Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land

A Trickster Methodology for Decolonizing Environmental Ethics and Indigenous Futures

Brian Burkhart (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2019
Michigan State University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61186-330-7 (ISBN)

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Land is key to the operations of coloniality, but the power of the land is also the key anticolonial force that grounds Indigenous liberation. This work is an attempt to articulate the nature of land as a material, conceptual, and ontological foundation for Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and valuing. As a foundation of valuing, land forms the framework for a conceptualization of Indigenous environmental ethics as an anticolonial force for sovereign Indigenous futures. This text is an important contribution in the efforts to Indigenize Western philosophy, particularly in the context of settler colonialism in the United States. It breaks significant ground in articulating Indigenous ways of knowing and valuing to Western philosophy—not as artifact that Western philosophy can incorporate into its canon, but rather as a force of anticolonial Indigenous liberation. Ultimately, Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land shines light on a possible road for epistemically, ontologically, and morally sovereign Indigenous futures.

Brian Burkhart is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma where he mentors PhD students studying Native American and Indigenous philosophy. He was an Associate Professor and Director of American Indian studies at California State University, Northridge, from 2010 to 2018. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma but was born and raised in the Navajo Nation of Arizona. Burkhart was one of the early members of the American Philosophical Association’s Native American and Indigenous Philosophy committee and was chair of that committee from 2011 to 2015. He is a Southern powwow singer and Cherokee hymn singer.

Preface
Introduction

PART 1. The Coloniality of Western Philosophy and Indigenous Resistance through the Land
Chapter 1. Philosophical Colonizing of People and Land
Chapter 2. Indigenizing Native Studies: Beyond the Delocality of Academic Discourse
Chapter 3. Refragmenting Philosophy through the Land: What Black Elk and Iktomi Can Teach Us about Locality

PART 2. Indigenizing Morality through the Land: Decolonizing Environmental Thought and Indigenous Futures
Interlude
Chapter 4. Everything Is Sacred: Iktomi Lessons in Ethics without Value and Value without Anthropocentrism
Chapter 5. The Metaphysics of Morality in Locality: The Always Already Being in Motion of Kinship
Chapter 6. The Naturalness of Morality in Locality: Relationships, Reciprocity, and Respect

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.08.2019
Reihe/Serie	American Indian Studies
Verlagsort	East Lansing, MI
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-61186-330-9 / 1611863309
ISBN-13	978-1-61186-330-7 / 9781611863307
Zustand	Neuware