Search Results for Indigenous epistemologies

...Candy Martínez Abstract Anthropologists and social scientists have examined how Oaxacans oppose conventional models of health, insisting on maintaining their own epistemologies for practical, spiritual, and economic reasons. Much of the academic literature does not consider Indigenous knowledge...

...Esther Oluwashina Ajayi-Lowo Abstract In the quest to create global maternal health care protocols, African Indigenous birthing epistemologies are often overlooked in research, policy, and advocacy aiming to improve maternal health and reduce the maternal mortality ratio (MMR). The global maternal...

... of caring for forests in Northeast Indian Indigenous communities. 3 Thus, we open this issue with Jenny L. Davis’s (Chickasaw) exegetical poem “How the Oak Tree Came to Be,” which centers Indigenous epistemologies, ontologies, and survivance with five deceptively brief stanzas that brilliantly convey...

... about Indigeneity. We invited activist, creative, and scholarly submissions, as well as overlaps of these, that both include and decenter the Americas in thinking about Indigeneity. We sought submissions that would create space for voices about gendered Indigenous epistemologies and practices grounded...

... the mantle of the universal human citizen-subject, a status usually reserved for white men within the Western political tradition. In contrast, some of her supporters, particularly Native Hawaiian protestors, formulated their politics in terms of gendered Indigenous epistemologies. Mink also brought...

... inconsistently engages Indigenous epistemologies and other decolonial intellectual traditions to theorize embodiment and community formations (Driskill et al. 2011 ; Smith 2010 ). By contrast, the relational worldviews espoused by many Indigenous knowledge keepers, especially Indigenous feminists, recognize...

...Devaleena Das Abstract Examining the critical genealogy of transnational feminism, this essay proposes a feminist theoretical model called quilted epistemology derived from the Black feminist art of quilting. Aiming to strengthen transnational feminism, quilted epistemology intends to resolve some...

... by the Norwegian government (Fjellheim 2020 ; Perl, Howlett, and Ramesh 2018 ). Consequently, a culture of domination persists, undermining the Saami’s rights. For Indigenous communities, dehumanization through denial of their meaning systems and self-determination materializes in epistemological and ontological...

... not suffice to address the pressing gender justice challenges in a complex and interdependent world, despite the UN's glossy efforts. A Transfeminist perspective strongly emphasizes the diversity of gender(s), drawing from Afrofeminist, Indigenous feminist, and postcolonial feminist epistemologies...

...Elena Ruíz Abstract This article addresses the experience of precarity and vulnerability in racialized gender-based violence from a structural perspective. Informed by Indigenous social theory and anticolonial approaches to intergenerational trauma that link settler colonial violence...

.... These struggles have a history across European empires that must be acknowledged as critical to existing genealogies of Black, Women-of-Color, and Indigenous feminist epistemologies and praxes. As Black European scholars who live and work in Turtle Island, we recognize that we are situated on a site...

... engaged with the theoretical, epistemological, or methodological orientations of Indigenous studies. I am immensly grateful to Joyce Green for her thoughtful and generative interventions to a first iteration of the article. Earlier versions of this article were also presented at the Canadian...

... of Black women, as they run counter to the established order and are nourished by a Black African cosmovision or point of view, constitutive of Afro-Brazilian civilizational values. The latter elements form the basis for their thought, supplying thematic content and an epistemological perspective...

...Ashjan Ajour Abstract Drawing from feminist Indigenous decolonizing authors who developed critical approaches to the research process, this article elucidates the methodological approach that emerged from the author’s encounter with the former hunger strikers in Israeli prisons in colonized...

... in an effort to build from Latina feminist epistemologies and contribute to scholarship that challenges European and modernist modes of knowledge production centered on normative, empiricist conceptions of truth. Black, Chicana, Indigenous, Latina, and women of color feminisms urge us to consider the role...

... of feminist scholars whose work centered political economy and performance; postcoloniality and empire; racialization and indigeneity; as well as traversed borders of nation, ideology, space, and time. Our intellectual praxis unfolded at the intersections of transnationalism and feminisms, yet the field...

... is often lauded for helping to fill in the gaps of the dominant historical archive by providing access to silenced histories of the Americas, yet contemporary Chicana/o texts such as Like Son also challenge the epistemologies and power structures that undergird institutional archives. Works Cited...

... for personal, epistemological, and political purposes. In moving from Narendra Modi’s India to Donald Trump’s America, I found myself in the midst of a right-wing restoration. Moving to the United States meant experiencing the heightening of racialized right-wing politics, whereas in India I lived...

... indigenous epistemologies that presume abundance, generosity, and interconnectivity. The give-away works against the grain ofU.S. culture's competitive individualism to generate a relationship to the future beyond those heteronormative imaginaries critiqued by queer theorists.13This framework casts the past...

...Nancy Marie Mithlo Abstract Despite the prevailing acceptance of homogenized global sensibilities in media productions, many American Indian and other indigenous artists continue to articulate a sovereign, bounded, and discrete identity based on land, family, and memory. Both material (embodied...