Overview
Five hundred years. A vast geography. And an unfinished project to remake the world to match the desires of settler colonizers. 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? Drawing on multiple disciplines, archival sources, pop culture, and personal experience, Making and Breaking Settler Space creates a 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. Making and Breaking Settler Space proposes an innovative, unified 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Adam J. Barker
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
Weight: 0.580kg
ISBN: 9780774865401
ISBN 10: 0774865407
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 13 October 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"Making and Breaking Settler Space offers important points of conversation and contestation as we continue to figure out what it means to live together in this place, and how we should go about doing something about it. -- Coll Thrush * BC Studies * ""Barker takes readers on a critical thought journey through relationships between past, present, and future complexities of settler colonialism, space, place, and identity."" -- Mark T.S. Currie, Carleton University. * University of Toronto Quarterly. * Barker’s work presents a strong synthesis of recent work in settler studies. It testifies to his comprehensive understanding, as a self-acknowledged settler, of the dynamics that have presided over the construction of ongoing and structural North American inequities between settler and indigenous peoples. -- S. Perreault, Red Deer Polytechnic * Choice *"
Making and Breaking Settler Space offers a comprehensive analysis of the colonial spatialities inherent to the settler state. It is an innovative interpretation of the affective dimensions of settler colonialism, from its obsessive drive for ownership, control, and transcendence to the possibilities that come from failing to meet these expectations. --Soren Larsen, University of Missouri
Author Information
Adam J. Barker is a settler Canadian from the territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe people and an adjunct research professor with the Indigenous and Canadian Studies Program at Carleton University. He is the editor of Settler Colonial Studies and has published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Barker is co-author, with Emma Battell Lowman, of Settler: Colonialism and Identity in 21st Century Canada.
