this important collection calls on readers to think expansively and critically about Indigenous resurgence in an age of reconciliation.
Edited by:
Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark,
Aimée Craft,
Hōkūlani K. Aikau
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9781487544607
ISBN 10: 148754460X
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 28 April 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Artist Statement Lianne Marie Leda Charlie Introduction: Generating a Critical Resurgence Together Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark Part 1: Realizing Resurgence Together 1. Beyond the Grammar of Settler Apologies Mishuana Goeman 2. Spirit and Matter: Resurgence as Rising and (Re)creation as Ethos Dian Million 3. Removing Weeds so Natives Can Grow: A Metaphor Reconsidered Hōkūlani K. Aikau 4. (Ad)dressing Wounds: Expansive Kinship Inside and Out Dallas Hunt Part 2: Claiming Our Relationships to the Political 5. Beyond Rights and Wrongs: Towards Resurgence of a Treaty-Based Ethic of Relationality Gina Starblanket 6. Thawing the Frozen Rights Theory: On Rejecting Interpretations of Reconciliation and Resurgence That Define Indigenous Peoples as Frozen in a Pre-colonial Past Aimée Craft 7. Nêhiyaw Hunting Pedagogies and Revitalizing Indigenous Laws Darcy Lindberg Part 3: Narrating Reconciliation and Resurgence 8. Thinking through Resurgence Together: A Conversation between Sarah Hunt/Tłaliłila’ogwa and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Sarah Hunt/Tłaliłila’ogwa and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 9. Truth-Telling amidst Reconciliation Discourses: How Stories Reshape Our Relationships Jeff Corntassel 10. Political Action in the Time of Reconciliation Corey Snelgrove and Matthew Wildcat Part 4: Reconciling Lands, Bodies, and Gender 11. Body Land, Water, and Resurgence in Oaxaca Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez 12. To Respect Indigenous Territorial Protocol: Hosting the Olympic Games on Indigenous Lands in Settler Colonial Canada Christine O’Bonsawin 13. “Descendants of the Original Lords of the Soil”: Gender, Kinship, and an Indignant Model of Métis Nationhood Daniel Voth 14. Red Utopia Billy-Ray Belcourt Contributors
Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark is an associate professor of Indigenous governance at the University of Victoria. Aimée Craft is an associate professor in the faculty of law at the University of Ottawa. Hōkūlani K. Aikau is a professor of Indigenous governance at the University of Victoria.
Reviews for Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation
The relationship between reconciliation and resurgence is a complicated and, at times, deeply contested one. This volume does an excellent job of situating itself within the wider literature on resurgence and reconciliation and their conflicted and/or complimentary relationship. This is an important contribution to a fraught conversation, and it provides many different perspectives that help to, if not resolve, then guide the conversation beyond its current roadblocks towards something better. - Joshua Nichols, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law, McGill University This book is an undoubtedly critical, original, and powerful contribution to the field of Indigenous studies and beyond. With sound scholarship, the contributors show us how disentangling from reconciliation discourses is not only a tool of critique, but also a methodology for understanding how settler concepts of territoriality and authority have shaped Indigenous peoples' understandings of themselves, their governments, and their relationships to land and to one another. - Shiri Pasternak, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Toronto Metropolitan University
