Textbook indigenisation (this time the rider is not on horseback but about rejecting ‘harmful appropriation’): Himanee Gupta, ‘Spiritual Dimensions of Farming Amid Settler Colonialism’, Political Theology, 2023 | settler colonial studies blog

Textbook indigenisation (this time the rider is not on horseback but about rejecting ‘harmful appropriation’): Himanee Gupta, ‘Spiritual Dimensions of Farming Amid Settler Colonialism’, Political Theology, 2023

27Jun23

Abstract: This autoethnography explores how the author’s work with farming led her to learn from such Indigenous knowledge practices as listening to Nature and forming a familial relationship with land in pursuit of a spiritual life focused on social change. In doing so, it highlights how such pursuits as farming at a small-scale level contributes to food sovereignty efforts worldwide that question and resist settler-colonialist structures. While incorporating Indigenous knowledge into one’s own practices risks contributing to harmful appropriation, the author argues that such knowledge has much to offer allies who wish to learn.

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