{"title":"Truth-telling about a settler-colonial legacy: decolonizing possibilities?","authors":"V. Barolsky","doi":"10.1080/13688790.2022.2117872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2022.2117872","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 2017, the Uluru Statement calling for Voice, Treaty and Truth was released by Australia’s Referendum Council. The Uluru Statement calls for a Makarrata Commission to oversee a process of ‘agreement-making’ and ‘truth-telling’. I argue that it was in the regional dialogues held by the Referendum Council prior to the release of the Uluru Statement that this demand for truth-telling was substantively articulated by dialogue participants. This article explores this grassroots invocation of truth-telling within the context of the desire for political transformation, most recently expressed in the Uluru Statement. I argue that truth-telling is conceptualized by regional dialogue participants as an opportunity for First Nations and non-Indigenous Australians to participate as equals in a process of place-based dialogic engagement about the ‘truths’ of colonial history that may or may not lead to local reconciliation. This type of ‘agonistic’ political encounter, therefore, does not assume an outcome of national or even local reconciliation. I contend that these types of encounters may have the potential to create local decolonizing spaces in which more equal terms of association are negotiated. However, they could also be appropriated to pursue ideological forms of consensus that undermine this possibility, as occurred in previous periods of Australian history.","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77206594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whose settler colonial state? Arctic Railway, state transformation and settler self-indigenization in Northern Finland","authors":"L. Junka-Aikio","doi":"10.1080/13688790.2022.2096716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2022.2096716","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Settler colonial theory has effectively highlighted the continuity of colonial structures, but less attention has been paid on how also the settler state has transformed over time, and how such changes have affected the manifold relationships between the state, the settlers and the natives. This article addresses trajectories of settler colonial change in Finland, building on theories of state spatial transformation and taking the recurring plans to build a Railway across the Sámi homeland as its point of departure. The article suggests that central to the change is the destabilization of the relationship between the state and Northern Finland’s older, ‘endogenous’ settler communities. This has facilitated a popular turn to settler self-Indigenization, whereby settlers make new claims to being ‘Indigenous’, usually building on records of a distant (possibly) Indigenous ancestor. Since self-Indigenization directly challenges Indigenous self-determination, it articulates a new form of elimination of the native. The task for critical scholarship is not only to situate, contextualize and challenge such identity claims, but also to question the logic that continues to set especially older settler communities in opposition to Indigenous rights and self-determination, in the context of extractive and neoliberal development that ultimately may undermine both.","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"279 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84012706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nature, environment, and activism in Nigerian literature","authors":"John Olorunshola Kehinde","doi":"10.1080/13688790.2022.2091698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2022.2091698","url":null,"abstract":"at Chandernagore. This place later came to be associated with Indian revolutionary stalwarts like Sri Aurobindo, Kanailal Dutta and Rash Behari Bose. Bhaduri concludes this chapter by commenting on the influence of polycoloniality on the Bengal renaissance. The book is definitely an important intervention into the prevailing monocolonial narrative of Bengal and India. The limitation of the book is that Bhaduri leaves out the influence of polycoloniality on certain geographical areas which are not part of Bengal today, like Bihar and certain parts of Odisha. Bhaduri opens up the possibility for further research on many of the vital issues like the effect of polycoloniality on food, language, literature, architecture, religion, for example, which are briefly touched upon. Polycoloniality offers a new template through research findings that would not only enrich a new generation of researchers about the plurality of the Indian nation but also offer a new paradigm that would widen the scope of postcolonial studies.","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"41 1","pages":"482 - 484"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80027006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Israeli elephant in the settler-colonial room","authors":"Marcelo Svirsky","doi":"10.1080/13688790.2022.2080153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2022.2080153","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article presents a rationale to expand settler-colonial studies so as to conceptually fuse in the same proposition the question of settler-colonial permanence with that of the settler subject. Arguments are elaborated based on one particular case study, Palestine. This gap in the research in relation to Palestine not only has left unresolved the problem of how to explain the continuation of the Israeli settler regime beyond its unequivocal overt and superior mechanisms of legal and brute power but has also kept the concrete perpetrators in the shadows, away from public accountability. The article also lays out a number of potential dimensions to lead research into the conceptual nexus suggested here, for the specific case of Palestine. These dimensions, which I suggest form the emotional economy of Israeli settler-colonial subjectivity, comprise (1) the compensatory distributions of settler-colonial capture, (2) the historical formation of strata of subjectivation, (3) the avenues of socialization that cement the commitment to a militarized society, and (4) the ways by which settler learning and settler practice are conjoined in everyday training.","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88747902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Politischer Rassismus in der post-homogenen Gesellschaft","authors":"Lorenz Narku Laing","doi":"10.1515/9783839463789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839463789","url":null,"abstract":"Rassismus ist politisch und das Politische ist geprägt von Rassismus. In vielen Teilen der deutschen Gesellschaft stehen sich Befürworter*innen der Homogenität und Vielfaltsbegeisterte