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Confronting, engaging, disengaging against settler colonialism: Yann Allard-Tremblay, ‘Braiding Liberation Discourses: Dialectical, Civic and Disjunctive Views about Resistance and Violence’, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2022

14May22

Abstract: This article puts three discourses about resistance and violence, coming from two distinct
settler colonial contexts, in conversation, to highlight a distinctive theory of change
associated with contemporary Indigenous movements. The first, from South Africa, can
be seen in the writings of Nelson Mandela. It offers a dialectical view of resistance,
where the oppressor sets the terms of the confrontation and where violence is allowable
in the pursuit of change. The second discourse can be seen in the writings of James
Tully and offers a theoretical bridge between the first and the third. It focuses on civic
citizenship as a nonviolent engagement with terms of governance. The third can be
seen in the writings of Indigenous theorists whose work focuses on resurgence. It offers
a disjunctive theory of change that centres transgression and prefigurative practices.
The conclusion of the article braids these discourses to discuss how they both converge
and diverge.


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