This article unpacks the logic of the equivalence invoked by the Government of Canada between Indigenous consent and the inclusion of Indigenous peoples and knowledges in impact assessment. We situate the logic within the politics of recognition in Canada-a politics that aims to shore up national unity in the face of regular challenges to it. We use the Canadian results from a recent scoping review on conceptions of environmental justice in impact assessment to highlight the challenges of invoking recognition, and we provide a theoretical analysis of these challenges. To do this, we highlight the ways in which 'we-making' is 'knowledge-making' and 'knowledge-making' is 'we-making'. In this sense, recognizing Indigenous knowledges is part of Canada's answer to the challenge of constructing and stabilizing a political 'we': a community of political subjects with shared connection to a nation state via the institutional, social, and cultural apparatuses that generate the kind of publicly visible legal and technical knowledge upon which the state's authority depends. We show how this project relies on actively obscuring the relationship between 'we-making' and 'knowledge-making' by treating 'knowledge-making' as neutral and un-situated, putting into practice a universalist logic. This logic shores up power because obscuring the situatedness of dominant knowledges also obscures the situatedness of the dominant political orders with which they are intertwined. We ultimately argue that Canada's approach to recognizing Indigenous knowledges helps consolidate power by sidestepping ongoing jurisdictional struggles with Indigenous peoples.

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作为认知承认的“同意”：土著知识、加拿大影响评估和殖民自由民主秩序。

本文阐述了加拿大政府在原住民同意与将原住民及其知识纳入影响评估之间所援引的等同逻辑。我们将这一逻辑置于加拿大的承认政治中——这种政治旨在在面对经常性挑战时加强国家团结。我们利用加拿大最近对影响评估中的环境正义概念进行范围界定审查的结果来强调援引承认的挑战，并对这些挑战进行理论分析。为此，我们强调“我们创造”就是“知识创造”，而“知识创造”就是“我们创造”。从这个意义上说，承认土著知识是加拿大应对构建和稳定政治“我们”挑战的一部分：一个政治主体的共同体，通过产生这种知识的制度、社会和文化机构与民族国家有着共同的联系。国家权威所依赖的公开可见的法律和技术知识。我们展示了这个项目如何通过将“知识制造”视为中立和无情境，来积极模糊“我们制造”和“知识制造”之间的关系，从而将普遍主义逻辑付诸实践。这种逻辑支撑了权力，因为模糊了主导知识的情境性也模糊了与其交织在一起的主导政治秩序的情境性。我们最终认为，加拿大承认土著知识的做法有助于通过回避与土著人民正在进行的管辖权斗争来巩固权力。