Issues of race and sovereignty are embedded in every cross‐cultural collaboration in natural resource management (NRM). This article aims to bring these issues to the forefront by incorporating the term whiteness. Whiteness enables a critique of the privileging of Western sovereignty and the so‐called objective and universal value of Western science. By reversing the gaze away from the colonised Other and onto systems descended from colonial authority and its inheritors, whiteness identifies how race privilege works. A critical whiteness lens provides an analytical and practical tool for decolonising NRM. We provide a case study of the South Australian Department of Environment and Water to consider how NRM professionals reproduce and deconstruct whiteness in nuanced ways, where (a) participants are defeated by Western sovereignty when whiteness is seen as normal or as the only way; (b) the privilege of Western sovereignty begins to be unsettled; and (c) the gaze is reversed. Thus,Western sovereignty is problematized, and solutions to persistent problems are found in collaboration. We argue that reversing the gaze is a process that opens spaces to co‐develop context specific solutions with Indigenous nations that decolonise cross‐cultural engagement in NRM and respect Indigenous sovereignty.

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“白度”和自然资源管理：让我们谈谈种族，让我们谈谈主权！

在自然资源管理（NRM）的每一次跨文化合作中都嵌入了种族和主权问题。本文旨在通过引入术语“白度”来将这些问题放在首位。白色使人们对西方主权的特权以及西方科学的所谓客观和普遍价值提出了批评。通过将视线从被殖民的“他者”上移开，进入由殖民当局及其继承者继承的系统中，白度可以识别种族特权的工作方式。临界白度透镜为非定居NRM提供了分析和实用工具。我们提供了南澳大利亚州环境与水部门的案例研究，以考虑NRM专业人员如何以细微的方式复制和消解白度，（a）当白人被视为正常现象或唯一途径时，参与者被西方主权所击败；（b）西方主权的特权开始动摇；（c）视线颠倒了。因此，西方主权受到质疑，在合作中找到了解决持久性问题的办法。我们认为，扭转目光是一个过程，它为与土著国家共同制定针对具体情况的解决方案开辟了空间，这些解决方案将非文化中对NRM的参与非殖民化并尊重土著主权。