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Settler colonialist solidarity? Rebekah Kartal, ‘Refusing Colonial Forms of Solidarity on O’odham Lands/the US–Mexico Borderlands’, Antipode, 2022

28Jun22

Abstract: In the US–Mexico borderlands, coalitions have formed to successfully thwart attempted amplification of militarisation in the region. However, in the borderlands, where migrants are criminalised and the colonisation of Indigenous lands and life is ongoing, coalition building is complicated due to the distinct positionalities of anti-militarisation activists. This paper analyses solidarity from the perspective of anti-militarisation organisations and activists in Southern Arizona/on occupied O’odham lands. I contend that desires for solidarity built around the worker, despite the recognition of unique struggles, reveal certain tendencies in activism remain bound to settler colonial ways of relating and understanding. Nonetheless, I argue that ongoing resistance to settler colonial terms of condition may motivate moves to refuse colonial forms of solidarity by reimagining coalition building as transpiring through reciprocal exchange of (hi)stories between differently positioned activists, rather than seeking a struggle that is common to all.


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