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Notes on Becoming a Comrade

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As the devastating effects of capitalist-driven climate crisis grow, Indigenous-led pipeline struggles, landback campaigns, movements against militarism and policing, and the fight to end the patriarchal, colonial violence against Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people have become more urgent than ever. In Notes on Becoming a Comrade, Jaskiran Dhillon explores ways to practice politicized allyship and the necessity for non-Indigenous comrades to stand in direct support of Indigenous people—from Turtle Island to Palestine. But what does it actually mean to be a comrade and what challenges must we overcome to become one?  Approaching these questions through an Indigenous feminist framework, this autoethnographic study charts Dhillon’s own political trajectory as an anticolonial organizer and researcher. In humble, generous, lithe prose she brings her experiences to life—foregrounding relationality, trust, humility, critical self-reflexivity, and learning as the cornerstones of being a good comrade in struggle. From the politics of writing and research to the paralysis of guilt to the complexity of history and identity, Notes on Becoming a Comrade demands we understand and accept the responsibility we all have to fight against colonialism and global capitalism—in all its forms. Learning from the leadership of Indigenous women, Dhillon explicates how gender violence and Indigenous sovereignty; revolutionary environmentalism; and abolition all converge in a global, active, and growing anticolonial and anticapitalist movement that relies on the existence of comrades standing shoulder-to-shoulder in all corners of the world.  Notes on Becoming a Comrade is a powerful call-to-action that uncompromisingly demands us to question what risks we must take and what solidarity we must practice for all of us to truly be free.

Author Biography:

Jaskiran Dhillon is a first generation anticolonial scholar and organizer who grew up on Treaty Six Cree Territory in Saskatchewan, Canada. Her work spans the fields of settler colonialism, anthropology of the state, environmental justice, antiracist feminism, colonial violence, political ecology, youth studies, and Indigenous studies and has been published in The Guardian, Cultural Anthropology, Truthout, Public Seminar, Feminist Formations, Social Texts, and Decolonization among other venues. She is the author of Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention (University of Toronto Press) and the co-editor of Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement (University of Minnesota Press). She is associate professor of global studies and anthropology at The New School in New York City.
Release date Australia
November 21st, 2024
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
144
ISBN-13
9781942173465
Product ID
34852546

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