Unsettling Allyship, Unlearning and Learning towards Decolonising Solidarity

Autor/inn/en	Kluttz, Jenalee; Walker, Jude; Walter, Pierre
Titel	Unsettling Allyship, Unlearning and Learning towards Decolonising Solidarity
Quelle	In: Studies in the Education of Adults, 52 (2020) 1, S.49-66 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0266-0830
DOI	10.1080/02660830.2019.1654591
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Social Change; Whites; Indigenous Populations; Conservation (Environment); Citizen Participation; Postcolonialism; Personal Narratives; Transformative Learning; Social Attitudes; Social Justice; Activism; Foreign Countries; Canada; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialer Wandel; White; Weißer; Sinti und Roma; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Post colonialism; Postkolonialismus; Erlebniserzählung; Pädagogische Transformation; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Ausland; Kanada; USA
Abstract	Social movements are pedagogical spaces for collective learning across difference. Divergent worldviews, interest and identity, historical legacies and relations of power complicate notions of allyship and solidarity for common cause. In this article, we draw on social movement and transformative learning to reflect on our experiences of learning and unlearning as white settler-colonialists researching allyship in the Standing Rock struggle against an oil pipeline in the United States. Our text is also shaped by our own experience as activists within a local Indigenous-led movement to protect ocean and land from the Trudeau-Kinder Morgan oil pipeline. First we introduce ourselves, our research project, context and argument. We then position our work within social movement and transformative learning scholarship, critique notions of allyship and then solidarity. We argue for the unlearning of colonial practices and mindsets which centre our particular white colonial knowledge, leadership, privilege, power and bodies and learning towards decolonising solidarity. To illustrate this process, we present three personal vignettes that speak about the start of our own 'unlearning of ourselves', and learning of decolonising solidarity. We conclude the article with a discussion of how best we believe learning towards decolonising solidarity might proceed in social movements. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01