Embodied Cartographies: Renegotiating Relationships with Land
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Published:February 2024
Part 4 examines how artists and organizers are resisting colonial concepts of space and creating models for more equitable engagement with the environment and one another. Contributions highlight water as a physical and narrative connector of land and its critical role in Pacific Islander communities; Indigenous stewardship practices and ways of relating to place beyond colonial notions of property ownership; cultural resilience in spite of climate gentrification and climate-based health inequities; disability justice as a spatial practice; destructive effects of socially constructed borders and boundaries; community storytelling and agricultural education as a pathway to liberation; decolonizing academic practices; archival counternarratives challenging the legacies of colonialism in photography; languages as rooted systems that tie people to land; and alternative economies focused on sustainability.