Land‐based literacies in local naturecultures: Walking, reading, and storying the forests in rural Colombia
Tatiana Becerra Posada,
Christian Ehret
Abstract:Land‐based literacies scholars have worked to expand understandings of literacies to include often marginalized cultures who understand literacy as resulting from human and more‐than‐human relations. In this article, we contribute to this broadening of literacies with an analysis of how nature influences the meaning‐making practices of rural, subaltern communities in the Global South. Our inspiration stems from indigenous scholars who have advanced indigenous and relational epistemologies, seeking to bridge th… Show more
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