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This article begins by identifying common frameworks of decolonial and postcolonial approaches while considering the current scholarship's limitations of engagement with those approaches. We believe there is a need to interrupt (neo)colonizing approaches to decoloniality, that is, the limitations of the master's tools. Rather, we offer a mediation that critiques the centering of the colonial. In doing so, we weave into this analysis a series of narratives that beckon us back prior to the decolonial/postcolonial turn and beyond postcolonial and decolonial feminist thought—allowing for a precolonial knowing and telling to emerge. Through these tellings, we define and acknowledge spaces of meaning and traditions.

Ranchers and pastoralists worldwide manage and depend upon resources from rangelands (which support indigenous vegetation with the potential for grazing) across Earth's terrestrial surface. In the Great Plains of North America rangeland ecology has increasingly recognized the importance of managing rangeland vegetation heterogeneity to address conservation and production goals. This paradigm, however, has limited application for ranchers as they manage extensive beef production operations under high levels of social-ecological complexity and uncertainty. We draw on the ethics of care theoretical framework to explore how ranchers choose management actions. We used modified grounded theory analysis of repeated interviews with ranchers to (1) compare rancher decision-making under relatively certain and uncertain conditions and (2) describe a typology of practices used to prioritize and choose management actions that maintain effective stewardship of these often multi-generational ranches. We contrast traditional decision-making frameworks with those described by interviewees when high levels of environmental and market uncertainty or ecological complexity led ranchers toward use of care-based, flexible and relational frameworks for decision-making. Ranchers facing complexity and uncertainty often sought "middle-ground" strategies to balance multiple, conflicting responsibilities in rangeland social-ecological systems. For example, ranchers' care-based decision-making leads to conservative stocking approaches to "manage for the middle," e.g. to limit risk under uncertain weather and forage availability conditions. Efforts to promote heterogeneity-based rangeland management for biodiversity conservation through the restoration of patch burn grazing and prairie dog conservation will require increased valuation of ranchers' care work. ; USDA-ARSUnited States Department of Agriculture (USDA); USDA-NIFA AFRIUnited States Department of Agriculture (USDA) [2009-04442, 2012-38415-20328]; Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station project [COLO0698]; Western Sustainable Agriculture, Research, and Education program [SW10-073]; Center for Collaborative Conservation Fellows Program at Colorado State University ; The authors appreciate Dr. Emily Kachergis who helped initiate the research, developed the study design and collected data in Wyoming in 2012, and Dr. Kachergis, Dr. Paul Meiman, Brad Palmer, Dr. David Briske, Dr. Tracy Hruska, Julie Kennedy, Sam Cannon and Dr. David Augustine for helpful comments on the study and/or manuscript. Research assistance provided by Pam Freeman, Nicole Kaplan and Shakota Dilley. Funding provided by: USDA-ARS; USDA-NIFA AFRI awards 2009-04442 and 2012-38415-20328, Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station project COLO0698; Western Sustainable Agriculture, Research, and Education program (Project Number SW10-073); and the Center for Collaborative Conservation Fellows Program at Colorado State University. ; Public domain authored by a U.S. government employee

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the Series -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Papelitos Guardados: Theorizing Latinidades Through Testimonio -- I. GENEALOGIES OF EMPOWERMENT -- Certified Organic Intellectual -- My Father's Hands -- Vignettes of a Working-Class Puerto Rican Girl in Brooklyn, New York -- Silence Begins at Home -- You Speak Spanish Because You Are Jewish? -- Getting There Cuando No Hay Camino -- Reflection and Rebirth: The Evolving Life of a Latina Academic -- Mi Primera Amiguita: Carmelita -- The House That Mamá Biela Built -- Lightning -- My Name Is This Story -- Resisting the Alchemy of Erasure: Journey to Labor Ideas -- Esta Risa No Es de Loca -- A Escondidas: A Chicana Feminist Teacher Who Writes/A Chicana Feminist Writer Who Teaches -- Canto de Mi Madre/Canto de Mi Padre -- Daughter of Bootstrap -- Beyond Survival: A Politics/Poetics of Puerto Rican Consciousness -- I Can Fly: Of Dreams and Other Nonfictions -- II. ALCHEMIES OF ERASURE -- The Christmas Present -- Snapshots from My Daze in School -- Point of Departure -- Another Way to Grow Up Puerto Rican -- El Beso -- The Prize of a New Cadillac -- La Tra(d)ición -- Between Perfection and Invisibility -- Diary of La Llorona with a Ph.D. -- Welcome to the Ivory Tower -- I Still Don't Know Why -- Lessons Learned from an Assistant Professor -- Don't You Like Being in the University? -- Temporary Latina -- Dispelling the Sombras, Grito mi nombre con rayos de luz -- Biting Through -- Sand from Varadero Beach -- Speaking Among Friends: Whose Empowerment, Whose Resistance? -- III. THE BODY RE/MEMBERS -- Reading the Body -- Missing Body -- Malabareando/Juggling -- Migraine/Jaqueca -- The Wart -- Why My Ears Aren't Pierced -- Night Terrors -- La Princesa -- Forced by Circumstance -- Let Me Sleep -- Depression -- Desde el Diván: Testimonios from the Couch -- Telling To Live: Devoro la Mentira, Resucitando Mi Ser -- IV. PASSION, DESIRES, AND CELEBRATIONS -- Shameless Desire -- La Cosa -- Boleros -- A Working-class Bruja's Fears and Desires -- Aún -- The Names I Used to Call You/The Names I Do Call You -- Plátanos and Palms -- Three Penny Opera or Eve's Symphony in B Minor -- Descubrimiento(s) -- Entre Nosotras -- Pisco and Cranberry -- De lo que es Amor, de lo que es Vida -- Eating Mango -- Everyday Grace -- Tenemos que Seguir Luchando -- Select Bibliography -- About the Authors