Indigenous-led, place-based decolonial practice: Michelle Murphy, ‘Some Keywords Toward Decolonial Methods: Studying Settler Colonial Histories and Environmental Violence from Tkaronto’, History and Theory, 2020 | settler colonial studies blog

Indigenous-led, place-based decolonial practice: Michelle Murphy, ‘Some Keywords Toward Decolonial Methods: Studying Settler Colonial Histories and Environmental Violence from Tkaronto’, History and Theory, 2020

09Sep20

Abstract: This article provides keywords and reflections for decolonial methods, drawing on insights from the Indigenous‐led Land and the Refinery project, which concerns the history of Canada’s Chemical Valley. This project is crucially organized as Indigenous people co‐researching the Imperial Oil Refinery, not as academics studying Aamjiwnaang, and asks how Indigenous and decolonial methods might reorient the use of archives toward other futures. Together, the keywords begin to outline a particular place‐based theory of change within decolonial historical practice.

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