Animal Colonialism—Illustrating Intersections between Animal Studies and Settler Colonial Studies through Diné Horsemanship

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ID6148906
AutoresKelsey Dayle John (0009-0003-8266-5275, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume10
Fascículo2
Páginas42-68
Data de publicação2019-02-07
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHumanimalia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2151-8645 • E-ISSN: 2151-8645
EditoraHumanimalia, Utrecht University (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.52537/humanimalia.9501
OpenAlexW4254256473
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas11

The objective of this paper is to highlight the relationship between violence against nonhuman animals and Indigenous peoples and, conversely, to reframe the conversation about horses by positioning horses as teachers and knowers for decolonization. I highlight a theoretical and material tension I name: animal colonialism. Animal colonialism is one interlocking tension that centers the interconnected nature of nonhuman animals and humans. I position horses as “knowers,” and as an entry point to understand interconnected Diné ontologies and simultaneously to interrogate multiple binaries which disconnect and erase Indigenous lifeways. To illuminate the conversation on horses, I use a horse lens to reframe the current conversation about free roaming horses on Navajo Nation. Horses and horse relationality is a form of resistance to animal colonialism because it perpetuates a Diné epistemology of connection, resistance, and healing amidst the violence experienced through animal colonialism

Cognitive reframing · Colonialism · Conversation · Environmental ethics · Indigenous · Linguistics · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Zulu · Animal and Plant Science Education · Communication · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation · Ecology