Des sociétés esclavagistes à nos jours, ma recherche-intervention développe une pensée de l’imaginaire du racisme colonial. Au moment de la IIIe République, j’ai identifié le renforcement d’un imaginaire politique fonctionnant avec ce que j’ai nommé l’imaginaire social figuredunoir, comme récit mythique d’individus réunis et forts face à des individus isolés, séparés et sans valeurs. Dans le cadre de mon investigation au sein de l’association Les Indivisibles (2007), j’ai réalisé, après une phase d’observation, 21 entretiens sociobiographiques afin d’identifier comment ce récit avait contribué à sa fondation. L’association s’étant constituée en réaction aux discours médiatiques et politiques sur les émeutiers de 2005, j’ai porté attention aux processus inconscients allant de ces émeutes urbaines à la réunion de membres fondateurs. Cette analyse m’a permis de dégager que des phénomènes d’amplification ont activé des motions phobiques liées à la peur de l’infériorisation raciale et de la barbarie qui se sont trouvées compensées, au plan imaginaire, par la proclamation, à nouveaux frais, d’une République une et indivisible, d’où le choix du nom de l’association : Les Indivisibles. De 2007 à 2013, j’ai repéré qu’entre les membres fondateurs et les sympathisants, ce récit imaginaire collectif était mis en travail - notamment au moment de l’année anniversaire du groupement - ce qui m’a donné d’explorer le rapport à la colonisation et au racisme des interviewés. Ainsi, j’ai identifié qu’aux niveaux institutionnel, intergénérationnel et subjectif, l’intériorisation des hiérarchies raciales et l’incorporation de traumatismes liés à l’extermination et aux persécutions forment les processus spécifiques du racisme colonial contemporain. / In the context of contemporary slave societies, my research develops an imaginary thought of colonial racism. At the time of the Third Republic, I identified the strengthening of political imaginary that I have named the social imaginary figuredunoir, like a mythical story of individuals united and strong in the face of isolated individuals who are separated and without values. As part of my investigation into the association's Indivisible (2007), I conducted twenty-one sociobiographic interviews after an observation phase in order to identify how these narratives have contributed to his foundation. The group is forming in response to media and political discourse on the 2005 riots; I paid attention to the unconscious processes from the riots to the meeting of the founding members. This analysis made it clear to me that the amplification phenomena is activating phobic motions related to the fear of racial inferiority and barbarism. They found themselves compensate an imaginary plain, by proclamation, a new cost, of a Republique one and indivisible hence the title : Indivisibles. From 2007 to 2013, I realized that the founding members and supporters, and this collective imaginary narrative began work, in particular, at the time of the anniversary of the founding of the group. This inspired me to explore the relationship between colonization and racism in the interviewed people. I identified on institutional, generational and subjective levels, the internalization of racial hierarchies and the incorporation of trauma related to the extermination and persecution which give form to the specific processes of contemporary colonial racism.

What must we transform in ourselves as white settlers to become open to the possibility of ethical, respectful, authentic relationships with Indigenous peoples and Indigenous lands? Situating this research in Stó:lō Téméxw (Stó:lō lands/world) and in relationships with Stó:lō people, this question has become an effort to understand what it means to be xwelítem and how white settlers might transform xwelítem ways of being towards more ethical ways of being. Xwelítem is a Halq’eméylem concept used by Stó:lō people which translates as the hungry, starving ones, and is often used to refer to ways of being many Stó:lō associate with white settler colonial society, past and present. Drawing on insights and wisdom of Stó:lō and settler mentors I consider three aspects of xwelítem ways of being. First, to be xwelítem is to erase Stó:lō presence, culture and nationhood, colonial history and contemporary colonial realities of Indigenous oppression and dispossession, and settler privilege. Second, being xwelítem means attempting to dominate, control, and repress those who are painted as “inferior” in dominant cultural narratives, it means plugging into racist colonial narratives and stereotypes. Third, being xwelítem is to be hungry and greedy, driven by consumption and lacking respect, reverence and reciprocity for the land. Guided by Indigenous and decolonizing methodologies, critical place inquiry, narrative therapy, and autoethnography, I shape three narratives that speak to each aspect of being xwelítem, looking back towards its roots and forward towards pathways of transformation. I draw on interviews and experiences with Stó:lō and settler mentors, personal narratives, family history, and literature from critical Indigenous studies, anti-colonial theory, settler colonial studies, analytic psychology, and critical race theory. I aim to share what I have learned from rather than about Stó:lō culture, stories, teachings, and practices as these have been shared in relationships and as they have pushed me towards seeing anew myself and my family, communities, histories, and cultures. I have also walked this path as I have become a mom, and the co-alignment of these journeys has meant a focus on my role as a parent in recognizing and intervening with becoming/being xwelítem as it influences my daughter. I specifically center the space of intergenerational parent-child relationships and intimate family experiences as a deep influence on developing white settler subjectivities, and therefore also a relational space of profound transformative potential. I end with a call for settlers to offer our gifts towards the wellbeing of the land and Indigenous peoples through cycles of reciprocity as a basis for ethical relationships. Transforming white settler subjectivities is situated within the broader vision of participating in co-resistance, reparations and restitution, of bringing about justice and harmony, which inherently involves supporting the self-determination and resurgence of Indigenous peoples. / Graduate

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