ESTRI

Land Theory

Land is not backdrop—it is protagonist. This research area centers place-based analysis, land memory, and terrain as living relation. We confront the entanglements of settler-colonialism, white supremacy, resource extraction, and spiritual bypassing in so-called land stewardship. We ask what it means to be on stolen land while building toward a culture of return, repair, and refusal. We seek frameworks that neither replicate ownership nor disappear responsibility. Movement is not freedom unless it reckons with what was taken.