Indigenous peoples – ‘doubly erased’ and ‘hyper-visible’: Roslynn Ang, ‘Recursion of colonial desire for differences: The doubly erased and/or hyper-visible Ainu’, New Ideas in East Asian Studies, 2017
Excerpt: First, instead of the usual focus on subaltern subjects, I attend to the production of the empire’s universal self – the West in the figure of the researcher and the Japanese empire – through logics that are enabled by the doubled erasure of indigenous Ainu bodies. Next, I locate the moments of Ainu hyper-visibility globally and locally across
the intersections of colonial space-time as the conditions of possibility for another version of the aforementioned universal self and the collusion of its aphasia on settler-colonialism across continents. I unsettle the empire’s internal coherence, when researchers utilize national and racial boundaries as their analytical framework, by pointing out how the heightened erasure/visibility of Ainu lives are the conditions of possibility for their recursive forms of empire and history.
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