« Settler colonial environmentalism: Ellen van Holstein, Lesley Head,’Shifting settler-colonial discourses of environmentalism: Representations of indigeneity and migration in Australian conservation’, Geoforum, 94, 2018, pp. 41–52
The asylum-migration-settler colonialism nexus: Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, ‘The Coloniality of Migration and the “Refugee Crisis”: On the Asylum-Migration Nexus, the Transatlantic White European Settler Colonialism-Migration and Racial Capitalism’, Refuge, 34, 1, 2018, pp. 16-28 »

If the struggle is over the same geography, the struggle over geography is topical: Heather Dorries, Sue Ruddick, ‘Between concept and context: reading Gilles Deleuze and Leanne Simpson in their in/commensurabilities’, Cultural Geographies, 2018

22Jun18

Abstract: After centuries of ignoring and discounting Indigenous epistemologies, geographers and other scholars rooted in Western intellectual traditions have recently displayed a new curiosity about the insights offered by Indigenous intellectual traditions. In this article, we reflect on the ethical challenges that accompany reading Indigenous philosophy as scholars trained primarily in the Western tradition. Reading a set of texts by Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, we argue that reading practices can serve as either enactments or refusals of colonial relationships, and provide an account of the development of reading practices that seek to find meaning in the in/commensurablity of these texts, rather than by seeking only similarities or differences. Thus, we advocate for a political approach to reading Indigenous philosophy that respects the sovereignty of the text.


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