Making Space for Inward and Outward Critique: Indigenous Feminism and the Reproduction of Relational Worlds.

Indigenous feminism is a vital theory, analytic, and practice for anyone concerned with settler colonialism, racism, and heteropatriarchy in Canada. Reflecting on the development of Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, 3rd ed. (Fernwood Publishing 2024), this article explores the contemporary contributions of Indigenous feminism relative to decolonial and anti-racist scholarship and practice, with particular emphasis on interventions in the new edition that advance relational orientations to transformation. The creation of a new, 3rd edition of Making Space provides an important juncture to reflect on the Indigenous feminist movement's progress and to engage critical dialogue around its gains, potential limitations, and its ongoing and future objectives. What is the Indigenous feminist movement concerned with today, and how are we conceptualizing the future directions and parameters of the movement? With the movement's foundations and parameters now established, and with a range of applications across scholarly and community contexts in recent decades, this edition of Making Space aims to attend to the parameters of the movement and their associated implications. How do Indigenous feminism's central concepts and orientations impact those we move in relation to? In what ways might fluidity and expansion stand to advance the intellectual and activist tradition of Indigenous feminism, without sacrificing meaning and precision in our analyses and critiques? What forms of association or convergence are limited or enabled by the ways in which we understand the boundaries of the movement and its degree of porosity relative to other movements and actors? The following discussion provides an overview of contemporary Indigenous feminist works that shed light on these questions, with a specific focus on interventions in Making Space 3 that critically engage the possibilities and challenges of relational approaches to decolonization and transformation in Canada and other contexts of settler colonialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]