Settler colonial imaginaries are constructed through the repeated, intergenerational layering of settler ecologies onto Indigenous ecologies; they result in fortified ignorance of the land, Indigenous peoples, and the networks of relationality and responsibility that sustain co-flourishing. Kyle Whyte (2018) terms this fortification of settler ignorance vicious sedimentation. In this paper, we argue that Outlaw Country music plays important roles in sedimenting settler imaginaries. We begin by clarifying the epistemic dimensions of vicious sedimentation. We then explore specific cases where Outlaw Country songs function as epistemic scaffolding for maintaining and preserving deeply sedimented settler imaginaries. Finally, we conclude by considering ways of using country music as epistemic scaffolding for constructing resistant epistemologies, through the processes of trickster hermeneutics (Vizenor, 1999) and epistemic chronostratigraphy.

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非法认识论：抵制乡村音乐定居者无知的恶毒

定居者的殖民想象是通过将定居者生态代代相传地叠加到土著生态上来构建的；它们导致对土地、土著人民以及维持共同繁荣的关系和责任网络的无知。凯尔·怀特 (Kyle Whyte) (2018) 将这种定居者无知恶性沉淀的防御工事称为. 在本文中，我们认为 Outlaw 乡村音乐在沉淀定居者的想象中起着重要作用。我们首先澄清恶性沉降的认知维度。然后，我们探讨了具体案例，在这些案例中，Outlaw Country 歌曲充当了认知脚手架，用于维护和保存深深沉淀的定居者想象。最后，我们通过 trickster 解释学 (Vizenor, 1999) 和认知年代地层学的过程，考虑使用乡村音乐作为构建抗拒认识论的认知脚手架的方法。