Transit of Empire
Key Words and Concepts:
Introduction:
transmotion
ungrievable
transit
empire
sovereignty, power, and indigeneity, and epistemological debates (xvii)
transiting Empire
indigenous people, settlers, and arrivants
settler colonialism
racialization and colonization (xxiii)
haksuba
acts
of interpretation that decenters the vertical interactions of colonizer
and colonized and recenters the horizontal struggles among peoples with
competing claims to historical oppressions (xxxiv)
colonial logics (xxxvi)
dynamics of colonial discourses (xxxvi)
conditions of inclusion (xx)
Indian/Indiannes
Discussion questions:
[How
can we] theorize the degrees to which indigenous peoples, settlers, and
arrivants...functioned within and have resisted the historical project
of the colonization of the "New World[?]" (xix)
How
might the terms of current academic and political debates change if the
responsibilities of that very real lived condition of colonialism were
prioritized as a condition of possibility? (xx)
Conclusion:
sovereignty
racialization and [replaces] colonization (221)
zombie imperialism (228)
logics of conquest
Discussion question:
What
images do you have, or can you make, of "indigenous decolonization as a
process that restores life and allows settler, arrivant, and native to
apprehend and grieve together the violences on U.S. empire [?]" (229)
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