Contemporary liberal governance requires constant access to a historical “reset” button, a simultaneous acknowledgement and disavowal of history. This is especially so in times of emergency or crisis; we are, supposedly, “all in this together.” The political economic institutions that facilitate this false solidarity—the anti-social contract—range from the mundane to emergency measures, but they share an origin in, and gain their legitimacy from, a key mechanism of liberal social life: contract. If contracts “settle” the past, what can build solidarity in the shadow of a past that cannot be settled?.
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Mann, G. (2020). Settler-colonialism’s anti-social contract The Wiley Invited Lecture at the 2019 annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers. Canadian Geographer, 64(3), 433–444. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12645
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