Abstract
There has been a significant literature produced around the tension between Indigeneity and its relationship to authenticity and the modular nation form, and yet there has been little attention to understanding this tension in light of non-secular spatiotemporal formations. Drawing from both Indigenous notions of peoplehood and postcolonial critiques of this position, this essay will suggest that the peoplehood model can be characterized as an aporia of fixed-fluidity. However, I argue that this aporetic structure cannot simply be reduced to an anachronism or as retrograde nativism within a disenchanted present of secular, empty homogenous time. Rather, the presence of this aporia indexes the conflicting hermeneutical approaches regarding the relationship between secular and non-secular notions of time, space and agency. I ask whether one can translate forms of non-human agency, which move through the non-secular filiations of enchanted supernaturalisms, as referencing ways of conceptualizing the nation that challenge the modular European nation form. I explore how non-secular forms of consciousness and agency provide a pliant nationalist discourse for resisting the colonizing state, while mindful that they simultaneously emerge through the epistemological matrices of settler colonial authority they seek to resist.
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