Unsettling Reconciliation: Decolonial Methods for Transforming Social-Ecological Systems
Unsettling Reconciliation: Decolonial Methods for Transforming Social-Ecological Systems
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令人不安的和解：转变社会生态系统的非殖民方法
作者：
E. G. Murdock
“政治和解”是指在经历过暴力关系的历史的群体之间建立正确关系的进程。然而，占主导地位的西方、欧洲血统的政治和解哲学很少关注生态形式的伤害，也很少认为生态暴力的做法是和解希望修复的暴力关系的组成部分。本文认为，从占主导地位的西方政治和解模式的损害的生态层面的排斥是理解土著索赔的不满，这种和解项目的一种方式。本文分析和contextualises这些索赔的不满，重点是如何占主导地位的西方，欧洲后裔的和解模式在北美的背景下进口定居者殖民承诺，掩盖了生态暴力的首要地位，在定居者土著土地为基础的冲突。此外，这篇文章假定，定居者殖民承诺和解模式构成了更深层次的和解形式的障碍，部分原因是这些模式支持占主导地位的欧洲后裔的宇宙观和土地的概念，并在土著人。最后，本文认为，深层次的和解的可能性是存在的，并需要与土著哲学，把土地和土地关系的权利关系的中心，从而努力实现非殖民化定居者殖民注入形式的和解。
‘Political reconciliation’ refers to processes for establishing right relations between groups that are emerging from a history coloured by violent relations. However, dominant Western, euro-descendent philosophies of political reconciliation rarely focus on ecological forms of harm or consider practices of ecological violence as constitutive of the violent relations that reconciliation hopes to repair. This article argues that the exclusion of ecological dimensions of harm from dominant Western models of political reconciliation is one way of understanding Indigenous claims of dissatisfaction with such reconciliation projects. This article analyses and contextualises these claims of dissatisfaction by focusing on how dominant Western, euro-descendent models of reconciliation in the North American context import settler-colonial commitments that obscure the primacy of ecological violence in settler–Indigenous land-based conflicts. Furthermore, this article posits that settler-colonial commitments in reconciliation models pose an obstacle to deeper forms of reconciliation, partly because these models uphold dominant euro-descendent cosmologies and conceptions of land over and above Indigenous ones. Finally, this article suggests that that the possibility of deep reconciliation exists, and requires engaging with Indigenous philosophies that place land and relations to land at the centre of right relations, thus working toward decolonising settler-colonial-infused forms of reconciliation.