Week Nine: The Transit of Empire: Jodi A. Byrd

 

1.     Transit:  “to be in motion, to exist liminally n the ungrievable spaces of suspicion and unintelligibility. . .to be made to move.”  p. xv

2.     “might be more suited to diaspora studies and border-crossing than to a notion such as indigeneity that is often taken as rooted and static, located in a discrete place.” p. xvi

3.     Chickasaw sovereignty and movement p. xvi

4.     “To be in transit is to be active presence in a world of relational movements and countermovements.  To be in transit is to exist relationally, multiply.”  p. xvii

5.     What are our ongoing conversations about sovereignty, power and indigeneity?  NB:  p. xvii

6.     “consider how ideas of “Indianness” have created conditions of possibility for U.S. empire to manifest its intent.”  p.  xvii

7.     the coercion of struggles for social justice…into complicity with colonization p. xvii (i.e., Occupy Wall Street)

8.     What are alternatives to the entanglements of race and colonialism?  p. xviii

9.     “the Derealization of the ‘Other’” p. xviii

10. NB p. xix and what happens when “diaspora collides with settler colonialism”

11. “How might the terms of current academic and political debates change if the responsibilities of that very real lived condition of colonialism were prioritized as a condition of possibility?”  p. xx

12. How racialization and colonization work:  p. xxiii

13. Impossible choices for social justice activists:  p. xxiv

14. How do we engage in a “critical reevaluation of the elaboration of these historical processes of oppression…”? p. xxv-xxvi

15. What is the alternative to “a historical aphasia of the conquest of indigenous peoples?” p. xxvi

16.  What would it mean to see the colonization of the Americas as unresolved? p. xxvi

17.   How do we read the cacophonies of colonialism?  p. xxvii

18. Haksuba:  p. xxvii-xxviii

19. “Being Indigenous”  Alfred and Corntassel p. xxix-xxx

20. Manichean allegories:  foreign/native, colonizer/colonized p. xxix

21. Centering indigenous epistemologies p. xxix

22. What does transformative accountability look like?  p. xxx

23. “Indigenous critical theory might, then, provide a diagnostic way of reading and interpreting the colonial logics that underpin cultural, intellectual, and political discourses.  But is asks that settler, native and arrivant each acknowledge their own positions within empire and then reconceptualize space and history to make visible what imperialism and its resultant settler colonialisms and diasporas have sought to obscure.”  p. xxx

24.  How people view the field (think back on your view of ES, and our discussions of alternative models of teaching ES): p. xxxi

25. “the dialectics of genocide” p. xxxiv

26. moving from vertical to horizontal interactions:  p. xxxiv

27. “transform how we approach these issues, in ways that reflect the best of our governance and diplomatic traditions.”  p. xxxv

28. binary colonial logics:  p. xxxvi

29. dynamics of colonial discourses:  p. xxxvi

30. “I also want to imagine cacophonously, to understand that the historical processes that have created our contemporary moment have affected everyone at various points along their transits with and against empire.”  p. xxxix

31. “provide possible entry points into critical theories that do not sacrifice indigenous worlds and futures in the pursuit of the now of the everyday.”  p. xxxix