Natalie Avalos
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 453636 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Natalie Avalos |
| NOMBRES | Natalie |
| APELLIDO | Avalos |
| FIRMA | AVALOS N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0392-444X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Relational Agency
Critical Indigenous methodologies center Indigenous epistemologies and thus perspectives. From this perspective, it is clear that while non-Indigenous scholars can engage with Indigenous thought it is only Indigenous peoples who can generate it (Moreton-Robinson 2016, 4–6). A critical Indigenist approach to Indigenous religious life, then, invites non-Native scholars to think with Indigenous analytics. Native scholars like Vine Deloria, Jr. and G…
Centering justice in the codesign of mindfulness and compassion-based college curricula
Colleges and universities are increasingly common contexts in which young people navigate the transition to adulthood. Research suggests that mindfulness and compassion may support undergraduates as they navigate this developmental transition. Embedding learning about mindfulness, compassion, and flourishing into college curricula demonstrates promise in supporting undergraduate wellness and academic outcomes. However, there is a need to generate…
Rising Up, Living On
Rising Up, Living On: Re- Existences, Sowing, and Decolonial Cracks. By Catherine E. Walsh. 2023. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 344pp. $104.95 (hardcover), $28.95 (paperback or e- book)
By Way of Response
Indigenous Religious Traditions and the Decolonial Turn in Religious Studies
Decolonizing Religious Studies
Knowing that the working scholar cannot be everywhere at once, The Conference fills in readers on what they may have missed from various academic gatherings. In this issue, we are pleased to share a panel discussion from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Denver, Colorado. On behalf of the Academic Relations Committee, Peter Valdina (Albion College) moderated a conversation on decolonization and the academic study of r…
Decolonial Futures
This roundtable showcases how different Asian, Pacific Islander, and Indigenous communities in Colorado are fighting for sovereignty of their homelands. It reorients the question of “homelands” to highlight the experiences of communities whose homelands remain occupied by settler-colonial and imperial nation-states, like the United States, India, Israel, and China. Participants speak to the struggles of sovereignty of their communities and commun…
Indigenous Stewardship
Settler colonialism has been described as a structure, not an event, meaning it is sustained over time through discursive and material means. As settlers began to monopolize lands, new ecologies were built from Indigenous ones, transforming the landscape but also human relations with lands. I expand on Kyle Whyte's concept of settler ecologies to understand these ecologies as drawing from a metaphysic, a Christian cosmo-logic of divine hierarchy …
A Veterans' Talking Circle
While the boundaries of Indigeneity as a category are generally contested in Indian country, urban spaces provide opportunities for affinity and multiple expressions of Indigenous identity to coexist and even thrive. In Albuquerque, like many major cities, inter-tribal Indian identity centered on grassroots political activity increasingly recognizes Indigeneity as transnational and hemispheric, meaning that Indigenous peoples migrating from other…
The Metaphysics of Decolonization
Decolonization is synonymous with liberation. It is invoked in multiple overlapping geopolitical projects that demand both the undoing of imperial-colonial structures and the amelioration of their effects. In his essay “Decolonizing Western Epistemology/ Building Decolonial Options,” Walter Mignolo describes decoloniality as a double-faced concept. Decolonization is a geopolitical project while decoloniality is an epistemological, political, and …
What Does It Mean to Heal From Historical Trauma
Native American peoples' health is impacted by structural legacies of settler colonialism, including land dispossession, racism, and poverty. Responding with care to individuals and communities experiencing past and present traumatic stress from genocide and deeply entrenched structural violence means navigating ongoing grief, restoring self-community and human-ecological relationships, and generating cultural vibrancy
Jennifer Graber, The Gods of Indian Country
American Religion 2, no. 2 (Spring 2021), pp. 151–153 Copyright © 2021, The Trustees of Indiana University • doi: 10.2979/amerreli.2.2.13 Book Review Jennifer Graber, The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) Natalie Avalos University of Colorado, Boulder, USA For Native peoples on the southern plains, ceremonial life was the place where they formed political alliances ba…
Indigenous stewardship as a lifeway1
As the decade closes, Indigenous peoples have re-emerged as a critical voice advocating not just for environmental justice but for an entirely different way of living and being with the world. As the descendants of the original inhabitants of lands now dominated by others, they are often entangled in ongoing struggles to protect their lands and sovereignty. Settler colonialism is now famously understood as a structure, not an event, meaning that …
Indigenous Stewardship
Settler colonialism has been described as a structure, not an event, meaning it is sustained over time through discursive and material means. As settlers began to monopolize lands, new ecologies were built from Indigenous ones, transforming the landscape but also human relations with lands. I expand on Kyle Whyte's concept of settler ecologies to understand these ecologies as drawing from a metaphysic, a Christian cosmo-logic of divine hierarchy …
