Making and breaking settler space : five centuries of colonization in North America / Adam J. Barker.

Making and breaking settler space : five centuries of colonization in North America / Adam J. Barker.

By
Barker, Adam J., 1980-

Publication Date
2021

Publication Information
Vancouver : UBC Press,

Physical Description
xi, 298 p. : ill., map.

Subject Term
Indigenous peoples.
 
Settler colonialism.
 
Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure.
 
Decolonization.
 
Colonization.
 
Imperialism.
 
Race relations -- History.
 
Ethnic relations.

Summary
Four hundred years. A vast geography. Making and Breaking Settler Space explores how settler spaces have developed and diversified from contact to the present. Adam Barker traces the trajectory of settler colonialism, drawing out details of its operation that are embedded not only in imperialism but also in contemporary contexts that include problematic activist practices by would-be settler allies. Unflinchingly engaging with the systemic weaknesses of this process, he proposes an innovative, unified spatial theory of settler colonization in Canada and the United States that offers a framework within which settlers can pursue decolonial actions in solidarity with Indigenous communities.

Language
English

ISBN
9780774865418

General Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-291) and index.


LibraryCollectionCollectionCall Number
Corner BrookAdult NFic IndigenousAdult Non-Fiction Indigenous970.00497 B24
Grand Falls-Windsor - HarmsworthAdult NFic IndigenousAdult Non-Fiction Indigenous970.00497 B24
Happy Valley - Goose Bay - MelvilleAdult NFic IndigenousAdult Non-Fiction Indigenous970.00497 B24
St. John's - A.C. HunterAdult NFic IndigenousAdult Non-Fiction Indigenous970.00497 B24