Published 2023-12-15
Keywords
- refusal,
- land-based pedagogy,
- Mapuche weaving art,
- heteropatriarchal violence,
- intergenerational trauma
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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.
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