Unsettling truths

Modernity, (de-)coloniality and Indigenous futures

Bibliographic Data

ID4465255
AuthorsYin Paradies (0000-0001-9927-7074, Deakin University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume23
Issue4
Pages438-456
Publication date2020-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePostcolonial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1368-8790 • E-ISSN: 1466-1888
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13688790.2020.1809069
OpenAlexW3080257293
LanguageEN
Citations received57

In our world of fractured truths, unparalleled disparities and technological wizardry, it is vital that we interrogate the largely unquestioned political axioms that have brought us to the brink of extinction. In this article, I explore the broader landscape in which settler-coloniality is ensconced through an examination of global modernity. I briefly outline some well-known, but largely subsumed, and mostly unremarked, realities of the contemporary world. I then argue that debt, property, institutions and nation states are the constituent devastations of modernity that we must simultaneously aver and avert. I suggest that the path towards decoloniality entails radical land-based re-localisation, revitalised communalism and embodied kinship with all life. This will necessitate an Indigenisation in which we, collectively across difference and distance, embrace fundamentally transformed relationships of mutuality so as to bring about flourishing egalitarian societies

Aesthetics · Colonialism · Communalism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Flourishing · Indigenization · Indigenous · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Law · Philosophy

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