Composting Settler Colonial Distortions: Cultivating Critical Land-Based Family History

A collective of three intergenerational and intersectional educators engage in anti-colonial and/or decolonial processes of composting colonial distortions through Land-based conceptualizations of Critical Family History. Engaging in spiral discourse through Critical Personal Narratives, the authors...

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Main Authors: Kristen B. French, Amy Sanchez, Eddy Ullom
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-08-01
Series:Genealogy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/4/3/84
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spelling doaj-b84b2663ba14471d920dc3810f198c982020-11-25T03:23:48ZengMDPI AGGenealogy2313-57782020-08-014848410.3390/genealogy4030084Composting Settler Colonial Distortions: Cultivating Critical Land-Based Family HistoryKristen B. French0Amy Sanchez1Eddy Ullom2Elementary Education Department, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225, USAIndependent Scholar, Los Angeles, CA 91605, USAFairhaven College, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225, USAA collective of three intergenerational and intersectional educators engage in anti-colonial and/or decolonial processes of composting colonial distortions through Land-based conceptualizations of Critical Family History. Engaging in spiral discourse through Critical Personal Narratives, the authors theorize critical family history, Land-based learning, and Indigenous decolonial and anti-settler colonial frameworks. Using a process of unsettling reflexivity to analyze and interrupt settler colonial logics, the authors share their storied journeys, lessons learned and limitations for the cultivation of Critical Land-based Family History.https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/4/3/84colonial distortionscritical family historycritical personal narrativelandsettler-colonialismindigenous methodologies
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author Kristen B. French
Amy Sanchez
Eddy Ullom
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Amy Sanchez
Eddy Ullom
Composting Settler Colonial Distortions: Cultivating Critical Land-Based Family History
Genealogy
colonial distortions
critical family history
critical personal narrative
land
settler-colonialism
indigenous methodologies
author_facet Kristen B. French
Amy Sanchez
Eddy Ullom
author_sort Kristen B. French
title Composting Settler Colonial Distortions: Cultivating Critical Land-Based Family History
title_short Composting Settler Colonial Distortions: Cultivating Critical Land-Based Family History
title_full Composting Settler Colonial Distortions: Cultivating Critical Land-Based Family History
title_fullStr Composting Settler Colonial Distortions: Cultivating Critical Land-Based Family History
title_full_unstemmed Composting Settler Colonial Distortions: Cultivating Critical Land-Based Family History
title_sort composting settler colonial distortions: cultivating critical land-based family history
publisher MDPI AG
series Genealogy
issn 2313-5778
publishDate 2020-08-01
description A collective of three intergenerational and intersectional educators engage in anti-colonial and/or decolonial processes of composting colonial distortions through Land-based conceptualizations of Critical Family History. Engaging in spiral discourse through Critical Personal Narratives, the authors theorize critical family history, Land-based learning, and Indigenous decolonial and anti-settler colonial frameworks. Using a process of unsettling reflexivity to analyze and interrupt settler colonial logics, the authors share their storied journeys, lessons learned and limitations for the cultivation of Critical Land-based Family History.
topic colonial distortions
critical family history
critical personal narrative
land
settler-colonialism
indigenous methodologies
url https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/4/3/84
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