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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:41:29 +1300
From: "Kim Murphy-Stewart" <Kim.Murphy-Stewart-AT-twoa.ac.nz>
Subject: RE: new directions in poco


Good afternoon Andy

I have generally been to caught up in my own research process for my
thesis to talk much on this list BUT your caught my eye.

But the words hybridity and other and land and surviving colonisation.

These are all topic close to my study as a prepare a research proposal
on the Matua Whangai programme.  (Any other Kiwi's on this list?)

In this I am mindful of the writing on the Te Matahauariki Institute
website and Paul Meredith's paper "Hybridity in the Third Space" and
Joyce Green from the University of Regina on "Decolonisation and
Re-Colonisation in Canada".  Her paper is downloaded from the U Regina
website as a PDF.

Also Poka Laenui's paper on "Processes of Colonization" which can be
found on his website.

Also a search of Matua Whangai in google will pull up some interesting
papers including Mason Durie's June 2004 paper on "Indigeneity, The
State and the Goals of Maori Development" following Don Brash's Orewa
speech.

The stuff of this is the stuff for me of social work in 'post-colonial'
settler nation such as Australia, NZ, US and Canada.  Because social
work is at the sharp sharp end of these problems.

Also Catherine Love's paper on the Wilfred Laurier School of Social Work
site adds to this literature particularly in the context of linguistic
colonisation and how indigenous processes have been colonised and set up
to fail.

Hopefully this adds a bit to the discussion.

If anyone has problems accessing these documents I canb send then
indivisually from kim.murphy-stewart-AT-paradise.net.nz

Cheers

Kim



>>> andybelyea-AT-cogeco.ca 09/30/04 12:34 PM >>>
"Amardeep and Sam have already gestured to shifts towards
environmental/ecological postcolonialism--already a massive field"

Can anyone provide some lead-in writings on the "massive field" of
eco-poco
hybridity herein being referred to?  This line of reasoning is central
to my
PhD dissertation, which is exploring appropriation, authenticity,
hybridity,
and other poco avenues of investigation as they apply equally to
constructions of the aboriginal "Other" and the "land as Other" in Can
Lit,
and as shared embodiments of what needs "to be survived" in the process
of
colonization.  

I have yet to see publications on a massive scale...I do know that there
is
stuff out there decrying speciesism (in light of postcolonial theory),
and I
know of some poco theory that of course refers to place as part of the
discourse of (especially in bodily terms) colonization, but I haven't
seen
much by way of specific poco-ecocrit hybrids.  Or, above, are you
referring
to only poco itself as a massive field?  Please tell me A, please tell
me A.

The merger seems natural, frankly, since both "crits" seem to frequently
"crit" post-Enlightenment, secular-humanist, Cartesian rationalist,
"Eurocentric" (although this term needs to be seriously problematized in
an
era wary of essentializing) epistemologies.  Holy &^(* was that a
mouthful.
The "terrain" for poco-eco investigation seems ripe for the traveling.

Andy



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