Braiding Liberation Discourses

Dialectical, Civic and Disjunctive Views about Resistance and Violence

Bibliographic Data

ID6238380
AuthorsYann Allard-Tremblay (0000-0002-1620-9664, McGill University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume55
Issue2
Pages259-278
Publication date2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008423922000191
OpenAlexW4229455726
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited27

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

Bridge (graph theory · Citizenship · Colonialism · Conversation · Corporate governance · Criminology · Dialectic · Epistemology · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Philosophy · South African History and Culture

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