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Moves to Innocence

Price draws upon the work of Eve Tuck and Wayne K. Yang, to highlight that by not attending to harm we often engage in moves to innocence. Moves to innocence was a phrase coined by Tuck and Yang to discuss that when we conceptualize decolonization as a buzzword, or a new emerging field terminology, outside of the practical and felt daily harms of colonization, we don’t just create colonization into a metaphor, and it makes individuals more open to adapt ‘moves to innocence.’ Moves to innocence occur when in pursuit to not feel guilty about the violent history of settler colonialism, individuals evoke, often rhetorical, strategies that remove their involvement in systems of settler colonialism.

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Updated 2026-01-10

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