From the Skin

Defending Indigenous Nations Using Theory and Praxis

Jerome Jeffery Clark, Elise Boxer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

292 Seiten

2023
University of Arizona Press (Verlag)
9780816542499 (ISBN)

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Demonstrates the real-world application of Indigenous theory to the work they do in their own communities and how this work is driven by urgency, responsibility, and justice - work that is from the skin.

In this volume, contributors demonstrate the real-world application of Indigenous theory to the work they do in their own communities and how this work is driven by urgency, responsibility, and justice--work that is from the skin.

In From the Skin, contributors describe how they apply the theories and concepts of Indigenous studies to their communities, programs, and organizations. These individuals reflect on and describe the ways the discipline has informed and influenced their community programs and actions. They show the ways these efforts advance disciplinary theories, methodologies, and praxes. Their chapters cover topics that include librarianship, health programs, community organizing, knowledge recovery, youth programming, and gendered violence. Through their examples, the contributors show how they negotiate their peoples’ knowledge systems with knowledge produced in Indigenous studies programs, demonstrating how they understand the relationship between their people, their nations, and academia.

Editors J. Jeffery Clark and Elise Boxer propose and develop the term practitioner-theorist to describe how the contributors theorize and practice knowledge within and between their nations and academia. Because they live and exist in their community, these practitioner-theorists always consider how their thinking and actions benefit their people and nations. The practitioner-theorists of this volume envision and labor toward decolonial futures where Indigenous peoples and nations exist on their own terms.

Contributors
Elise Boxer
Randi Lynn Boucher-Giago
Shawn Brigman
J. Jeffery Clark
Nick Estes
Eric Hardy
Shalene Joseph
Jennifer Marley
Brittani R. Orona
Alexander Soto

J. Jeffery Clark (DinÉ), assistant professor of English and Indigenous studies at Arizona State University, studies DinÉ resistance to domination. His research areas include Indigenous stories, decolonization, settler colonialism, and Indigenous futurity and imagination. Elise Boxer (Dakota), associate professor of history and Native American studies at the University of South Dakota, studies Mormon settler colonialism and indigeneity. Her most important work happens as a mother to three young boys.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
Vorwort	Nick Estes
Zusatzinfo	8 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	Tucson
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780816542499 / 9780816542499
Zustand	Neuware