(K)new Materialisms: Honouring Indigenous Perspectives.

This article foregrounds the Indigenous ethical principles of respect, reciprocity, relationality, and responsibility that bind human and other/more-than-human agents, a non-anthropocentric conception of agency that may be said to offer a truly radical, if not "new," eco-critical approach to the crucial questions raised by new materialist and posthumanist scholars. Virginie Magnat argues that what distinguishes this understanding of agency from Karen Barad's influential theory of agential realism is the non-separability of matter and spirit posited by Indigenous scholars Vine Deloria Jr., Gregory Cajete, Manulani Aluli-Meyer, and Shawn Wilson, among others. Magnat contends that holding space for Indigenous philosophy, which values orally transmitted embodied ways of knowing, contributes to decentring/unsettling/decolonizing Eurocentric paradigms that still inform dominant knowledge systems in the academy, and she suggests that the scholarship of Dylan Robinson and Dolleen Tisawii'ashii Manning, who critically engage with new materialism/posthumanism, opens up possibilities for much-needed cross-cultural dialogue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]