Unsettled Expectations

Uncertainty, Land and Settler Decolonization

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

What do local conflicts about land rights tell us about Indigenous-settler relations and the challenges and possibilities of decolonization? In Unsettled Expectations, Eva Mackey draws on ethnographic case studies about land rights conflicts in Canada and the U.S. to argue that critical analysis of present-day disputes over land, belonging and sovereignty will help us understand how colonization is reproduced today and how to challenge it. Employing theoretical approaches from Indigenous and settler colonial studies, and in the context of critical historical and legal analysis, Mackey urges us to rethink the assumptions of settler certainty that underpin current conflicts between settlers and Indigenous peoples and reveals settler privilege to be a doomed fantasy of entitlement.Finally, Mackey draws on case studies of Indigenous-settler alliances to show how embracing difficult uncertainty can be an integral part of undoing settler privilege and a step toward decolonization.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-01
Mått:15 x 23 x 1 mm
Vikt:312 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:234
Förlag:Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
ISBN:9781552668894

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Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Eva Mackey is the author of House of Difference: Cultural Politics and National Identity in Canada and is an associate professor in the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University.

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“Lucid and accessible, Unsettled Expectations will appeal to general readers, students and professors, activists and NGO workers, government policy-makers, members of the legal profession, and media.”

Innehållsförteckning

: Part 1: Contact Zones and the Settler Colonial Present: Introduction: Settler Colonialism and contested Homelands: Genealogies of Certainty and Uncertainty: Fantasizing and Legitimating Possession: Part 2: Ontological Uncertainties and Resurgent Colonialism: Introduction: Unsettled Feelings and Communities: Defending Expectations: Settler Juridictional Imaginaries in Practice: Equality, Law, Race and Multiculturalism: Part 3: Imagining Otherwise: Embracing Settler Uncertainty: Introduction: Treaty as a Verb: “Turning the Doctrine of Discovery on its Head”: The Onondaga Land Rights Action: Creative Uncertainty and Decolonizing Relations: Epilogue: “Even After Everything”: References: Index