Indigenizing philosophy through the land : a trickster methodology for decolonizing environmental ethics and indigenous futures /

Burkhart, Brian,

Indigenizing philosophy through the land : a trickster methodology for decolonizing environmental ethics and indigenous futures / Brian Burkhart. - East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xxxv, 324 pages) - American Indian Studies .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. The coloniality of western philosophy and indigenous resistance through the land. Chapter 1. Philosophical colonizing of people and land -- Chapter 2. Indigenizing native studies: beyond the de-locality of academic discourse -- Chapter 3. Re-fragmenting philosophy through the land: what Black Elk and Iktomi can teach us about epistemic locality -- PART II. Indigenizing morality through the land: decolonizing environmental thought and indigenous futures. Interlude -- Chapter 4. Everything is sacred: Iktomi lessons in ethics without value and value without anthropocentrism -- Chapter 5. The metaphysics of morality in locality: the always already being in motion of kinship -- Chapter 6. The naturalness of morality in locality: relationships, reciprocity, and respect

"Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land articulates the way in which land acts as a material, conceptual, and ontological foundation for Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and valuing, and as the key to the operations of coloniality and decolonial liberation as well the framework for Indigenous environmental ethics, as a foundation of ethics rather than a derivative or applied field of ethics"--



9781609176099


Epistemic logic.
Indian philosophy--North America.


Electronic Books.

E98 / .I535 2019