Candace Brunette-Debassige - All our relations: Indigenous women’s

Book chapter

Candace Brunette-Debassige
Randal Joy Thompson, Lazarina N. Topuzova, Women embodied leaders: Peacebuilding, protest, and professions, chapter 4, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024 Nov, pp. 71-82

DOI: 10.1108/978-1-83549-476-920241006

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APA Click to copy
Brunette-Debassige, C. (2024). All our relations: Indigenous women’s holistically embodied and relational leadership in Canadian universities. In R. J. Thompson & L. N. Topuzova (Eds.), Women embodied leaders: Peacebuilding, protest, and professions (pp. 71–82). Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83549-476-920241006

Chicago/Turabian Click to copy
Brunette-Debassige, Candace. “All Our Relations: Indigenous Women’s Holistically Embodied and Relational Leadership in Canadian Universities.” In Women Embodied Leaders: Peacebuilding, Protest, and Professions, edited by Randal Joy Thompson and Lazarina N. Topuzova, 71–82. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024.

MLA Click to copy
Brunette-Debassige, Candace. “All Our Relations: Indigenous Women’s Holistically Embodied and Relational Leadership in Canadian Universities.” Women Embodied Leaders: Peacebuilding, Protest, and Professions, edited by Randal Joy Thompson and Lazarina N. Topuzova, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024, pp. 71–82, doi:10.1108/978-1-83549-476-920241006.

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@incollection{brunette-debassige2024a,
  title = {All our relations: Indigenous women’s holistically embodied and relational leadership in Canadian universities},
  year = {2024},
  month = nov,
  chapter = {4},
  pages = {71-82},
  publisher = {Emerald Publishing Limited},
  doi = {10.1108/978-1-83549-476-920241006},
  author = {Brunette-Debassige, Candace},
  editor = {Thompson, Randal Joy and Topuzova, Lazarina N.},
  booktitle = {Women embodied leaders: Peacebuilding, protest, and professions},
  month_numeric = {11}
}

Abstract

Indigenous women’s leadership experiences are either silent or misinterpreted in dominant educational leadership discourses. This chapter explores the ongoing colonial, racial, and gendered tropes present in contemporary characterizations of Indigenous women administrators’ leadership and resistance work in Canadian universities in a post truth and reconciliation era. Drawing on an Indigenous storying methodology, I share firsthand testimonies of Indigenous women leaders working in Canadian universities to lead Indigenous decolonial transformation from within (TRC, 2015). I draw on Indigenous theoretical understandings of embodiment and relationality to build upon previous research and findings published in Tricky Grounds: Indigenous Women’s Experiences in Canadian Universities(Brunette-Debassige, 2023b) and assert that Indigenous women’s leadership work is both embodied and relationally tied to Indigenous ethics grounded in the teachings of all our relations.