Culture Hack Labs – Territories of Transition

This report presents an overview of the narrative research and briefing for Land Back to Right Relations. This narrative intervention calls for land back to right relations: the return of land from the enclosures of colonialism and capitalism to new patterns of radical relationality.

In this issue, you will find the following:

1. Context
We explore how land is at the center of the global polycrisis and has historically been a key driver of capitalism and colonialism, and their 21st century mutations (neoliberalism and neocolonialism). As part of this, we provide extensive data on who owns the land – providing evidence for the rampant land inequality existing today.

2. Narrative Analysis
This in depth research builds on the original research conducted in 2022: “Territories of Transition”. Here, we map the narrative space and outline several narrative objectives for the reframe intervention.

3. Embodying Indigeneity
This piece unpacks the antidote logic to land ownership. It explains how Indigenous ontologies of relationality and interdependence provide guiding inspiration for the  “ontological shift” needed in this intervention.

4. Beautiful Alternatives
This catalog describes existing initiatives which demonstrate living examples of initiatives that are in right relationship to land.

5. Manifesto for Right Relationship
This set of principles, co-created by Indigenous peoples, outlines what “right relationship” means.