All decentering is a recentering: Shabana Ali, ‘Unsettling the South Asian settler: Decentring (non-Indigenous) racial oppression An anti-colonial autoethnography’, Journal of Emerging Sport Studies, 12, 2025 | settler colonial studies blog

All decentering is a recentering: Shabana Ali, ‘Unsettling the South Asian settler: Decentring (non-Indigenous) racial oppression An anti-colonial autoethnography’, Journal of Emerging Sport Studies, 12, 2025

02Dec25

Abstract: Several scholarly works have opened discourse around the complicity of non-White settlers in continuing the oppression of Indigenous Peoples through their ideological adoption of and material participation in White supremacist neoliberal capitalist structures, structures set in place through settler-colonial possibility (Chen, 2021; Pulido, 2018; Saranillio, 2013; Tuck & Yang, 2012; Upadhyay, 2016). This anti-colonial autoethnography (Laurendeau, 2023) attempts to add to this existing body of scholarship, by further considering the nuances and specificities of settler identities. More specifically, it is an exploration—without territorialization—of this author’s struggles as a racialized settler, scholar, and outdoor enthusiast involved in social justice work. In holding the twin rope tensions of being the subject of oppressive forces, while reinscribing oppression through these same forces, I attempt to engage in the on-going process of unsettling a settler self, as a means to support decolonization (Steinman, 2020).

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