Cartographies of Belonging: Reflections on Indigeneity and Autochthony
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This creative nonfiction reflects upon the political utility of the terms “indigeneity” and “autochthony” to describe human (and non-human) groups as genealogically bound to or originally springing from singular geographies. What do these terms reinscribe, and what might attachments to them foreclose to the Armenian, and more broadly, to the collective human experience? This mix of text and image is a plea to move beyond an “autochthonous” logic that naturalizes the coupling of bodies to lands to account, instead, for a more just and capacious understanding of existence as by, through, and for the in/animate “other” across multiple geographies and timescapes.
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Cartographies of Belonging: Reflections on Indigeneity and Autochthony
In: Journal of the Society for Armenian StudiesSearch for other papers by Deanna Cachoian-Schanz in
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Abstract
This creative nonfiction reflects upon the political utility of the terms “indigeneity” and “autochthony” to describe human (and non-human) groups as genealogically bound to or originally springing from singular geographies. What do these terms reinscribe, and what might attachments to them foreclose to the Armenian, and more broadly, to the collective human experience? This mix of text and image is a plea to move beyond an “autochthonous” logic that naturalizes the coupling of bodies to lands to account, instead, for a more just and capacious understanding of existence as by, through, and for the in/animate “other” across multiple geographies and timescapes.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 179 | 103 | 21 |
| Full Text Views | 48 | 6 | 1 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 100 | 29 | 5 |