Anxious Atmospheres of the Apologetic State. The Reconciliation Narrative and Contemporary Settler Colonialism

Seraphine Appel (1)

1 UPF - Universitat Pompeu Fabra [Barcelona]

This article explores how atmospheres in Canada are informed by a colonial attitude, logic of replacement, and hegemonic narratives of relationships to place to suggest that the inconsistencies between the politics of apology and the colonial response when the spatial order is challenged generates settler anxiety. This provocation is offered by considering the ongoing reconciliation rhetoric and decolonial resistance. The former illustrates the stage-value of the æsthethics of reconciliation manifest in politically charged sensitive atmospheres and the latter shows how colonial reaction to the deviant or resistant body illuminates the political potency of corporeal space.

Mots clés: Settler Colonialism; Atmosphere; Political Apology; Reconciliation

Domaines: Architecture, aménagement de l'espace

Seraphine Appel. Anxious Atmospheres of the Apologetic State. The Reconciliation Narrative and Contemporary Settler Colonialism. Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on Ambiances, Alloaesthesia: Senses, Inventions, Worlds, Réseau International Ambiances, Dec 2020, e-conference, France. pp. 274-279, ⟨10.48537/hal-03220316⟩. ⟨hal-03220316⟩