Audra Simpson - Sovereignty Of Critique

Question 1

What is sovereignty

Answer 1

• western exceptionalism -> the idea that sovereignty is confined only to European ideals =, and as such deeply tied or “conditions of imperial settler colonialism.” (P.87)
• indigenous belonging, dignity, and justice

Question 2

What is Simpson questioning?

Answer 2

Is sovereignty the right thing for us to think with?

Question 3

Answer:

Answer 3

Yes, but not after a repositioning a reclassification of its purpose

Question 4

Tribal sovereignty

Answer 4

• constitutionally recognized right of indigenous people to govern themselves
• # a form of relationality - > “a relationality to land, water, peoples” that is ontological (about the nature of being)(p688)

Question 5

Sovereignty as refusal

Answer 5

• refusal of epistimic domination or conceptual prisons
  > an argument for “intellectual independence” from settler frameworks and knowledges
  > a form of critique
  >refusal of conceptual prisons
  > refusal of power over indigenous life