Making and Breaking Settler Space

Adam J. Barker is a settler Canadian from the territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe people and an adjunct research professor with the Indigenous and Canadian Studies Program at Carleton University. He is the editor of Settler Colonial Studies and has published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Barker is co-author, with Emma Battell Lowman, of Settler: Colonialism and Identity in 21st Century Canada.

Making and Breaking Settler Space offers important points of conversation and contestation as we continue to figure out what it means to live together in this place, and how we should go about doing something about it. - Coll Thrush (BC Studies) "Barker takes readers on a critical thought journey through relationships between past, present, and future complexities of settler colonialism, space, place, and identity."- Mark T.S. Currie, Carleton University. (University of Toronto Quarterly.) Barker's work presents a strong synthesis of recent work in settler studies. It testifies to his comprehensive understanding, as a self-acknowledged settler, of the dynamics that have presided over the construction of ongoing and structural North American inequities between settler and indigenous peoples. - S. Perreault, Red Deer Polytechnic (Choice)

• Introduction1 Cores and Peripheries: From Imperial Contact to Settler Colonial Claims2 Spatialities of Settlement: Remaking Landscapes and Identities3 Remaking People and Places: States, Suburbs, and Forms of Settlement4 Revolutionary Aspirations? Social Movements and Settler Colonial Complicity5 The Efficacy of Failure: Advancing Struggles in Support of Indigenous Resurgence6 Affinity and Alliance: Breaking the Boundaries of Settler Colonial SpaceNotes; References; Index