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Transcending settler digital control: H. O. Burnam, M. S. Brett, ‘The Postdigital Settler Spectacle: An Educators’ Dérive to Unveil a ‘New Colonizer’ During Covid-19’, in P. Jandrić, D. R. Ford (eds), Postdigital Ecopedagogie: Postdigital Science and Education, Springer, 2022

05Jul22

Abstract: This chapter is meant to transcend settler space to unveil what we call the Postdigital Settler Spectacle, a mesmerizing and manipulative façade used by settler capitalist society through mass media and digital technologies, which systemically hides the truths of social inequity in our daily lives. We aim to contribute to the discourse of the postdigital age within the scope of ecopedagogies and our (post)pandemic realities, using Indigenous and allied perspectives. Through a ‘decolonized lens’ this chapter examines the lived realities of two educators who identify and attempt to move beyond the veil of the Settler Spectacle by using the theory of the dérive, drifting, or ‘mythographical’ walking during Covid-19. We examine our truths during the pandemic including the meanings of land, our individual/ collective mourning, and relationship-building, primarily in the ‘rust belt’ cities of Buffalo and Syracuse, New York, and other settler locations of the United States, situated on Indigenous Haudenosaunee lands. Through use of storytelling, we reimagine a way back home, back to the land, towards a journey of restorative healing during our individual and collective (post)pandemic realities within this postdigital age.


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