The solidarity encounter : women, activism, and creating non-colonizing relations

Summary: On the heels of recent revelations of past and ongoing injustices, reconciliation and solidarity by Indigenous and non-Indigenous people has become even more urgent. But it is a complex endeavour. The Solidarity Encounter takes readers into the fraught terrain of solidarity organizing in settler colonial North America. The investigation grapples with a key tension: colonizing behaviours that result when white women centre their own goals and frameworks as they participate in activism with Indigenous women and groups. However, the book concludes with hope, offering a constructive framework for non-colonizing solidarity that can be applied in any context of unequal power.

Record details

ISBN: 9780774863865 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xiv, 272 pages ; 24 cm
print
Publisher: Vancouver [British Columbia] : UBC Press, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Spectrum of Proximity : White Women, Proximity and Settler/Liberal Self-Making -- 2 Transgressing Cherished Spaces : Indigenous Women on the Impulse to Solidarity -- 3 Risky Romanticization : Cultural Difference, National Belonging and Indigenous Resistance -- 4 Claiming Exceptionalism as the Rule : "Good/White Settler Allies" and the Politics of Declaration -- 5 Rewriting Colonial Scripts : Towards Non-Colonizing Solidarity -- Notes -- References -- Index.