Movement as Medicine and Screendance as Survivance: Indigenous Reclamation and Innovation During Covid-19

Mattingly, Kate; Wakpa, Tria Blu

doi:10.18061/ijsd.v12i0.7821

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“…Given the historical and ongoing settler-capitalist dynamics in universities, wholescale transformations of implicit cultural norms are needed in order to actually welcome in the broader public, including dismantling white supremacy culture (Jones and Okun 2001) and providing much greater accommodations for different (dis)abilities such as live transcription and ASL interpretation. Additionally, not everyone has internet access, which is again disproportionately the case in Indigenous communities (Duarte 2017;Mattingly and Blu Wakpa 2021).…”

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Performativity, Possibility, and Land Acknowledgments in Academia: Community-Engaged Work as Decolonial Praxis in the COVID-19 Context

Roth

Wakpa

2023

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At the intersection of dance, performance, and Indigenous studies, this essay reflects on how an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles—with the support of a graduate student researcher—has aimed to put an Indigenous land acknowledgment into praxis through community-engaged work. In academic settings, land acknowledgments are often given prior to an event and may circulate on written materials, such as event programs, syllabi, letterhead, departmental and research centre websites, and email signatures. Based on Indigenous protocols, these statements typically identify the original Indigenous peoples whose land the university currently occupies; they should also be created in collaboration with Indigenous leaders from the tribe(s). Indigenous land acknowledgments can be important because they directly combat the injustice of settler-capitalist, mainstream discourses that often obscure Indigenous peoples and practices or relegate them to the historical past. Yet, Indigenous people and Indigenous studies scholars have critiqued non-Native land acknowledgments as “performative.” Without direct material benefits to Indigenous peoples, land acknowledgments can serve as empty gestures that “perform” university commitments to anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion. In contrast to the “performative” as an empty gesture, the fields of performance and dance studies frequently theorize “performativity” as a material action that can function both hegemonically and subversively. This essay argues that community-engaged research, teaching, and service—which the authors view holistically—are key ways to begin or further the process of putting a university’s land acknowledgment into action.

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Performativity, Possibility, and Land Acknowledgments in Academia: Community-Engaged Work as Decolonial Praxis in the COVID-19 Context

Roth

Wakpa

2023

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“…Such speech which neither conforms to modern/ colonial traditions of theory-making, theory or formal speech instead, enfleshes dignified resistance and practices of a politics of life-making in which racialised and feminised subjects come into being-knowing-creating otherwise. Here theory and language as world-making is of and in the flesh and weaved through ceremony, dance, poetry, music, body-magic (Mattingly and Wakpa, 2021). In our special edition it is voice as (oral) story, metaphor and poetry that comes to the fore as such enfleshment of speech as onto-epistemological political difference.…”

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Yes, We Speak, Si Tenemos Voz: On Refusing Epistemological Terra-Nullius

Motta¹,

González²

2023

Journal of Critical Southern Studies

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To claim that we do not have languages and tongues of our own and that we are forever rendered the misrepresented and disavowed Other by Speech is a claim that is intelligible only within the onto-epistemological terms and containments of (non)being and (un)knowing of Whiteness. We are not, therefore, in the collective co-weaving of this special edition and beyond tethered to deconstruction as critique which whilst demonstrates how we are rendered Other, nevertheless reinforces our muteness. Instead, we read, (t)race and (w)rite any deconstruction not from the abstract coloniality of an (un)knowing-(non)being Subject of modern/colonial (un)reason but from the presence/present of survivance and dignity in relation. Thus, our answer to our originary question out of which this special issue emerged is a resounding Yes. From this presence/present of survivance and dignity become legible and intelligible a different set of questions foregrounded within the reality of political-epistemological difference (against and beyond Whiteness) in the plural.

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Movement as Medicine and Screendance as Survivance: Indigenous Reclamation and Innovation During Covid-19

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Performativity, Possibility, and Land Acknowledgments in Academia: Community-Engaged Work as Decolonial Praxis in the COVID-19 Context

Performativity, Possibility, and Land Acknowledgments in Academia: Community-Engaged Work as Decolonial Praxis in the COVID-19 Context

Yes, We Speak, Si Tenemos Voz: On Refusing Epistemological Terra-Nullius

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