People tell me I need to stop using such academic language in my writing. I need to write in a way that people will understand. Sounds like a good idea! My wife tells me this. So does my sister. Pretty sure my mother-in-law has made this suggestion too. And they're right! And believe it or not, I'm trying! I'd like to think the difference between what I'm getting in and what I'm putting out is significant. For example, here are a couple sentences from a book I just sat down to read:
I argue that the settler colonial situation establishes a system of relationships comprising three different agencies: the settler coloniser, the indigenous colonised, and a variety of differently categorised exogenous alterities. In this context, indigenous and subaltern exogenous Others appeal to the European sovereign to articulate grievances emanating from settler abuse, the metropolitan agency interposes its sovereignty between settler and indigenous or subaltern exogenous communities (establishing “protectorates” of Aborigines, for example), and settlers insist on their autonomous capacity to control indigenous policy.
Great! Glad we got that cleared up. And here's the main point from another book today:
Bringing a postcolonial perspective to urbanizing colonial environments, this book explores the racialized politics of these two settler-colonial landscapes at the spatial, imaginative, social, and legal levels and in a comparative context. More importantly, it examines the racialized transformations of these developing cities and proposes that these urbanizing colonial precincts can be viewed as formative sites on the Pacific Rim, where bodies and spaces were rapidly transformed and mutually imbricated in sometimes violent ways, reflecting the making of plural settler-colonial modernities.
Great! So good to know about that mutual imbrication. So you see, I'm trying. And I will get better at it, I hope.
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