The Return of Nature: Decolonial Reinhabitation and Self-Indigenisation in Kodagu, India

De, Subarna

doi:10.1080/14688417.2023.2260802

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“…This shows that, due to reinhabitation, the agency of plants in Kodagu once more reshaped Plant Perspectives the indigenous community's existence and culture, which is founded on convivial worldmaking. I argue elsewhere (De 2023) that this indigenous approach is bioregional and call it 'decolonial reinhabitation' because the indigenous Kodava people undo Western practices on their plantations to reinhabit their ancestral land and re-establish lost human-plant relationship. 20 Decolonial reinhabitation in Kodagu caused rajakirita to naturally return to Kodagu's landscape, reviving Kailpodh.…”

Section: Bioregional Possibilities and Convivial Worldmaking In Kodagumentioning

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Plantiness, Multispecies Conviviality and Changing Human-Plant Geographies

2024

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The essay examines changing human-plant geographies in Kodagu, situated in the Western Ghats in southern India. Paying attention to Kodagu helps investigate how plantiness impacts resource politics in indigenous landscapes across pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial timeframes. This essay will study Sarita Mandanna’s Tiger Hills (2010) and Kavery Nambisan’s The Scent of Pepper (2010) from a bioregional perspective to understand the importance of native plants, forests, vegetal and feral spaces across Kodagu’s shifting societies and timeframes and examine how human-plant encounters redefine the role of plants in Kodagu’s more-than-human geographies. With a particular focus on the Kodava ritual of Kailpodh, this essay will investigate how humans often classify plants as native, invasive, weeds, sacred and unwanted, depending on their impact on human social life, and how ritualising plants such as rajakirita (Gloriosa superba) helps to reinhabit Kodagu and deepens the Kodava human-plant interaction across space and time.

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Section: Bioregional Possibilities and Convivial Worldmaking In Kodagumentioning

confidence: 99%

Plantiness, Multispecies Conviviality and Changing Human-Plant Geographies

2024

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The Return of Nature: Decolonial Reinhabitation and Self-Indigenisation in Kodagu, India

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Plantiness, Multispecies Conviviality and Changing Human-Plant Geographies

Plantiness, Multispecies Conviviality and Changing Human-Plant Geographies

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