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ERIC Number: EJ1245916
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Jun
Pages: 14
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Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Studies: Thinking with Indigenous Onto-Epistemologies and Black Feminist Geographies
Nxumalo, Fikile; Cedillo, Stacia
Global Studies of Childhood, v7 n2 p99-112 Jun 2017
This article aims to center Indigenous onto-epistemologies and Black feminist geographies in considerations of place, environment, and "nature" in early childhood studies. We consider how these perspectives might enact knowledge-making that politicizes, unsettles, and (re)stories place-based studies of childhood. In particular, we are interested in possibilities for unsettling the dominance of EuroWestern knowledges in both normative and critical encounters with nature/culture and human/non-human dualisms in environmental and place-based childhood studies, particularly in working from the premise that anthropogenic vulnerabilities, anti-Blackness, and settler colonialism are intimately entangled within North American contexts. While noting the tensions between posthuman geographies, Indigenous onto-epistemologies, and Black feminist geographies, we consider how together they might enrich critical place-attuned early childhood studies. Our intent is to contribute to ongoing dialogues on the urgency of anti-racist, decolonial, and non-anthropocentric approaches within current times of environmental precarity.
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Language: English
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