Writing, Land, and Place

A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Falling into Place

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Greenwood, David Addington. “Place, Land, and the Decolonization of the Settler Soul.” The Journal of Environmental Education 2019, Vol. 50, No. 4–6, pp. 358–377.

Justice, Daniel Heath. “‘Go Away, Water!’ Kinship Criticism and the Decolonization Imperative.” Reasoning Together. Co-Authored by the Native Critics Collective. Ed. Craig S. Womack, Daniel Heath Justice, and Christopher B. Teuton. Norman, OK: U Oklahoma P, 2008. 147-168.

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Lippard, Lucy. “All Over the Place.” In The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society. NY: The New Press, 1997. 4-20.

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McKay, Don. “Otherwise than Place.” Deactivated West 100. Gaspereau, 2005. pp. 13-31.

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Ricou, Laurie “Disturbance-Loving Species: Habitat Studies, Ecocritical Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature.” Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies. Edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Christl Verduyn. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2014, pp. 161-174.

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Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. “Land as Pedagogy: Nishnaabeg Intelligence and Rebellious Transformation.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 3. 3 (2014): 1-25.

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Walcott, Rinaldo. “‘A Tough Geography:’ Towards a Poetics of Black Space(s) in Canada.” Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada. Toronto: Insomniac, 1997. 35-51.

Watts, Vanessa. “Indigenous Place-Thought & Agency Amongst Humans and Non-Humans (First Woman and Sky Woman go on a European world tour!).” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 2.1 (2013): 20-34.

Mon, January 15 John Terpstra, Falling Into Place. Gaspereau, 2002.

Mon, January 22 John Terpstra, Falling Into Place. Gaspereau, 2002.

Mon, January 29 Dionne Brand, Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging. Vintage Canada, 2001.

Mon, February 5 Dionne Brand, Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging. Vintage Canada, 2001.

Mon, February 12 Suzanne Simard. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, Vintage Canada 2022.

Mon, February 26 Suzanne Simard. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, Vintage Canada 2022.

Mon, March 4 Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions, 2013.

Mon, March 11 Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions, 2013.

Mon, March 18 Mariam Pirbhai, Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging. Wolsak & Wynn, 2023.

Mon, March 25 Mariam Pirbhai, Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging. Wolsak & Wynn, 2023.