Yann Allard-Tremblay publishes the book Disjunctures: Indigenous Redirections in Political Theory with Oxford University Press.

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Abstract

Disjunctures: Indigenous Redirections in Political Theory offers a critical, comparative engagement with North American Indigenous and dominant Euro-modern political traditions, and explores the irreconcilable differences between them. These differences disclose political options that cannot be pursued simultaneously or, in a word, disjunctures. For contemporary political societies committed to reconciliation, choices will have to be made. While these disjunctures are explored in the context of Canada, they are nevertheless disclosive of an edifying political otherwise to currently dominant dispensations. Disjunctures argues that dominant Euro-modern traditions model political societies according to notions of justice, and following the determinations of an independent, autonomous people. The associated practices of governance express an ethos of mastery that is fundamentally unreciprocal and unresponsive to other humans, other-than-humans, and ecological contexts. In contrast, Disjunctures argues that Indigenous traditions model political societies as part of a broader ecological context of understanding, and thus give priority to the search for, and maintenance of, harmony. These traditions provide a political model that is nonhierarchical, noncoercive, and primarily focused on the need to sustain and preserve relationships with others, other-than-humans, and the land itself. As such, they require a deep reciprocal responsiveness in governance. Disjunctures explores the consequences that recognizing these irreconcilable political options will have for the political project of reconciliation, arguing that reconciliation must be transformative, of both political structures and subjectivities. Ultimately, Disjunctures argues that Indigenous political traditions disclose an attractive, decolonial path toward which political theory and conduct should be redirected.