Generative Refusal: Creative Practice and Relational Indigenous Sovereignty
Abstract This article critiques narrow conceptions of sovereignty, while holding up Indigenous practices of sovereign place making and creative relational sovereign enactment. I come into this contestation by thinking through creative acts of sovereignty as a generative praxis. Informed by these pra...
Published in: | Borderlands Journal |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
2020
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.21307/borderlands-2020-013 https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.21307/borderlands-2020-013 |
Summary: | Abstract This article critiques narrow conceptions of sovereignty, while holding up Indigenous practices of sovereign place making and creative relational sovereign enactment. I come into this contestation by thinking through creative acts of sovereignty as a generative praxis. Informed by these practices offers a new way of thinking about sovereignty as practiced, generative and relational. Grounded practices of Indigenous peoples in Denendeh (Northwest Territories, Canada) and the authors own experience as a settler living and working in Denendeh, this article also offers a space to think through ‘refusability’ as relational response. |
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