TY  - JOUR
TI  - Decolonizing the Language of Landscape Architecture
AU  - Napawan, N.C.
AU  - Chamorro, L.
AU  - Guenther, D.
AU  - Huang, Y.
T2  - Landscape Journal
AB  - This article explores the role that language plays in constructing and deconstructing the narratives in landscape architecture. It seeks to explore how words limit or expand the possibilities of change within the discipline. Through an exploration of linguistic, colonial, and decolonial theory, the authors begin with an exploration of the origins of the term landscape and then examine Indigenous alternatives, followed by an interro-gation of the prevalent dualistic positioning in the lexicon of landscape architecture. This includes the dichotomy of terms such culture and nature as previously challenged by feminist scholars; however, the authors further detail the Western colonial bias present in this and other binaries. The authors draw from traditions in American Indigenous and Afro Descendent epistemologies, along with other non-Western worldviews from Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian, and South Asian cultures. Finally, this article argues for the continued exploration of language and its use within the discipline as part of an engaged practice that is necessary for our discipline to remain relevant in the current socio-ecological moment. ©2023 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wiscons in System.
DA  - 2023///
PY  - 2023
DO  - 10.3368/lj.42.1.109
VL  - 42
IS  - 1
SP  - 109
EP  - 129
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85162014847&doi=10.3368%2flj.42.1.109&partnerID=40&md5=e0d76bea23d40b198bb84e34be8bdef7
DB  - Scopus
KW  - Indigenous knowledge
KW  - Landscape architecture
KW  - decolonization
ER  -