Because, at least in my homelands in North America, there are Indigenous academics, activists and others to hold colonizer scholars accountable for how their research impacts our communities. But in UK, France etc scholars move largely without this direct accountability.
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I face outright hostility from colonizer scholars in many spaces, but there’s a special kind of dangerous colonizer study of Indigenous peoples that happens in UK: the place that wrought so much hell across continents & collected Indigenous bodies, ceremonial objects for show.
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In the UK, colonizer scholars (folks from dominant groups who seek to possess, oppress, dispossess, consume Indigenous nations, bodies, homelands, stories) act out the very deepest impulses of Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s concept of ‘the white possessive’.https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-white-possessive …
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I'm saddened to read your words, and recognise that long-term study by a privileged white person of Indigenous, settled and colonised cultures must be possessive and appropriating. Radical Anthropology have been doing it for years, over a century of years....
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When we add it up together. Our focus is on human origins and what we can learn from Indigenous cultural memory about this.
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I feel this experience hard. Was told to go home to save myself the embarrassment, then largely abandoned to write up without support. Glad that some allies stepped in to help. I would love to hear more about your experience. Thanks for standing up and giving this a platform.
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