Unsettled expectations : uncertainty, land and settler decolonization /
"Unsettled Expectations is a critical multi-site ethnography that examines conflict over Indigenous land rights in Canada and the United States as a lens through which to understand historical and ongoing relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in settler colonies. The goal...
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Halifax ; Winnipeg :
Fernwood Publishing,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Part one. Contact zones and the settler colonial present
- Introduction : settler colonialism and contested homelands
- 1. Genealogies of certainty and uncertainty
- 2. Fantasizing and legitimating possession
- Part two. Ontological uncertainties and resurgent colonialism
- Introduction : unsettled feelings and communities
- 3. Defending expectations
- 4. Settler jurisdictional imaginaries in practice : equality, law, race and multiculturalism
- Part three. Imagining otherwise : embracing settler uncertainty
- Introduction : treaty as a verb
- 5. "Turning the doctrine of discovery on its head" : the Onondoga land rights action
- 6. Creative uncertainty and decolonizing relations
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
- Contact Zones And The Settler Colonial Present
- Ontological Uncertainties And Resurgent Colonialism
- Imaging Otherwise: Embracing Settler Uncertainty