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Reflections on Insects and Decolonization in the Anthropocene
Language & Ecology (2024)
  • Talitha May, Portland State University
Abstract
Drawing upon creative writer Billy-Ray Belcourt’s (Driftpile Cree Nation) notion of decolonized animal ethics, this creative work argues that the connections between Indigeneity and insects have the capacity to challenge the Anthropocene. Indigenous stories of human and insect collaborations can cultivate cultural narratives outside speciesism. Our future collectively calls for simultaneous insect and human liberation from normalized oppression of settler-colonialism.
Keywords
  • rhetoric,
  • Anthropocene,
  • insects,
  • indigenous stories
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Publication Date
Spring April, 2024
Citation Information
Talitha May. "Reflections on Insects and Decolonization in the Anthropocene" Language & Ecology (2024) p. 1 - 16 ISSN: 1745-3631
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/talitha-may/3/
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC_BY International License.