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Rising Up, Living On, Catherine E. Walsh examines struggles for existence in societies deeply marked by the systemic violences and entwinements of coloniality, capitalism, Christianity, racism, gendering, heteropatriarchy, and the continual dispossession of bodies, land, knowledge, and life, while revealing practices that contest and live in the cracks of these matrices of power. Through stories, narrations, personal letters, conversations, lived accounts, and weaving together the thought of many—including ancestors, artists, students, activists, feminists, collectives, and Indigenous and Africana peoples—in the Americas, the Global South, and beyond, Walsh takes readers on a journey of decolonial praxis. Here, Walsh outlines individual and collective paths that cry out and crack, ask and walk, deschool, undo the nation-state, and break down boundaries of gender, race, and nature.
Rising Up, Living On is a book that sows re-existences, nurtures relationalit
Table of ContentsGratitudes ix
Beginnings 1
1. Cries and Cracks 13
2. Asking and Walking 75
3. Traversing Binaries and Boundaries 123
4. Undoing Nation-State 180
5. Sowing Re-existences 230
Epilogue 248
Notes 253
Bibliography 297
Index 321
