From the Skin: Defending Indigenous Nations Using Theory and Praxis (Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies) - Softcover

Jerome Jeffery Clark (editor); Elise Boxer (editor) & Nick Estes (foreword By)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081654249X ISBN 13: 9780816542499

Publisher: The University of Arizona Press, 2023

Synopsis

In this volume, contributors demonstrate the real-world application of Indigenous theory to the work they do in their own communities and how this work is driven by urgency, responsibility, and justice--work that is from the skin.

In From the Skin, contributors describe how they apply the theories and concepts of Indigenous studies to their communities, programs, and organizations. These individuals reflect on and describe the ways the discipline has informed and influenced their community programs and actions. They show the ways these efforts advance disciplinary theories, methodologies, and praxes. Their chapters cover topics that include librarianship, health programs, community organizing, knowledge recovery, youth programming, and gendered violence. Through their examples, the contributors show how they negotiate their peoples’ knowledge systems with knowledge produced in Indigenous studies programs, demonstrating how they understand the relationship between their people, their nations, and academia.

Editors J. Jeffery Clark and Elise Boxer propose and develop the term practitioner-theorist to describe how the contributors theorize and practice knowledge within and between their nations and academia. Because they live and exist in their community, these practitioner-theorists always consider how their thinking and actions benefit their people and nations. The practitioner-theorists of this volume envision and labor toward decolonial futures where Indigenous peoples and nations exist on their own terms.

Contributors
Elise Boxer
Randi Lynn Boucher-Giago
Shawn Brigman
J. Jeffery Clark
Nick Estes
Eric Hardy
Shalene Joseph
Jennifer Marley
Brittani R. Orona
Alexander Soto

About this title

About the Author

J. Jeffery Clark (DinÉ), assistant professor of English and Indigenous studies at Arizona State University, studies DinÉ resistance to domination. His research areas include Indigenous stories, decolonization, settler colonialism, and Indigenous futurity and imagination.

Elise Boxer (Dakota), associate professor of history and Native American studies at the University of South Dakota, studies Mormon settler colonialism and indigeneity. Her most important work happens as a mother to three young boys.

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081654249X
• ISBN 13: 9780816542499
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296