unversöhnlich gegenüber. Lorenz Narku Laing analysiert die posthomogene Gesellschaft und zeigt, dass rassistische Politiken zum Kerngeschäft der Verfechter*innen der Homogenität gehören. Seine postkoloniale Kritik untersucht die tieferliegenden Gründe hierfür und liefert zugleich eine kritische Intervention in die (politik-)wissenschaftliche Forschung. Dabei wird deutlich, dass Rassismus weit mehr ist als Diskriminierung und Benachteiligung: Rassismus ist eine politische Ideologie.","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82483672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ends of worlds or the continuation of the planet? Postcolonial theory, the Anthropocene, and the nonhuman","authors":"A. Baishya, Priya C. Kumar","doi":"10.1080/13688790.2022.2071724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2022.2071724","url":null,"abstract":"Set in the near future, the Australian novelist James Bradley ’ s cli- fi Clade closes with a description of natural illuminations named ‘ the Shimmer ’ : They have a proper name … but most people call them the Shimmer. Nobody knows what is causing them: the best guess of most scientists is that they are related to a new instability in the Earth ’ s magnetic fi elds, an instability that may presage the poles fl ipping from north to south, as they have occasionally in the distant past, although why that should be happening now is unclear. Some argue that it is a natural phenomenon. But there are also those who believe the process has been hastened by the events of the last century, claiming that the incremental changes to the Earth ’ s rotation caused by the melting of ice and the shifting of the crust as it adapted to its loss have destabilized the fi elds in new and unpredictable ways. 1 us the catastrophic imaginary orienting and – – formations sunlight and soil. When Pipi pressed the Rastas for ways of speeding up the maturation of the yams, for cultivation techniques suited to the steep inclines of ravines, or the rocky fl eet of cli ff s, for grafts that might change the growth rate of some vegetables and even their size, he met with fi erce hostility. The Rastas ’ humility before the was they scorned these ideas.","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"305 - 320"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84802053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historicizing Indic collectives’ ‘solidarities’ in the age of the Anthropocene","authors":"A. Jalais","doi":"10.1080/13688790.2022.2070114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2022.2070114","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Anthropocene introduces a new ‘universal collective’ – the human species seen as a group and acting as a global geophysical agent. This ‘universal collective’ has usually been written about from a Western perspective. It has rarely been explored in relation to what a ‘collective’ might mean outside the Euro-American zone. The challenge is to rethink ‘universal’ from within local traditions of intellection so as to, in a sense, ‘provincialize’ it (after Dipesh Chakrabarty). Highlighting some of the recent anthropological literature on debates about the environment and the nonhuman in the Indic sphere, this article critically examines how contradictions about this ‘collective’ often return us to deep-seated ideas about what it means to be human – especially in relation to segregating beliefs about caste, gender and, ultimately, also nonhumans. In other words, this article attempts to underscore what lies at the heart of the complex endeavour of making sense of the ‘collective’, from an Indic perspective, in a time of climate breakdown.","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"399 - 416"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87241645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Re-Living the Early Days’: memory, childhood and self-indigenization, North Melbourne, 1934–1935","authors":"Fiona Gatt, Catherine Gay","doi":"10.1080/13688790.2022.2049466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2022.2049466","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 1934, during the centenary celebrations commemorating Melbourne’s European settlement, the Age newspaper published a short history of the inner suburb of North Melbourne. By this time only people who had been children in the early years of the suburb were left to reminisce and they did so with great enthusiasm, writing a string of over 80 letters to the editor in response to the article. The analysis of the letters in this co-authored paper, pairing the insights of local history and childhood studies, appreciably illuminates the urban settler-colonial identity that developed in Hotham/North Melbourne. This paper uses the lens of memory to show how childhood recollections were mobilized by the letter writers to naturalize and normalize settler presence. Several themes in the letters evidence this narrative: conquering the space through play; local personalities positioned in the settler space; pride in key colonial moments; positioning First Nations people as wandering fringe-dwellers; and claims of colonial childhood as ‘original’ or ‘native’ to the area. We identify a gendered nature to these reminiscences. Significantly, we argue that the adult employment of childhood memories is a particularly powerful mode of erasure and self-indigenization.","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"202 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87111556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond belief: secularism, religion and our muddled modernity","authors":"S. Seth","doi":"10.1080/13688790.2022.2035924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2022.2035924","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the very idea of religion, as the genus of which the various ‘ world religions ’ are the species, is a modern invention, and thus comparisons between religions – including those pertaining to their capacity to recognize and adapt to the necessary distinction between matters of religion and matters properly belonging to secular society and the state – rest upon a deep conceptual error. Religion is made or produced, it goes on to show, in part by the interventions of the state; the claim that secularism is the process by which politics and religion come to be ‘ separated out ’ is therefore untenable. It concludes by asking how we might understand religion and secularism in the light of this, if it is no longer possible to understand them in the conventional way; and also what the implications of such alternative understandings might be for the narrative of modernity of which the secularization thesis is a part.","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"113 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74674414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}