Decolonising Mourning: World-Making with the Selk'nam People of Karokynka/Tierra del Fuego.
This article discusses death, mourning and decolonisation, focusing on the Selk'nam of Karokynka/Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Methodologically, it is grounded in feminist experiments of bringing creative and personalised writing into an academic scholarship to challenge subject/object-relations, and to...
| Publicado en: | Australian Feminist Studies Vol. 35; no. 104; pp. 186 - 202 |
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