ABSTRACT

This short reflection on “intimacy” considers the cross-ethnic labor coalitions at the CPC plantation camp in Wahiawa O’ahu to thread conversations about solidarity together with theorizations of intimacy. Whereas Euro-American notions of modernity as demonstrating dominion over nature and alienation from labor rely on conquest and environmental degradation, relational epistemology belies the framework of possession by understanding nature and the human as fundamentally interconnected rather than in contention with one another. Intimacy as relation upends intimacy as (self-)possession, and in so doing, it facilitates affinity and solidarity across differences rather than producing the coercive intimacy of appropriation and domination.

摘要

对“亲密关系”的简短反思考虑了瓦希阿瓦奥胡（Wahiawa O'ahu）的CPC人工林营地的跨种族劳工联盟，将有关团结的对话与亲密关系理论进行了讨论。欧美现代性论证着对自然的支配和从劳动中疏远，这依赖于征服和环境退化，而关系认识论则通过将自然与人类理解为根本上相互联系而不是相互争夺而掩盖了占有的框架。作为关系的亲密关系颠覆了作为（自我）占有的亲密关系，在这种情况下，它促进了分歧之间的亲和力和团结，而不是产生了挪用和支配的强制性亲密关系。