ABSTRACT My purpose is to consider the role that uncertainty might play in reimagining political responsibility in Australia. There is a growing body of scholarship that is re-examining what it might mean to be settler colonial and politically responsible. It urges settlers to not only comprehend their complicity in structures of violence and oppression – colonialism, environmental degradation, racial inequality, for example – but more so, to know how they are constituted by the racial logic of settler colonialism. In a sense, it is asking progressive settlers not to turn away from the uneven distribution of suffering, trauma and vulnerability towards the ease, certainty and satisfaction of much good white politics. I want to reflect upon how fundamental certainty is to the reproduction of settler colonialism. Or more so, the refusal of uncertainty, which is a denial of being implicated and the limitations of one’s knowingness. To do so, I bring critical Indigenous studies and settler colonialism into conversation with studies of emotion and affect. If the white settler emotional economy stymies anti-racism – innocence, fragility, anxiety – then emotions are a site for ethical and political action. Doubt and uncertainty don’t feel good, but they tell of other political possibilities, and ways to reform responsibility.

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不确定的政治：善良的白人、情感和政治责任

摘要 我的目的是考虑不确定性在重新构想澳大利亚的政治责任方面可能发挥的作用。越来越多的学术机构正在重新审视殖民殖民者和政治责任感可能意味着什么。它敦促定居者不仅要理解他们在暴力和压迫结构中的同谋——例如殖民主义、环境退化、种族不平等——而且更重要的是，要了解他们是如何由定居者殖民主义的种族逻辑构成的。从某种意义上说，它要求进步的定居者不要从痛苦、创伤和脆弱性的不均分配转向许多好的白人政治的轻松、确定和满足。我想反思定居者殖民主义的再生产有多么基本的确定性。或者更是如此，拒绝不确定性，这是对被牵连的否认和一个人所知的局限性。为此，我将批判性的土著研究和定居者殖民主义与情感和情感研究结合起来。如果白人定居者的情绪经济阻碍了反种族主义——天真、脆弱、焦虑——那么情绪就是道德和政治行动的场所。怀疑和不确定让人感觉不好，但它们讲述了其他政治可能性，以及改革责任的方法。焦虑——那么情绪是道德和政治行动的场所。怀疑和不确定让人感觉不好，但它们讲述了其他政治可能性，以及改革责任的方法。焦虑——那么情绪是道德和政治行动的场所。怀疑和不确定让人感觉不好，但它们讲述了其他政治可能性，以及改革责任的方法。