Writing Love Letters across Borders: A Conversation on Indigenous-Centred MethodologiesShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms: And Words Collide from a Place / [ed] Nina Lykke, Redi Koobak, Petra Bakos, Swati Arora, Kharnita Mohamed, London: Routledge, 2023, 1, p. 155-171Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The conversation reflects upon indigenous-centred, feminist and decolonial methodologies, based on a story of a poetic co-writing and co-publishing practice, unfurling across borders, marked by difference – between Hema’ny Molina Vargas, an indigenous activist and poet-philosopher with Selk’nam ancestry from Tierra del Fuego, Chile; Camila Marambio, a Chilean curator, scholar, and eco-activist and Selk’nam ally; and Nina Lykke, a white queerfeminist professor from the Global North, and also Selk’nam supporter. Through insightful questions, the interviewer, Kharnita Mohamed, a black Muslim feminist, teaching anthropology at the University of Cape Town, and grappling with the contradictions of living in post-apartheid South Africa, prompts the three co-authors to tell the story of their passionately loving transnational feminist relationship – from its start at a writing workshop in Chile to the co-authoring of an article "Decolonising Mourning" in Australian Feminist Studies (2020). Sustained by playful English/Spanish translations by Fernanda Olivares Molina, Hema’ny’s daughter, also a Selk’nam activist, Hema’ny, Camila and Nina reflect upon their shared commitments to trusting transversal relations, loving friendships, ancestrality, bodily materialities, embodied story-telling, poetry writing, ongoing relations to the dead, and ethico-political passions for decolonization and a planetary ethics of sustainability. They discuss how these commitments became key methodologies for shared decolonial feminist writing engagements.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2023, 1. p. 155-171
Series
Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
Keywords [en]
indigenous-centred methodologies, co-writing, co-publishing, embodied story-telling, decolonization, planetary ethics
National Category
Gender Studies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-198636DOI: 10.4324/9781003378761-15Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85172986400Libris ID: 3lr0lng316mq7cxlISBN: 9781032457994 (print)ISBN: 9781032458014 (print)ISBN: 9781003378761 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-198636DiVA, id: diva2:1806491
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