Visiting as an Indigenous feminist practice

ABSTRACT

In this essay, four Indigenous scholars from three different communities write about visiting as Indigenous feminist practice, a practice that is queer, anti-capitalist, and rooted in the cosmologies of our communities. Visiting is at the heart of how we research and how we make relation within our research. As an Indigenous feminist practice, visiting centers relationality and an ethic of care. Visiting as framework suggests a responsibility to the past and future of a place through the impermanence of our presence.

KEYWORDS:

• Theory
• participatory methods
• pedagogy
• race and ethnicities
• critical pedagogies

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 This essay was commissioned to be part of the catalogue of the exhibition #callresponse, co-organized by Tarah Hogue, Maria Hupfield, and Tania Willard, with works by Christi Belcourt, IV Castellanos, Marcia Crosby, Maria Hupfield, Ursula Johnson, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Isaac Murdoch, Esther Neff, Tanya Tagaq, Tania Willard, and Laakkuluk Williamson-Bathory.

2 As an aside, when Eve had a chance to create a name for her Canada Research Chair, she did suggest that it be a Canada Research Chair in Visiting. But a visiting professor means something else in academia, so the university didn’t go for it.