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13Climate Crisis as Relational CrisisFeminist Philosophy Quarterly 10 (1). 2024.It is commonly assumed that we currently face a climate crisis insofar as the climatological effects of excessive carbon emissions risk destabilizing advanced civilization and jeopardize cherished modern institutions. The threat posed by climate change is treated as unprecedented, demanding urgent action to avert apocalyptic conditions that will limit or even erase the future of all humankind. In this essay, we argue that this framework—the default climate crisis motif—perpetuates a discursive i…Read more
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13Without Land, Decolonizing American Philosophy Is ImpossibleIn Corey McCall & Phillip McReynolds (eds.), Decolonizing American Philosophy, Suny Press. pp. 37-61. 2020.
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52Teaching Reciprocity: Gifting and Land-Based Ethics in Indigenous PhilosophyTeaching Ethics 22 (1): 17-37. 2022.
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51Outlaw epistemologies: Resisting the viciousness of country music's settler ignorancePhilosophical Issues 32 (1): 214-232. 2022.Settler colonial imaginaries are constructed through the repeated, intergenerational layering of settler ecologies onto Indigenous ecologies; they result in fortified ignorance of the land, Indigenous peoples, and the networks of relationality and responsibility that sustain co‐flourishing. Kyle Whyte (2018) terms this fortification of settler ignorance vicious sedimentation. In this paper, we argue that Outlaw Country music plays important roles in sedimenting settler imaginaries. We begin by c…Read more
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34How does the consideration of Indigenous identities in the US complicate conversations about tracking folk racial categories in epidemiologic research?Synthese 198 (Suppl 10): 2439-2462. 2018.In public health research, tracking folk racial categories (in disease risk, etc.) is a double-edged tool. On the one hand, tracking folk racial categories is dangerous because it reinforces a problematic but fairly common belief in biological race essentialism. On the other hand, ignoring racial categories also runs the risk of ignoring very real biological phenomena in which marginalized communities, likely in virtue of their marginalization, are sicker and in need of improved resources. Much …Read more
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42The moral fabric of linguicide: un-weaving trauma narratives and dependency relationships in Indigenous language reclamationJournal of Global Ethics 14 (2): 266-276. 2018.ABSTRACTIn Therapeutic Nations, Dian Million highlights the complicated role that neoliberal arenas like the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and international dialogues concerning human rights play in the marginalization of Indigenous communities. Neoliberal arenas are empowered by sociopolitical imaginaries, or a metaphorical moral fabric of a given community, that consist in discursive content and affective, felt knowledge. According to Million, the sociopolitical imaginaries that give wei…Read more
Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner
Michigan State University
Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College
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Michigan State UniversityDoctoral student
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Saginaw Chippewa Tribal CollegeLecturer
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Indigenous Philosophy of the Americas |
Feminist Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |
Areas of Interest
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