Decolonial Geographies

Abstract

Throughout five years of collaboration, the authors have been building a language for decolonial geographies. They understand decolonial geographies to be a diverse and interconnected landscape grounded in the particularities of each place. This chapter focuses on the spatial weavings of decolonial geographies as they take form on stolen and occupied Indigenous lands and waters. It theorises decolonial geographies as a constellation in formation. The chapter traces this language from Nishnaabeg scholar, activist and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's work on constellations of co-resistance, while the author's spatial framing stems from bringing Indigenous geographies into dialogue with the geneologies of Black geographies envisioned by Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods (2007). The chapter also situates decolonial geographies within embodied theories and praxes of liberation to elucidate the connective fabric of various decolonial struggles. It elaborates on constellations in formation, as embodied in the present, to envision radical spatial visions of the future.

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