Indigenizing Philosophy Through the Land: A Trickster Methodology for Decolonizing Environmental Ethics and Indigenous Futures

Author(s)Brian Burkhart
AbstractLand is key to the operations of coloniality, but the power of the land is also the key anticolonial force that grounds Indigenous liberation. This work is an attempt to articulate the nature of land as a material, conceptual, and ontological foundation for Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and valuing. As a foundation of valuing, land forms the framework for a conceptualization of Indigenous environmental ethics as an anticolonial force for sovereign Indigenous futures. This text is an important contribution in the efforts to Indigenize Western philosophy, particularly in the context of settler colonialism in the United States. It breaks significant ground in articulating Indigenous ways of knowing and valuing to Western philosophy—not as artifact that Western philosophy can incorporate into its canon, but rather as a force of anticolonial Indigenous liberation. Ultimately, Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land shines light on a possible road for epistemically, ontologically, and morally sovereign Indigenous futures.
Keywordscoloniality; Indigenous liberation; Indigenous ways of knowing; environmental ethics; decolonization 
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Date Published September 1, 2019
PublisherMichigan State University Press
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.14321/j.ctvkjb3xp
ISBN9781611863307
Google Scholar Linkhttps://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=5474934574506087496&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5
Open Access?No

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