Indigenous Futures and Learnings Taking Place

Indigenous Futures and Learnings Taking Place explores the concept of singularizing progressive time in education and social life, challenging the common sense of futures and offering Indigenous perspectives that open spaces for new forms of sociality and relationships with knowledge, time, and landscapes. The book emphasizes the importance of disrupting teleological education and educationalized social life to break futures out of time and create presences that undiscipline education and educationalized social life.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 09 January 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Singularizing progressive time binds pasts, presents, and futures to cause-effect chains overdetermining existence in education and social life more broadly. Indigenous Futures and Learnings Taking Place disrupts the common sense of futures in education or knowledge for the future by examining the multiplicity of possible destinies in coexistent experiences of living and learning. Taking place is the intention this book has to embody and world multiplicity across the landscapes that sustain life. The book contends that Indigenous perspectives open spaces for new forms of sociality and relationships with knowledge, time, and landscapes. Through Goanna walking and caring for Country; conjuring encounters between forests, humans, and the more-than-human; dreams, dream literacies, and planes of existence; the spirit realm taking place; ancestral luchas; Musquem hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ Land pedagogies; and resoluteness and gratitude for atunhetsla/the spirit within, the chapters in the collection become politicocultural and (hi)storical statements challenging the singular order of the future towards multiple encounters of all that is to come. In doing so, Indigenous Futures and Learnings Taking Place offers various points of departure to (hi)story educational futures more responsive to the multiplicities of lives in what has not yet become. The contributors in this volume are Indigenous women, women of Indigenous backgrounds, Black, Red, and Brown women, and women whose scholarship is committed to Indigenous matters across spaces and times. Their work in the chapters often defies prescriptions of academic conventions, and at times occupies them to enunciate ontologies of the not yet. As people historically fabricated women, their scholarly production critically intervenes on .

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367673031