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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.