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Description
Fierce, reflective, and grounded in lived relation, Living Indigenous Practice offers a powerful account of how story can interrupt colonial habit and make survival, for people and land, thinkable again.
Colonial violence does not only live in spectacular events. It survives in everyday habits-how land is claimed, how justice is imagined, and how people rush to act before they have learned to listen. Through memoir, story, and critique, Olivia Guntarik traces how settler possession shapes the self, enters institutions, and makes genuine relation difficult before it has begun.
In dialogue with Hannah Arendt's thinking on violence, thoughtlessness, and time, Guntarik demonstrates how autoethnography can become a rigorous practice of attention. The book moves across ancestral memory, protest, landlessness, storywork, education, and the limits of political certainty, asking what must be unsettled in the self before living Indigenous practice can be met with humility, care, and consequence.
Table of Contents
A Note on Ancestral Relations
Introduction: Freedom to Write Freely
Letter to Hannah Arendt - On Forgiveness
Part 1: Context and Critique
Chapter 1: Why Autoethnography?
Letter to Hannah Arendt - On Introspection
Story - Knock. Knock.
Chapter 2: The Landless Settler
Letter to Hannah Arendt - On Land & Time
Story - Valley of Death
Chapter 3: Violence Against Violence
Letter to Hannah Arendt - On Violence
Story - The Panopticon
Part 2: Living Practice
Chapter 4: Whose Story?
Letter to Hannah Arendt - On Practice
Story - The Dead Visit Me
Chapter 5: We. Us. Me
Story - Sea Creatures
Story - Secret Forest
Story - Wood Spirit Woman
Chapter 6: Commemoration
Story - The Uninvited Guest
Chapter 7: The Quiet Revolution
Story - People of the Great Undreaming
Thinking Without Banisters
Story - Hearthstone
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Product details
| Published | 10 Jun 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781666954418 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 3 figures |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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