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Metis and Indigenous against settler colonialism: Allyson Stevenson, ‘Dr Howard Adams’s Halfbreed Histories of Canadian Colonialism: An Indigenous Paradigm for Decolonization’, in Maurice Jr. Labelle (ed.), The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization: Post-Orientalism and the Politics of Difference, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023, pp. 25-41 »

Exit against fight: Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Exodus or Revolution“World Turned Inside Out” vs “World Turned Upside Down” in a 1980s Exchange’, in Maurice Jr. Labelle, The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization: Post-Orientalism and the Politics of Difference, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023, pp. 120-139

28Apr24

Excerpt: Edward Said responded emphatically to Michael Walzer’s Exodus and Revolution. Walzer had presented an argument that is part of a long-lasting political tradition I have called “the world turned inside out”: the attempt to constitute political regimes elsewhere as an alternative to embracing emplaced change. Walzer had deliberately or unwillingly mis-understood Exodus and its politics and presented them as constituting revolutionary and progressive traditions. Against this misrepresentation, Said restated the “world turned upside down,” the attempt to change the world by reshaping specific geographies.3 He demolished Walzer’s contention that Exodus could sustain a revolutionary template and reflected on the exclusions that Exodus as politics is inevitably premised. This paper revisits this 1985–86 exchange by referring to the long history of opposition between revolution and displacement as polit-ical options.


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