Political Economies of Settler Colonialism in Canada
Sessions - Calls for Participants
Political Economies of Settler Colonialism in Canada:
Canada is a settler state whose economy depends on its ability to ensure and assert absolute jurisdictional authority in a political-economic context where jurisdiction is far from settled. State assertions of jurisdiction (over Indigenous peoples, their lands and resources) conflict with assertions of Indigenous jurisdiction and sovereignty. Acknowledging that Indigenous resistance and acts of refusal are expressions of Indigenous law and are rooted in Indigenous sovereignty and jurisdiction, this session invites work that examines linkages between settler colonialism and capital accumulation in Canada.
Presentation & discussion topics are invited from across urban, environmental, economic and other sub fields and might (but need not) be related to the following themes:
- How settler colonialism mediates and produces specific forms of economy and governance.
-How capitalism articulates colonialism
-Linkages between dispossession, possession and accumulation
-Jurisdiction, resource extraction and/or environmental governance
-Production of colonial space
-Fiscal policy
-Heath and child welfare
- Gentrification
-Jurisdiction and (critical) infrastructure
-Indigenous surveillance and criminalization
-Settler colonial “natures”
-Sovereignty “management”
-Toxic geographies
-Settler colonialism and neoliberalism/privatization
-Security and securitization of resource capital/critical infrastructure
-Indigenous resistance movements/ways to undermine capitalism and colonial rule
-Blockades and other Indigenous disruptions of the flow of capital
-Indigenous resistance and refusal
-“Risk management” and Indigeneity
-Support for Indigenous resistance and jurisdictional authority
Please contact Anna Stanley at astanley.e@gmail.com by February 27 if you are interested in participating.
--Dr. Anna Stanley
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Research Policy Fellow, Broadbent Institute