Becoming Indigenous: the 'speculative turn' in anthropology and the (re)colonisation of indigeneity

• Published in: Postcolonial studies Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 485 - 504
• Main Authors: Chandler, David, Reid, Julian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 01.10.2020; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Anthropology; Appropriation; Colonialism; Indigeneity; Indigenous peoples; Modernity; ontopolitics; speculative turn

The Indigenous have become central to contemporary critical and governmental imaginaries as the West tries to cope with planetary crises imbricated in the legacies of modernity and settler colonialism. As such, Indigenous methods and practices are increasingly constructed as offering futural possibi...