In 2014 I commenced a postdoctoral project that involved collaboratively planting and maintaining a community garden on a block of land that was once part of the East Armidale Aboriginal Reserve in the so-called New England Tableland region of New South Wales, Australia. At the edge of this block of land is an introduced, invasive willow tree. In this article I write with and alongside the willow tree to interrogate the potential and limitations of anticolonial projects undertaken from colonial subject positions predicated on relations of social and environmental privilege. Anticolonial scholarly activism demands a critique of individual and institutional complicity with ongoing colonial power structures. The following analysis offers a personal narrative of what it has been like to be involved in an anticolonial multispecies research project while working within the confines of the neoliberal university. Exploring the intersection of academic, social and environmental ecologies, I position the community garden as an alternative pedagogical and public environmental humanities research site that interrupts the reproduction of settler colonial power relations by cultivating tactics of collective resistance in alliance with the nonhuman world.

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在一棵柳树的阴影下：社区花园实验的物种灭绝，多物种研究

2014年，我开始了一个博士后项目，涉及在一块土地上共同种植和维护社区花园，该土地曾经是澳大利亚新南威尔士州新英格兰平原地区的东阿米代尔原住民保护区的一部分。在这块土地的边缘是一棵入侵的柳树。在本文中，我将与柳树并列，以探讨根据社会和环境特权关系确定的殖民主体立场开展的反殖民项目的潜力和局限性。反殖民主义的学术行动主义要求对个人和机构同正在进行的殖民权力结构进行共谋。以下分析提供了在新自由主义大学范围内从事反殖民多物种研究项目时的个人经历。探索学术，社会和环境生态学的交叉点，我将社区花园定位为替代性的教学和公共环境人文研究站点，该站点通过与非人类世界结成联盟来培养集体抵抗策略，从而中断了殖民者殖民权力关系的再现。