Decolonial Dinners: Ethical Considerations of “Decolonial” Metaphors in TPC

ABSTRACT

The recent uptick in TPC scholarship related to decolonial methods, methodologies, and praxis warrants careful consideration about how this framework is used in TPC scholarship. Using a critique of decolonial scholars, the authors reconsider their use of “decolonial” to describe their experience with urban foraging as a practice that subverts modern Euro-Western foodways. This article uses experiential narrative as a way to theorize about technology as it relates to decolonial perspectives on bodies and nutrition.

KEYWORDS:

• Decolonial methodologies
• urban foraging
• nutrition
• technology
• field narrative

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Notes

1. The use of rematriation rather than repatriation is in line with the calls of Indigenous scholars. Please refer to Tuck (2011) for further information.

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Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq

Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq is a tribal member of the Noorvik Native Community in NW Alaska and is an incoming assistant professor of professional and technical writing in the Department of English at Virginia Tech. Cana Uluak’s research addresses how mainstream modes of problem solving often perpetuates the marginalization of underrepresented scholars and communities and consequentially interferes with equity.

Breeanne Matheson

Breeanne Matheson is as Assistant Professor at Utah Valley University. She has extensive experience conducting international field research in the Global South. Her most recent research seeks to understand the technical communication strategies employed by activists in South Africa to fight racial inequality and discrimination against women.