Karen Van Fossan
A Fire at the Center: Solidarity, Whiteness, and Becoming a Water Protector
A Fire at the Center: Solidarity, Whiteness, and Becoming a Water Protector
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A Fire at the Center is a book that explores the resistance of two colonial pipelines, the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock and the Line 3 pipeline on Anishinaabe lands, through the personal experiences of the author, Karen Van Fossan, a minister of a nearby Unitarian Universalist congregation. It blends memoir, history, and cultural critique to investigate layers of colonialism and the boundaries of imperial whiteness, offering insights and practices for liberation and meaningful allyship.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 16 November 2023
Publisher: Skinner House Books
A firsthand account of two colonial pipelines and their resistance: the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock and the Line 3 pipeline on Anishinaabe lands.
This is a story of becoming and un-becoming. When the living waters that crisscrossed the Standing Rock reservation came under threat, Minister of the nearby Unitarian Universalist congregation Karen Van Fossan asked herself what it means, as a descendent of colonialism, to resist her own colonial culture. When another pipeline, Line 3, came to threaten Anishinaabe ways of life, the question became even more resounding.
In A Fire at the Center, Van Fossan takes readers behind the scenes of the Dakota Access Pipeline conflict, to penitentiaries where prisoners of war have carried the movement onward, to the jail cell where she was held for protesting Line 3, to a reimagining of decolonized family constellations, and to moments of collective hope and strength.
With penetrating insight, she blends memoir, history, and cultural critique. Guided by the generous teachings of Oceti Sakowin Camp near Standing Rock, she investigates layers of colonialism—extractive industries, mass incarceration, broken treaties, disappearances of Indigenous people—and the boundaries of imperial whiteness.
For all those striving for liberation and meaningful allyship, Van Fossan's learnings and practices of genuine, mutual solidarity and her thoughtful critique of whiteness will be transformational.
Dimension: 215 x 139 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781558969100
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