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Short abstract

This paper takes up the challenging work of Indigenous / Settler collaborative interventions in post-growth food and livelihood systems via earth responsive relationality, proposing ways to activate such interventions – against extractivist, colonizing impulses – via Grassroots decolonial alliance making, treaty ecologies with all beings.

Long abstract

The cry to transition from the vicious cycles of capitalist destruction has hit ever higher fever pitches. This paper will offer proposals on grassroots Indigenous-Settler interventions in political and earth relationality -- ones that aim to be taken seriously and which also support Indigenous rightful positions on their relational Territorial Authority, in response to mounting eco-social crises of our current moment. In particular I will discuss the invitation by various land-based peoples and sustainable food networks, to join in relational survivance and land-water-inter-species-human reciprocity praxes captured in such terms as Netuklimk (Mi’kmaw), Aloha ‘Aina (Kanaka ‘Oiwi), and indeed in the Gaelic philosophy/praxis of Dùthchas. Such local praxes are abundant, complex, integrated, diverse and resonant, and transformative, presenting a rising, potent movement of movements in planetary care.

I will take up the challenge of activating such engagements both in Research Initiatives and in Grassroots struggle through decolonial alliance making – by way of conjoining praxes for inter-peoples eco-social treaty ecologies – a line of flight in what Stengers has called etho-ecology, away from and displacing the vicious cycles of capitalist / consumer extractivism. Having just completed a Fulbright supported Research visit at the University of Hawai'i, and about to launch a partnership project on Food Commons, sustainable inter-peoples relations and livable eco-social futures, the paper will make some modest proposals on assuring Indigenous Peoples, and local peoples land-based protocols and techno-legal practices are best engaged.