ABSTRACT

This article explores the value of theorising about colonialism that is specific rather than universal, informed by our locations in colonial struggles and driven by engagement with our continuing material colonial relationships with land, place and people. We do this by examining recent scholarly engagements with our contemporary precarious global economic and environmental conditions, particularly within settler colonial theory. We argue that using analogy to think our way out of material colonial and racial relations can obscure the authority of Indigenous peoples and reproduce colonial epistemologies. This attempt to create solidarity through political equivalence risks reifying imperial relationships and resecuring white possession. Rather than seeking to evade our positions as colonisers embedded in violent political systems, we argue it is possible for colonisers to act in solidarity from a position of complicity. Working towards justice from our own locations involves building solidarity across differences, without first needing to reduce these differences to sameness.

摘要

本文探讨了殖民主义理论的价值，这种理论是特定的而不是普遍的，这是由于我们在殖民斗争中所处的位置以及在我们与土地，地方和人民之间持续不断的实质性殖民关系的参与而驱动的。为此，我们研究了与当代我们不稳定的全球经济和环境状况有关的最新学术活动，特别是在定居者殖民理论中。我们认为，使用类比来思考摆脱实质性的殖民和种族关系的方式会掩盖土著人民的权威并重现殖民地认识论。通过政治上的对等来建立团结的这种尝试有可能改变皇室关系和重新获得白人财产。与其试图逃避我们作为暴力政治体系中的殖民者的地位，我们认为殖民者有可能从同谋立场采取团结行动。从我们自己的位置争取正义涉及在不同方面建立团结，而无需首先将这些差异减少为相同。