Land-based métissage: An arts-based praxis of reconciliation among humans and with the more-than-human

Abstract

Land-based métissage is an arts-based framework for confronting colonial and ecological violence, which builds on literary métissage, a research praxis comprising interwoven autobiographical texts. Within colonial contexts, while often separated, reconciliation between settler and Indigenous peoples and with the more-than-human are entwined. Centring researcher self-transformation and land-based creative practices, land-based métissage calls researchers into embodied truth-telling about matters of common concern. It is an inward and outward-looking research praxis that seeks to hold ethical and productive space for creatively and heartfully navigating toward transformation in service of all life.