A Veterans' Talking Circle
While the boundaries of Indigeneity as a category are generally contested in Indian country, urban spaces provide opportunities for affinity and multiple expressions of Indigenous identity to coexist and even thrive. In Albuquerque, like many major cities, inter-tribal Indian identity centered on grassroots political activity increasingly recognizes Indigeneity as transnational and hemispheric, meaning that Indigenous peoples migrating from other…
Indigenous stewardship as a lifeway1
As the decade closes, Indigenous peoples have re-emerged as a critical voice advocating not just for environmental justice but for an entirely different way of living and being with the world. As the descendants of the original inhabitants of lands now dominated by others, they are often entangled in ongoing struggles to protect their lands and sovereignty. Settler colonialism is now famously understood as a structure, not an event, meaning that …
The Metaphysics of Decolonization
Decolonization is synonymous with liberation. It is invoked in multiple overlapping geopolitical projects that demand both the undoing of imperial-colonial structures and the amelioration of their effects. In his essay “Decolonizing Western Epistemology/ Building Decolonial Options,” Walter Mignolo describes decoloniality as a double-faced concept. Decolonization is a geopolitical project while decoloniality is an epistemological, political, and …
What Does It Mean to Heal From Historical Trauma
Native American peoples' health is impacted by structural legacies of settler colonialism, including land dispossession, racism, and poverty. Responding with care to individuals and communities experiencing past and present traumatic stress from genocide and deeply entrenched structural violence means navigating ongoing grief, restoring self-community and human-ecological relationships, and generating cultural vibrancy
Jennifer Graber, The Gods of Indian Country
American Religion 2, no. 2 (Spring 2021), pp. 151–153 Copyright © 2021, The Trustees of Indiana University • doi: 10.2979/amerreli.2.2.13 Book Review Jennifer Graber, The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) Natalie Avalos University of Colorado, Boulder, USA For Native peoples on the southern plains, ceremonial life was the place where they formed political alliances ba…
A Veterans' Talking Circle
While the boundaries of Indigeneity as a category are generally contested in Indian country, urban spaces provide opportunities for affinity and multiple expressions of Indigenous identity to coexist and even thrive. In Albuquerque, like many major cities, inter-tribal Indian identity centered on grassroots political activity increasingly recognizes Indigeneity as transnational and hemispheric, meaning that Indigenous peoples migrating from other…
Decolonizing Religious Studies
Knowing that the working scholar cannot be everywhere at once, The Conference fills in readers on what they may have missed from various academic gatherings. In this issue, we are pleased to share a panel discussion from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Denver, Colorado. On behalf of the Academic Relations Committee, Peter Valdina (Albion College) moderated a conversation on decolonization and the academic study of r…
Decolonial Futures
This roundtable showcases how different Asian, Pacific Islander, and Indigenous communities in Colorado are fighting for sovereignty of their homelands. It reorients the question of “homelands” to highlight the experiences of communities whose homelands remain occupied by settler-colonial and imperial nation-states, like the United States, India, Israel, and China. Participants speak to the struggles of sovereignty of their communities and commun…
Indigenous Stewardship
Settler colonialism has been described as a structure, not an event, meaning it is sustained over time through discursive and material means. As settlers began to monopolize lands, new ecologies were built from Indigenous ones, transforming the landscape but also human relations with lands. I expand on Kyle Whyte's concept of settler ecologies to understand these ecologies as drawing from a metaphysic, a Christian cosmo-logic of divine hierarchy …
By Way of Response
Indigenous Religious Traditions and the Decolonial Turn in Religious Studies
Rising Up, Living On
Rising Up, Living On: Re- Existences, Sowing, and Decolonial Cracks. By Catherine E. Walsh. 2023. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 344pp. $104.95 (hardcover), $28.95 (paperback or e- book)
Relational Agency
Critical Indigenous methodologies center Indigenous epistemologies and thus perspectives. From this perspective, it is clear that while non-Indigenous scholars can engage with Indigenous thought it is only Indigenous peoples who can generate it (Moreton-Robinson 2016, 4–6). A critical Indigenist approach to Indigenous religious life, then, invites non-Native scholars to think with Indigenous analytics. Native scholars like Vine Deloria, Jr. and G…
Centering justice in the codesign of mindfulness and compassion-based college curricula
Colleges and universities are increasingly common contexts in which young people navigate the transition to adulthood. Research suggests that mindfulness and compassion may support undergraduates as they navigate this developmental transition. Embedding learning about mindfulness, compassion, and flourishing into college curricula demonstrates promise in supporting undergraduate wellness and academic outcomes. However, there is a need to generate…
Political science (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Indigenous (6 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 obras) · Colonialism (5 obras) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (5 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · Philosophy (4 obras)