Thinking of the landin that way

Indigenous sovereignty and the spatial politics of attentiveness at Skwelkwek'welt

Bibliographic Data

ID3977350
AuthorsSean Robertson (0000-0003-4294-6884, University of Alberta, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume18
Issue2
Pages178-200
Publication date2017-02-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2016.1164230
OpenAlexW2335787882
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited73

Grassroots Secwepemc attempted to stop the expansion of Sun Peaks resort on a site for Indigenous knowledge. I attend to the practice of Indigenous knowledge related to the confrontation and assert that Indigenous sovereignty and identity were outcomes. To make this argument, I investigate the space made for emotion, affect and intuition in the performance of Indigenous knowledge. From a relational materialist position, these more-than-representational forces play an important role in epistemology, ontology, ethics, and subjectivity. Identity therefore materialized in three ways related to feeling(s). As a result of their attunement to these forces, the Secwepemc understood that (non)humans underpin their material being and placed the collective on the political horizon. Furthermore, the practice of Indigenous knowledge encouraged an identity characterized by "attentiveness" to feeling(s) and to the activity of feeling itself. From the perspective of the struggles of subjugated knowledge, I also contextualize the attentiveness at the core of Indigenous knowledge practices as part of a more-than-representational and decolonizing spatial politics

Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Feeling · Grassroots · Identity (music · Indigenous · Materiality (auditing · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy

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