Everyday acts of resurgence: Indigenous approaches to everydayness in fatherhood

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dc.contributor.authorCorntassel, Jeff
dc.contributor.authorScow, Mick
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-07T16:33:37Z
dc.date.available2023-12-07T16:33:37Z
dc.date.copyright2017en_US
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractIndigenous activism and resurgence are often analyzed at the state or macro-level because of the high visibility and large-scale nature of these actions. However, as Kwakwaka’wakw scholar Sarah Hunt and Cindy Holmes observe in their 2015 article, “…the daily actions undertaken by individual Indigenous people, families, and communities often go unacknowledged but are no less vital to decolonial processes.” These are challenges that we take up in examining the “everyday” – those often unseen, unacknowledged actions that renew our peoplehood and generate community resurgence. This holds important implications for decolonizing our notions of time and place and increasingly Indigenous scholars, such as Maori scholar Brendan Hokowhitu (2009), find that Indigenous discussions of the everyday tend to be framed either in terms of “Indigenous political struggles, especially in regard to jurisprudence, or in terms of ‘victimhood’ conceived of as the genealogical descendent of the trauma of colonization”. How then can we re-imagine and re-assert Indigenous everyday actions that emphasize the intimate, lived experiences of Indigenous peoples? This article examines how the everyday can be an important emancipatory site for Indigenous resurgence against colonial power. Focusing on fatherhood and the everyday shifts our analysis away from the state-centered, colonial manifestations of power to the relational, experiential, and dynamic nature of Indigenous resurgence, which offers important implications for re-thinking gendered relationships, family health and well-being, and governance. These daily acts of resurgence, at the community, family and personal levels, can be critical sites of resistance, education, and transformative change.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.identifier.citationCorntassel, J., & Scow, M. (2017). Everyday acts of resurgence: Indigenous approaches to everydayness in fatherhood. New Diversities, 19(2), 55-68. https://newdiversities.mmg.mpg.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2017_19- 02_05_Corntassel-Scow.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.58002/yppe-zw10
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/15677
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNew Diversitiesen_US
dc.subjectindigenousen_US
dc.subjectresurgenceen_US
dc.subjecteverydayen_US
dc.subjectdecolonizationen_US
dc.subjectfatherhooden_US
dc.subjectgenderen_US
dc.subjectrenewalen_US
dc.subjectmicropoliticsen_US
dc.subjectintimate spacesen_US
dc.titleEveryday acts of resurgence: Indigenous approaches to everydayness in fatherhooden_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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