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Hunting Theories: Totalisation and Indigenous Resistances in Canada
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Coulthard's Red Skin, White Masks as mentioned in this paper is a critical contribution to this project by offering a creative, materialist-leaning reading of Frantz Fanon as a lever to criticise those prominent liberal arguments of Indigenous conflict that are based on notions of recognition.Abstract:
Indigenous peoples are, in the current historical conjuncture, leading the opposition to the capitalist state in Canada. The specific features of Indigenous cultures, history and struggles demand of historical materialism a regional theory that deploys existing concepts and categories in reinvigorated and sometimes different ways. Glen Coulthard’s Red Skin, White Masks makes a critically important contribution to this project by offering a creative, materialist-leaning reading of Frantz Fanon as a lever to criticise those prominent liberal arguments of Indigenous conflict that are based on notions of recognition. While Coulthard’s argument and project would be significantly advanced by raising Marx’s concept of ‘mode of production’ from the secondary status it enjoys in the work to a more foundational role, in part because this moves the problem of totalisation to the core of strategies of resistance, he nevertheless in his affirmative project rightly centres returning to aboriginal cultural forms as a critical feature of decolonisation.read more
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Re-storying political theory: Indigenous resurgence, idle no more and colonial apprehension
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the ethical and methodological challenges that the transformative movements of Indigenous resurgence present to political theory scholarship's ways of giving accounts of and accounting for, Indigenous politics, and argue that addressing how political theory scholars might capitulate to and reproduce this colonial apprehensiveness is a necessary critical project, but more so is articulating substantively how it might instead model resurgence's reorientations.
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Turning relatives into resources (and back again?): towards a decolonial marxism
TL;DR: In this article, a white settler is presented as a white man informed by, and in important respects still identifying with, Marx, who wants to be in solidarity with the struggle of Indigenous people to sustain and resurge their worlds.
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Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
TL;DR: Coulthard et al. as discussed by the authors described the Red Skin, White Masks (RSW) as "a kind of red skin, white masks" with a white mask.
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Labor's Lot: The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action
TL;DR: Povinelli's "cultural economy" approach overcomes the dichotomy between the two standard approaches to these studies as mentioned in this paper, and it should engage anyone interested in indigenous peoples or in the relationship between culture and economy in contemporary social practice.
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Critique of Dialectical Reason I: Theory of Practical Ensembles
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Frantz Fanon's 'Black Skin, White Masks': New Interdisciplinary eassys
TL;DR: Silverman as discussed by the authors discusses Fanon's response to Sartre and Rene Maran and the Black-Jewish imaginary in a Chronology Chronology of Frantz Fanon.