Land-Based Radical Healing with Black Ecologies and Critical Native Studies.

AbstractRecognizing oppression as traumatizing allows us to see that such trauma is political and healing requires liberation. Healing, then, is a political act. Increasingly, leisure scholars are interrogating the politics of leisure research and practice to understand how leisure functions as both a traumatizing tool of oppression and a facilitator of liberatory healing. We point to a need for more leisure research to take a collective view of healing in the context of colonial and racial oppression and to include the land as part of the collective. Radical healing offers an understanding of healing and trauma as highly political and collectively experienced, whereby social justice is a necessary condition for healing. However, radical healing lacks fluency in land and analyses of settler colonialism. We suggest modifying radical healing through an engagement with Black ecologies and Critical Native Studies scholarship on the collective healing of people and places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]