Making and Breaking Settler Space: Five Centuries of Colonization in North America - Hardcover

Barker, Adam J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774865407 ISBN 13: 9780774865401

Publisher: University of British Columbia Press, 2021

Synopsis

Offers an innovative new theory of how settler spaces have evolved.
 
Drawing on multiple disciplines, archival sources, pop culture, and personal experience, Making and Breaking Settler Space offers a new analytical model that shows how settler spaces have evolved. From the colonization of Turtle Island in the 1500s to problematic activist practices by would-be settler allies today, Adam Barker traces the trajectory of settler colonialism, drawing out details of its operation and unflinchingly identifying its weaknesses. In doing so, Barker asks such questions as: How have settlers used violence and narrative to transform Turtle Island into “North America”? What does that say about our social systems, and what happens next?
 
Making and Breaking Settler Space proposes an innovative spatial theory of settler colonization in Canada and the United States. In doing so, it offers a framework within which settlers can pursue decolonial actions in solidarity with Indigenous communities.

About this title

About the Author

Adam J. Barker is a settler Canadian from the territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe people and adjunct research professor of Indigenous and Canadian studies at Carleton University. He is coauthor of Settler: Colonialism and Identity in 21st Century Canada.
 

Edition details

• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774865407
• ISBN 13: 9780774865401
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 286