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- Title
Dechinta Bush University: Mobilizing a knowledge economy of reciprocity, resurgence and decolonization.
- Authors
Freeland Ballantyne, Erin
- Abstract
This article explores Dechinta Bush University as an Indigenous place-based movement that contributes to personal and collective transformation through mobilizing land-based knowledge and learning within a comprehensive strategy of resistance to settler capital. Through the production of a knowledge economy intervention, the pedagogical and political strategies of Dechinta are explored as a proven example of multi-scalar transformational decolonization that has far-reaching personal, collective, institutional, political and economic impacts. Through a detailed exploration of the five-year process of collective imagining, mobilizing and operating Dechinta Bush University, this article gives critical insights into closing the gap between the call for mass-scale decolonization and the dismantling of settler capitalism by exploring pathways which orient the land and Indigenous knowledge as relationships and core values mobilized towards a resurgence reality. Dechinta is herein conceived as a pathway movement of arming oneself with knowledge to fight the hierarchical scales of settler politics, a movement where collective and personal transformation through learning on the land is part and parcel of a strategy of resistance to settler capital, producing an alternative knowledge economy centered around the value of land as an infinite producer of health, knowledge, and sustainable, selfdetermining communities.
- Subjects
ETHNOSCIENCE; INTERVENTION (Social services); DECOLONIZATION; CAPITALISM; STATE formation
- Publication
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 2014, Vol 3, Issue 3, p67
- ISSN
1929-8692
- Publication type
Article