ABSTRACT

If decolonization truly begins with land, then it can be said that landscape studies—as a field concerned with the study, design, and ordering of land—has at least some stake in on going processes of decolonization. Repeated contestations for Indigenous land rights in North America suggest that settler-colonial contexts present a distinct and pressing concern for decolonization. The landscapes of colonialism are also deeply racialized, converging on extractive capitalism and environmental racism. Historically, landscape has been used as a disciplinary tool to facilitate the control of land and to naturalise colonial hegemonies, including the cultural framing of landscape through art and architecture. Current approaches to the built environment (including development, conservation, and management) also routinely perpetuate colonizing logics. For landscape studies, the prospect of decolonization (and of a decolonizing landscape praxis) demands the critical reconciliation of underlying coloniality within the field and a complete reorientation towards anti-colonial subjectivities.

摘要

如果非殖民化真的从土地开始，那么可以说景观研究——作为一个与土地的研究、设计和排序有关的领域——至少与非殖民化的进程有一定的关系。北美原住民土地权利的反复争论表明，定居者-殖民环境呈现出对非殖民化的独特而紧迫的关注。殖民主义的风景也被深深地种族化，融合在榨取资本主义和环境种族主义上。从历史上看，景观一直被用作一种学科工具，以促进对土地的控制并使殖民霸权自然化，包括通过艺术和建筑对景观进行文化框架。当前的建筑环境方法（包括开发、保护和管理）也经常使殖民逻辑永久化。