ABSTRACT

Successive generations of First Nation scholars have critiqued the ongoing institutional and disciplinary complicity of Higher Education to support settler colonialism. These critiques extend to include Cultural Studies, despite the field’s inter (anti)disciplinary efforts to expose power and inequality in social relations, dominant institutions, popular culture, and everyday life. As part of the university-machine, Cultural Studies is disconnected from the inherently pedagogical experiences and knowledge of Culture and Country for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. With an emphasis on praxis, we critique three autoethnographic examples of interactions between Indigenous agents and the settler colonial academe as a call to mobilize Cultural Studies literacies as a pedagogy of critical allyship to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholars. Cultural Studies as critical allyship pedagogy supports non-Indigenous agents to conduct rigorous critique of internalized and institutional settler colonial hegemony, identifying absences and erasures of Indigenous agency, autonomy, and self-determination. These gaps and silences are not for allies – or Cultural Studies – to fill; rather the project is to leverage Cultural Studies methodologies to cede epistemological space in the academe to Indigenous ways of knowing and being without intervention, assimilation, or academic critique.

摘要

连续几代原住民学者批评了高等教育为支持定居者殖民主义而进行的制度和学科共谋。这些批评扩展到包括文化研究，尽管该领域的跨学科（反）学科努力揭露社会关系、主导机构、流行文化和日常生活中的权力和不平等。作为大学机器的一部分，文化研究与许多原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民的文化和国家的内在教学经验和知识脱节。强调实践，我们批判了土著代理人与定居者殖民学术界之间互动的三个自我民族志示例，以此呼吁动员文化研究素养作为土著和托雷斯海峡岛民学者的批判盟友的教学法。作为批判盟友教学法的文化研究支持非土著代理人对内部化和制度化的定居者殖民霸权进行严格的批判，确定土著代理、自治和自决的缺席和擦除。这些差距和沉默不是盟友——或文化研究——可以填补的；相反，该项目是利用文化研究方法将学术界的认识论空间让给本土的认知方式和存在方式，而无需干预、同化或学术批评。作为批判盟友教学法的文化研究支持非土著代理人对内部化和制度化的定居者殖民霸权进行严格的批判，确定土著代理、自治和自决的缺席和擦除。这些差距和沉默不是盟友——或文化研究——可以填补的；相反，该项目是利用文化研究方法将学术界的认识论空间让给本土的认知方式和存在方式，而无需干预、同化或学术批评。作为批判盟友教学法的文化研究支持非土著代理人对内部化和制度化的定居者殖民霸权进行严格的批判，确定土著代理、自治和自决的缺席和擦除。这些差距和沉默不是盟友——或文化研究——可以填补的；相反，该项目是利用文化研究方法将学术界的认识论空间让给本土的认知方式和存在方式，而无需干预、同化或学术批评。