Description
Edited by David MacDonald, a mixed race Indo-Trinidadian and Scottish political science professor at the University of Guelph, and Emily Grafton, a citizen of the Métis Nation raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Treaty 1 territory. She is an Associate Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Regina (Saskatchewan) in Treaty 4.
On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Lands and Peoples is the first installment in a comprehensive collection investigating settler colonialism as a state mandate, a structuring logic of institutions, and an alibi for violence and death. The book examines how settler identities are fashioned in opposition to nature and how eras of settler colonialism have come to be defined. Scholars and thinkers explore how settlers understood themselves as servants of empire, how settler identities came to be predicated on racialization and white supremacy, and more recently, how they have been constructed in relation to multiculturalism.
Featuring perspectives from Indigenous, Black, mixed-race, and other racialized, queer, and white European-descended thinkers from across a range of disciplines, On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Lands and Peoples addresses the fundamental truths of this country. Essays engage contemporary questions on the legacy of displacement that settler colonialism has wrought for Indigenous people and racialized settlers caught up in the global implications of empire.
Asserting that reconciliation is a shared endeavor, the collection’s final section exposes the myth at the heart of Canada’s constitutional legitimacy and describes the importance of affirming Indigenous rights, protecting Indigenous people (especially women) from systemic violence, and holding the Canadian settler nation state—which has benefited from the creation and maintenance of genocidal institutions for generations—accountable. Contains 3 figures.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Contributor Biographies
David B MacDonald and Emily Grafton, “Introduction: Critical Engagements with Canadian
Settler Colonialism: Colonization, Land Theft, Gender Violence, Imperialism, and Genocide”
Section 1: Considering Violence and Genocide in the Canadian Settler State
Karine Duhamel, “I feel like my spirit knows violence: interrogating the language of
temporality and crisis for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and LGBTQ
people.”
James Daschuck, “The Battleford hangings and the rise of the settler colonial state.”
David B MacDonald, “Match and Exceed: Why Recognizing Genocide in Canada is Only the
First Step in Promoting Indigenous Self-Determination.”
Malissa Bryan, “Unsettled Arrivants: Imagining Black & Indigenous Solidarity Under Settler
Colonialism.”
Angie Wong, “Labouring and Living in Canada: Early Chinese Arrivants and Making Settler
Colonial Canada.”
Section 2: Logics of Empire, Colonialism, and Unsettlement
Liam Midzain-Gobin, “Imperial circulation, implicatedness and co-conspiracy, racialized
interruptions of settler colonialism in Canada.”
Peter Kulchyski, “A Contribution to Periodizing Settler Colonial History in Canada”
Ajay Parasram, “Learning Settler Colonialism: Double Diaspora and Transnational Imperial
Refraction.”
Andrew Woolford, “Settler natures: becoming settler against water.”
Section 3: Settler colonial society: Relating, Reckoning, and Unreconciliation
Chris Lindgren and Michelle Stewart, “Reckoning and Unreconciled: Neil Stonechild, Starlight
Tours, and Racialized Policing in the Settler State.”
Fazeela Jiwa, “On shitheads and revolutionaries: claiming my displaced kin.”
Jerome Melancon, “Relying upon the Colonial Project: Francophone Communities in Minority
Settings within the Bilingual Settler Colonial State.”
Desmond McAllister, “Straddling Different Worlds.”
Bernie Farber and Len Rudner, “B’Chol Dor v’Dor: In each and Every Generation.”
Section 4: Asserting Indigenous Knowledges in settler colonial Canada
Solomon Ratt (poetry) “stolen childhood” and “asastîwa – They pile up”
Joyce Green, “Being and Knowing Home.”
Rebecca Major, “Surviving Institutions in Canada’s Polite Society.”
Paul Simard Smith, “On the Illegitimacy of the Canadian Constitutional Order.”
Emily Grafton, “Resistance and Resurgence: Asserting Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Settler
Colonial Canada.”
“Afterword,” Jeremy Patzer