Society as Reality and Construction: Decolonial Citizenship‐Making

Kymlicka asks whether the Marshallian vision of society‐ and membership‐making remains relevant when thinking about possible Indigenous futures. In this article, I first respond to this question. Given the meticulousness of Kymlicka's analysis, my response should be read as complementary, offering additional considerations that I think warrant further attention. I then engage the challenge Kymlicka poses at the close of his Indigeneity section, where he observes that many Indigenous peoples aspire to nest kinship and citizenship, including the steering and social rights associated with citizenship. He also urges political theorists to take this aspiration seriously and explore the conditions of its realization. I examine this aspiration under the rubric of what I provisionally call here decolonial citizenship‐making.