Indigenous Feminist Gikendassowin (Knowledge) Decolonization through Physical Activity. Book Review, J. Hall.
Tricia McGuire-Adams shows us why stories matter by exploring how they are central to our understanding of ourselves and how we think and feel about each other. Through exploring the way settler colonialism causes ill health she advances how Indigenous Peoples can resist existing narratives and rege...
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ftyorkstjohnir:oai:ray.yorksj.ac.uk:6238 2023-05-15T13:28:40+02:00 Indigenous Feminist Gikendassowin (Knowledge) Decolonization through Physical Activity. Book Review, J. Hall. Hall, Jenny 2021-08-04 text http://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/6238/ https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/6238/1/Book%20Review%20Jenny%20Hall%20Jun%202021.pdf https://www-tandfonline-com.yorksj.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1080/02614367.2021.1962394 https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2021.1962394 en eng Taylor & Francis https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/6238/1/Book%20Review%20Jenny%20Hall%20Jun%202021.pdf Hall, Jenny orcid:0000-0002-5200-4308 (2021) Indigenous Feminist Gikendassowin (Knowledge) Decolonization through Physical Activity. Book Review, J. Hall. Taylor & Francis, United Kingdom. doi:10.1080/02614367.2021.1962394 H Social Sciences (General) HM Sociology HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare Other NonPeerReviewed 2021 ftyorkstjohnir https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2021.1962394 2023-02-09T23:25:45Z Tricia McGuire-Adams shows us why stories matter by exploring how they are central to our understanding of ourselves and how we think and feel about each other. Through exploring the way settler colonialism causes ill health she advances how Indigenous Peoples can resist existing narratives and regenerate their health through processes of decolonisation. Decolonisation is meaningful and transformative resistance to the forces of colonialism that perpetuate the subjugation of minds, bodies and lands. She argues that rebuilding and restoring health can be achieved through Indigenous People reconnecting with ancestral knowledge and current stories of physical activity. She critiques settler-colonial stories that negatively portray Indigenous Peoples’ physical health and demonstrates how such narratives perpetuate inequality. By highlighting the way health disparity research documents the differences in health between non-Indigenous and Indigenous Peoples, she shows how this pathologizes Indigenous Peoples as ill. Moreover, by contrasting this with the way settler colonial notions of health are reified she exposes how Indigenous Peoples’ ancestral notions of health are subjugated. This has marginalising effects that disproportionately impacts Indigenous women by suppressing Indigenous Peoples’ cultural solutions to ill health. Through critical engagement with dibaajimowinan (stories founded in ancestral knowledge), McGuire-Adams theorises how narratives of the great physical strength and skill Indigenous People possessed through land-based activities such as fishing, trapping and hunting can have a decolonising effect. Focusing specifically on Indigenous women, she asks ‘Can physical activity that encompasses a decolonization approach be a catalyst for regenerative well-being for Anishinaabeg Women?’ (chapter 1). Text anishina* RaY - Research at York St John University Leisure Studies 41 2 296 297 |
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Tricia McGuire-Adams shows us why stories matter by exploring how they are central to our understanding of ourselves and how we think and feel about each other. Through exploring the way settler colonialism causes ill health she advances how Indigenous Peoples can resist existing narratives and regenerate their health through processes of decolonisation. Decolonisation is meaningful and transformative resistance to the forces of colonialism that perpetuate the subjugation of minds, bodies and lands. She argues that rebuilding and restoring health can be achieved through Indigenous People reconnecting with ancestral knowledge and current stories of physical activity. She critiques settler-colonial stories that negatively portray Indigenous Peoples’ physical health and demonstrates how such narratives perpetuate inequality. By highlighting the way health disparity research documents the differences in health between non-Indigenous and Indigenous Peoples, she shows how this pathologizes Indigenous Peoples as ill. Moreover, by contrasting this with the way settler colonial notions of health are reified she exposes how Indigenous Peoples’ ancestral notions of health are subjugated. This has marginalising effects that disproportionately impacts Indigenous women by suppressing Indigenous Peoples’ cultural solutions to ill health. Through critical engagement with dibaajimowinan (stories founded in ancestral knowledge), McGuire-Adams theorises how narratives of the great physical strength and skill Indigenous People possessed through land-based activities such as fishing, trapping and hunting can have a decolonising effect. Focusing specifically on Indigenous women, she asks ‘Can physical activity that encompasses a decolonization approach be a catalyst for regenerative well-being for Anishinaabeg Women?’ (chapter 1). |
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