Toward a Mi’kmaw Poetics of Place

Downey, Adrian M.

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“…Centering place-stories-or the search for them-in pedagogical contexts can serve to disrupt the erasure of Indigenous bodies/stories endemic to Western education (Nxumalo & Cedillo, 2017). Being able to read Land and place, however, is also a way of deepening an understanding of oneself (Downey, 2020) and of one's positionality (Downey et al, 2019). In my reading, Thomas's narrator is actively working toward becoming literate in reading Land-as are many others.…”

Section: Futures Becoming(s) and Literacies Of The Landmentioning

confidence: 98%

(Re)Envisioning Childhoods With Mi’kmaw Literatures

Downey

2022

J Child. Stud.

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A generative reading of four recent children’s books by Mi’kmaw authors through Indigenous and posthumanist lenses, this article suggests that Indigenous children’s literature works at envisioning a “very old” future and highlights the counter-hegemonic potential of that future in the current moment. First, a reading of the Mi’kmaw mythopoetic tradition as speculative fiction is presented. Second, becoming-with Land is discussed as a radical pedagogical future. Third, the tensions between Indigenous and posthumanist theories are discussed, along with the generative potential of those tensions. The article concludes by highlighting the power of the very old futures (re)emergent from very old stories.

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Section: Futures Becoming(s) and Literacies Of The Landmentioning

confidence: 98%

(Re)Envisioning Childhoods With Mi’kmaw Literatures

Downey

2022

J Child. Stud.

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Signs of Life: Affect, Language and (Extra)Humanness

Downey

Sagy

2022

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Fragmented and aiming toward provocation rather than elucidation, this article shares excerpts from the ongoing conversation between two scholars in education. The authors frame their conversation as response to the tensions raised by Monica Prendergast between the discourses of the ontological turn and the humanistically rooted field of poetic inquiry. Through engagement with posthumanisms, the affective turn, Indigenous refusal and Achille Mbembe’s writing on necropolitics, the authors suggest possible avenues of change for poetic inquiry given the tumultuous nature of the current moment. They conclude with the suggestion that resistance through language may be a necessary component of staying human amid the chaos of these times.

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Toward a Mi’kmaw Poetics of Place

Cited by 2 publications

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(Re)Envisioning Childhoods With Mi’kmaw Literatures

(Re)Envisioning Childhoods With Mi’kmaw Literatures

Signs of Life: Affect, Language and (Extra)Humanness

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