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 --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
Display software: ArchTracker © Malgosia Askanas, 2000-2005