Vol. 9 (2023): post(s) 9
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Mapuche textile art as a pedagogical practice of generative refusal

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El arte textil mapuche como práctica pedagógica de refusal generativo

Published 2023-12-15

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Catrileo, A. (2023). Mapuche textile art as a pedagogical practice of generative refusal. Post(s), 9(1), 26-43. https://doi.org/10.18272/post(s).v9i1.2970

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Abstract

Through an ethnographic exploration based on the concept of ethnographic refusal (Audra Simpson 2014), I will reflect about a generative practice of land based pedagogy as a way to sensibilize about indigeneity and gender fluid experiences based on my practice sharing the ancestral knowledge about the Mapuche textile art (witral) that I have recovered from elders and Mapuche epistemology as a way to reactivate the erased memory of my epupillan (two-spirited) ancestors. The artistic practice of weaving would be a possibility to think about the sacred, and how a critical pedagogy could be a medicine for oppressions (M. Jacqui Alexander 2005) and to articulate networks of solidarity or kinship beyond the heteropatriarchal and colonial family model.

 

Keywords

  • refusal,
  • land-based pedagogy,
  • Mapuche weaving art,
  • heteropatriarchal violence,
  • intergenerational trauma
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