Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL WRITING, 2026 (AHCI, Scopus)
Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (2013) involves a strident critique of capitalist ethics, particularly the commercialization of nature and the perception of the natural world as a separate entity from human beings. In recounting her upbringing within the Potawatomi, Native American culture, Kimmerer contrasts the western capitalist perspective with more interconnected Indigenous knowledge systems This article focuses on how Kimmerer's narrative underscores the ethics of non-anthropocentrism, by viewing nature and the environment not just as meeting and fulfilling human needs, but as exemplars of interconnected, holistic existence. Her narrative accentuates the principles of ecological empathy and relationality inherent in Indigenous thought and practices, seen as important for ensuring planetary well-being. It concludes that Kimmerer's narrative reinforces the significance of a decolonial world view and pluriversal knowledge in reframing environmental education and in stimulating hope for inclusive living in a predominantly capitalist society.