Test Re/membering Our Rooted Selves

... we were all born ‘pre-modern’. ‘Relatedness’ is a condition that all of us continue to be capable of achieving, experiential contexts of some minimal duration. Our ‘modernity’ — our inclination toward abstraction, detachment, and objectification — is the product of our disembedding biographies. It is in being involuntarily deprived of ‘relatedness’ that we become Cartesianists. — Alf Hornborg (2006)

Observing the zeitgeist of our current times, self-defined Indigenous communities and individuals are choosing to re/assert their “selves” outside of the dominant dualistic discourse of coloniality identity. Those cultures and individuals that have been swept up in modernity’s net the longest, are also shifting towards re/membering connections to land and the more-than-human.

Community, kinship, relationality ... elements of a way of walking in the world that in the rush towards modernity took a back seat in the priorities charted by the few, which forever impacted the many. There is much emphasis made on the turbulent times of now, where we are seeing cracks in the system's facade, revealing socio material places of decolonial impairment, cracks that shock our reality, bringing more questions than answers.