ABSTRACT Urban greening is a buzz term in urban policy and research settings in Australia and elsewhere. In a context of settler colonial urbanism, like Australia, a first fact becomes clear: urban greening is always being practiced on unceded Indigenous lands. Recognising this requires some honest reckoning with how this latest urban policy response perpetuates dispossessory settler-colonial structures. In this paper, we listen to the place-based ontologies of the peoples and lands from where we write to inform understanding the city as an always already Indigenous place – a sovereign Aboriginal City. In so doing, the paper tries to practice a way of creating more truthful and response-able urban knowledge practices. We analyse three distinct areas of scholarly research that are present in the contemporary literature: urban greening and green infrastructure; urban political ecology; and more-than-human cities. When placed in relationship of learning with the sovereign Aboriginal City, our analysis finds that these scholarly domains of urban greening work to re-organise colonial power relations. The paper considers what work the practice and scholarship of ‘urban greening’ might need to do in order to become response-able and learn to learn with Indigenous sovereignties and ontologies.

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移民城市绿化未割让土地的政治

摘要 城市绿化是澳大利亚和其他地方城市政策和研究环境中的热门术语。在像澳大利亚这样的殖民殖民城市主义的背景下，第一个事实变得清晰：城市绿化总是在未割让的原住民土地上进行。认识到这一点需要对最新的城市政策反应如何使处置性定居者-殖民结构永久化进行一些诚实的思考。在这篇论文中，我们听取了我们写作的地方的人民和土地的基于地方的本体论，以告知将这座城市理解为一个始终已经是土著的地方——一个主权的土著城市。在这样做的过程中，本文试图实践一种创造更真实和可响应的城市知识实践的方法。我们分析了当代文献中存在的三个不同的学术研究领域：城市绿化和绿色基础设施；城市政治生态；和超越人类的城市。当置于与主权原住民城市的学习关系中时，我们的分析发现，这些城市绿化的学术领域可以重新组织殖民权力关系。该论文考虑了“城市绿化”的实践和学术可能需要做哪些工作，以便变得具有响应能力并学会与土著主权和本体一起学习。