Being Together in Place: Indigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World

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Howplacesummons Native and non-Native peopleinto dialogue to take up the challenging work of coexistence with each other and the nonhuman world

BeingTogetherinPlaceexplores the landscapes that convene Native and non-Native peopleinto sustained and difficult negotiations over their radically differentinterests. Using ethnographic research and a geographic perspective, this book shows activistsinthree sites learning how to articulate and defend theirintrinsic and life-supportive ways of beingparticularly to those who areintent on damaging theseplaces.

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"Being Together in Place offers a radical vision of decolonization grounded in Indigenous peoples' ontologies of land and place. It's a crucial intervention that weds the best insights from critical Indigenous studies to geography in exciting and transformative ways."Glen Sean Coulthard, author of Red Skin, White Masks

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Soren C. Larsen is associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Missouri.

Jay T. Johnson is associate professor in the Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science at the University of Kansas.

Daniel R. Wildcat is a Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma. He is director of the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center.