“Resurgence, unlike reconciliation,” constitutes “a socio-cultural movement and theoretical framework that concentrates on regeneration within Indigenous communities. It validates Indigenous knowledges, cultures, histories, ingenuity, and continuity.” Although colonialism is acknowledged, relations between Indigenous peoples and settler-colonizers are not centred in resurgence. Instead, resurgence “focuses on Indigenous communities as sites of power and regeneration”—it “is about people in their own communities nourishing their own traditions, languages, worldviews, stories, knowledges and ways of being.” (Hanson 2017, as cited in Butler, 2020).
This edited collection features contributions by well-known scholars and exciting young researchers, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, in a wide-ranging theoretical and empirical exploration of Indigenous resistance and resurgence across lands and waters claimed by Canada.
The twenty-two contributors to this book demonstrate that focusing on everyday actions can be an important emancipatory site for highlighting the relational, experiential and dynamic nature of Indigenous resurgence.
Interweaving narrative accounts of journeys with academic applications for mapping the phenomena of indigenous suicide and suicide clusters, Maps and Memes lays the groundwork for understanding current struggles of indigenous youth to strengthen their identities and foster greater awareness of traditional territory and place.
Butler, S. (2020). Indigenous resurgence. Canadian Literature. https://canlit.ca/article/indigenous-resurgence/
