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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 You have encountered a Great White Beast!
-''“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”''<ref>Berlant in Rothberg, M. (2019 p.49) The implicated subject. Stanford University Press.</ref>.
+The purpose of reconciliation is not to reinscribe settler virtues, nor to cater to comfortable narratives of innocence.
-The purpose of reconciliation is not to reinscribe settler virtues, nor 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"<ref>Grundy, M., Jiang, J., & Niiya, M. (2019). Solidarity as a settler move to innocence. ''Race in the Americas''</ref>.
-It should rather be contemplated alongside the concepts of implication, responsibilities to unsettle settler innocence, and to inspire action <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.
-Part of doing so around Gjoa Haven's Voices of Thunder, is by re-inserting our bodies back into political landscape, rather than merely deflecting them elsewhere, by merely "passing on" the message under the obscured positionality of "solidarity".
+<div class="next_choice">You have stumbled upon another '''Vista''': "Becoming Other". </div>
-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 - and is also referred to as a "move towards innocence" <ref>Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, education & society, 1(1), 1-40</ref>.
-The challenge of conducting a testimonial reading, is that it requires us to face the "Great White Beasts" of our own distorted reflections. A necessary discomfort before we can contemplate the full implications of acting as allies (especially from within institutions rooted in western-based thinking).<ref>Rothberg, M. (2019 p.87) The implicated subject. Stanford University Press.</ref>.
-<div 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 moving beyond positioning ourselves as innocent.</div>