Moves Towards Innocence: Difference between revisions

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You have encountered a Great White Beast!

The purpose of reconciliation is not to reinscribe settler virtues, nor to cater to comfortable narratives of innocence.

The challenge of conducting a testimonial reading is that it has us face the "Great White Beasts" of our own bodies in action, instead of allowing us to merely "pass on" the message of recognition under the obscured positionality of "solidarity"^[1].

Rather than removing ourselves through detached solidarity, we face being just as intra-dependently entangled with the history of quota setting as we consider the other to be.

You have stumbled upon another Vista: "Becoming Other".

↑ Grundy, M., Jiang, J., & Niiya, M. (2019). Solidarity as a settler move to innocence. Race in the Americas

Vista:"Becoming Other"

[1] Grundy, M., Jiang, J., & Niiya, M. (2019). Solidarity as a settler move to innocence. Race in the Americas

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-“It is precisely by denying culpability or assuming that one is not implicated in violent relations toward others, that one is outside them, that violence can be perpetuated. Violence, especially of the liberal varieties, is often most easily perpetrated in the spaces and places where its possibility is unequivocally denounced” (Berlant, 2018, as cited in Rothberg, 2020, p.49).
+You have encountered a Great White Beast!
-Before we continue to engage with some of the testimonies shared in the workshop, we wish to caution against the conceptualization of reconciliatory allyship in ways that facilitate ‘’moves towards innocence’’ (Tuck and Yang, 2012); the fallacy of imagining there is an easy road to reconciliation leading to superficial actions that alleviate settler guilt, but do nothing to repatriate land, or undo settler power, coloniality or privilege. Reconciliatory allyship shouldn’t be invoked to reinscribe settler virtues, it should be contemplated alongside the concepts of implication, responsibilities to unsettle settler innocence, and to inspire action (Grundy et al., 2019). The form and the possible degree of acting as allies (especially from within institutions rooted in western-based thinking) depends on the complexity of one's entanglement and the privileges one has within the institution and other interlocking socially inherited structures (see Rothberg 2020, p.87).
+The purpose of reconciliation is not to reinscribe settler virtues, nor to cater to comfortable narratives of innocence.
-<span class="next_choice">You have stumbled upon another Vista: "Becoming Other". Maybe this vista will be able to provide some prospective when it comes to ethical engagement that moves beyond theory, or metaphorical positionings of oneself</span>
+The challenge of conducting a testimonial reading is that it has us face the "Great White Beasts" of our own bodies in action, instead of allowing us to merely "pass on" the message of recognition under the obscured positionality of "solidarity"<ref>Grundy, M., Jiang, J., & Niiya, M. (2019). Solidarity as a settler move to innocence. ''Race in the Americas''</ref>.
+Rather than removing ourselves through detached solidarity, we face being just as intra-dependently entangled with the history of quota setting as we consider the other to be.
+<div class="next_choice">You have stumbled upon another '''Vista''': "Becoming Other". </div>
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 <span class="pop-up vista link" data-page-title="The_Becoming_Other_Vista" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="Vista">[[The Becoming Other Vista|Vista:"Becoming Other"]]</span>