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Michela J. Stinson, Bryan S. R. Grimwood and Kellee Caton Title : Becoming common plantain: metaphor, settler responsibility, and decolonizing tourism

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3:00 PM, Dimanche 20 Juin 2021 (30 minutes)
Becoming common plantain: metaphor, settler responsibility, and decolonizing tourism

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Michela J. Stinson,

Bryan S. R. Grimwood

and

Kellee Caton

As tourism scholars have turned to matters of reflexivity, epistemology, and ethics in research and practice, questions have been raised about how those in positions of privilege ought to situate their knowledge/power and take responsibility for enacting justice. In this presentation, we convey and engage the merits of becoming common plantain (i.e., Plantago major)—a familiar, low-lying plant species that has become “naturalized” to North America—as a metaphor that positions Settlers as constructive participants in decolonizing tourism and tourism research. Our work builds on that of Potawatomi scholar Robin Kimmerer (2013), who asserts that common plantain (also known as White Man's Footstep) offers important teachings for Settlers striving “to become naturalized to place” (p. 214). By working through experiential, imaginative, and narrative moments associated with our tourism research on Indigenous-Settler relations in Canada, we illuminate how becoming common plantain works to foster Settler accountability for colonization and colonial complicity; place Settlers in relation (e.g., to land, identity, Indigeneity); and augment conceptualizations of justice as healing. In short, this presentation contributes to theoretical and methodological discussions on the power of metaphor in sustainable tourism worldmaking and the relationships between tourism, justice, and Settler (de)colonization.

Michela Stinson

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Bryan Grimwood

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Kellee Caton

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