After the outright hostility and anti-Indigenous racism I faced in the UK academy, including efforts to fail me out of the PhD, I always wonder what the end game of non-Indigenous folks in UK universities studying Indigenous folks or holding Indigenous reading groups etc is.
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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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