Indigenous Storytelling and Connections to the Land

Name: Indigenous Storytelling and Connections to the Land
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ISBN: 9783031655906

This book builds on the perspective that, for Indigenous peoples, relations to the land are familial, intimate, intergenerational, spiritual, instructive, and life nourishing, and it is these relations that Western societies sought to destroy as part of their colonial projects of territorial conquest and exploitation of resources. Positioning storytelling as a research methodology and a model of decolonial practice, this edited collection seeks to explore the following key questions: how does Indigenous storytelling contribute to understanding Indigenous identity and the crucial role of the land in Indigenous ways of life? How can Indigenous storytelling subvert colonial narratives of the land? How can Indigenous storytelling contribute to addressing colonial exploitations of the land and its resources? Can Indigenous storytelling become a rich mode for the investigation of current climate crises? And, finally, how does storytelling assist Indigenous peoples in restoring their

Forfatter :

Mussi, Francesca

ISBN:

9783031655906

Publisert:

2024

Språk:

Engelsk

Type:

Innbundet

Forlag:

Palgrave Macmillan