Petoukhov Konstantin
University of Liverpool, UK.
Soc Leg Stud. 2023 Oct;32(5):737-755. doi: 10.1177/09646639221138416. Epub 2022 Nov 14.
In the wake of increasing attention to reparations for settler colonialism in recent years, the politics of refusal and contestation of reparations has remained an underexplored area in socio-legal research. This article addresses this gap by foregrounding the perspectives of the colonised as a focal point to examine the strategies they mobilise to stage resistance to state-sponsored redress and to expose the harmful logics and legacies of ongoing settler colonialism. Strategies of resistance are discussed in the context of the Independent Assessment Process - a financial compensation process designed to provide redress to survivors of the physical and sexual violence they had suffered while attending Canada's Indian Residential Schools. This article explores how survivors disrupted the compensation process to advance an anti-colonial agenda, to politicise the violence, and to compel the settler state to recognise their lived experiences and realities of structural violence in the settler colonial present.
近年来，随着对定居者殖民主义赔偿问题的关注度不断提高，赔偿问题上的拒绝与抗争政治在社会法律研究中仍是一个未得到充分探索的领域。本文通过将被殖民者的观点作为焦点，来填补这一空白，以审视他们为抵制国家支持的补救措施而采取的策略，并揭示当前定居者殖民主义有害的逻辑和遗留问题。抵抗策略将在独立评估程序的背景下进行讨论，该程序是一个旨在为在加拿大印第安寄宿学校就读期间遭受身体和性暴力的幸存者提供补救的经济赔偿程序。本文探讨了幸存者如何扰乱赔偿程序，以推进反殖民议程，将暴力问题政治化，并迫使定居者国家承认他们在当前定居者殖民环境下的生活经历和结构性暴力现实。
