Indigenous Stewardship: Religious Praxis and “Unsettling” Settler Ecologies

Settler colonialism has been described as a structure, not an event, meaning it is sustained over time through discursive and material means. As settlers began to monopolize lands, new ecologies were built from Indigenous ones, transforming the landscape but also human relations with lands. I expand...

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Autore principale: Avalos, Natalie (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
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Pubblicazione: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2023
In: Political theology
Anno: 2023, Volume: 24, Fascicolo: 7, Pagine: 614-631
(sequenze di) soggetti normati:B USA / Colonialismo / Colono / Religione tradizionale / Tradizione
Notazioni IxTheo:BB Religioni indigene (religioni di gruppi etnici)
CG Cristianesimo e politica
KAH Età moderna
KAJ Età contemporanea
KBQ America settentrionale
Altre parole chiave:B Indigenous stewardship
B Settler Colonialism
B Indigenous religious traditions
B Indigeneity
B settler ecology
B native sovereignty
B Decolonization
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Riepilogo:Settler colonialism has been described as a structure, not an event, meaning it is sustained over time through discursive and material means. As settlers began to monopolize lands, new ecologies were built from Indigenous ones, transforming the landscape but also human relations with lands. I expand on Kyle Whyte’s concept of settler ecologies to understand these ecologies as drawing from a metaphysic, a Christian cosmo-logic of divine hierarchy that positions some humans as having ontological superiority over the natural world and other humans. I draw from decolonial, Indigenous, and settler colonial theory to explore how settler ecologies reterritorialize the land through racial-religious formations, what Aboriginal scholar, Aileen Moreton-Robinson calls the white possessive, and become naturalized in a modern context through secular, biopolitical discourses of development. I argue that these settler ecologies are “unsettled” through the sacred directive of stewardship movements that emerge from the unifying, intersubjective relations of ceremonial life.
ISSN:1743-1719
Riferimento:Kommentar in "Unsettling the Settled: A Response (2023)"
Comprende:Enthalten in: Political theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2023.2212473