Abstracts
Abstract
Encouraging a new way for non-Indigenous researchers to think reflexively through their positionality and relationship with Indigenous peoples, lands, and claims for decolonization in their research, this paper introduces the concept of anti-colonial reflexivity. Anti-colonial reflexivity describes the slow process of looking into our genealogies, not simply to locate the names of ancestors in a family tree, but to attempt to critically understand the sociopolitical worlds in which they lived in order to trace our lineage in relation to settler colonization. As an intervention into reflexive practice, anti-colonial reflexivity seeks to re-personalize the settler colonial past and present, and to make reflexivity a practice that develops new self-understanding and accountability.
Keywords:
- Anti-colonial reflexivity,
- Anti-colonial methodologies,
- settler,
- non-Indigenous,
- settler colonialism
Résumé
Cet article présente le concept de réflexivité anticoloniale, qui encourage les chercheurs non autochtones à réfléchir à leur position et à leur relation avec les peuples et les terres autochtones, ainsi qu’aux revendications de décolonisation dans le cadre de leurs travaux de recherche. La réflexivité anticoloniale décrit le lent processus d’examen de nos généalogies, non pas simplement pour localiser les noms des ancêtres dans un arbre généalogique, mais pour tenter de comprendre de manière critique les mondes sociopolitiques dans lesquels ils ont vécu afin de retracer notre lignée par rapport à la colonisation. En tant qu’intervention dans la pratique réflexive, la réflexivité anticoloniale cherche à repersonnaliser le passé et le présent des colons et à faire de la réflexivité une pratique qui développe une nouvelle compréhension de soi et une nouvelle responsabilité.
Mots-clés :
- Réflexivité anticoloniale,
- méthodologies anticoloniales,
- colonisateur,
- non-autochtone,
- colonialisme de peuplement
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