ABSTRACT

This article examines the critical interplay among Indigenous resurgence, settler colonialism, and the politics of environmental justice. Critical questions need to be asked: How are Indigenous political demands for decolonization taken up within the broader scope of impending planetary dystopia? How might ‘environmental justice’ work to (re)inscribe hegemonies of settler colonial power by foregrounding settler interests? This article takes up these questions vis à vis Standing Rock, paying particular attention to the way that the politics around water become reconfigured through notions of kinship, justice, Indigenous temporalities, and multiple frontlines. I argue that an anti-colonial indictment of environmental justice compels us to (re)imagine decolonial research/ praxis around environmental politics.

摘要

本文考察了土著复兴、定居者殖民主义和环境正义政治之间的重要相互作用。需要提出关键问题：如何在即将到来的全球反乌托邦的更广泛范围内解决土著对非殖民化的政治要求？“环境正义”如何通过突出定居者利益来（重新）铭记定居者殖民权力的霸权？本文针对《立石》探讨了这些问题，特别关注了围绕水的政治如何通过亲属关系、正义、土著时间和多重前线的概念重新配置。我认为，对环境正义的反殖民起诉迫使我们（重新）想象围绕环境政治的非殖民研究/实践。