The 2016 International Political Economy and Ecology Summer School
Resurgencies: Settler-Colonialism and Radical Indigenous Politics
Monday May 16 to Friday May 27, 2016, York University, Toronto, Canada
Instructor: *Glen Coulthard*, assistant professor in the First Nations
and Indigenous Studies Program and the Department of Political Science
at the University of British Columbia.
For more information on the 2016 IPEE Summer School, please contact the
course coordinators at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Coordinators: *Liette Gilbert* and *Stefan Kipfer*, Faculty of
Environmental Studies
Course Description
*ENVS 6275, GEOG 5395, POLS 6282*
In his masterful text, /Culture and Imperialism/, Edward Said writes:
“As imperialism increased in scope and depth, so too, in the colonies
themselves, the resistance mounted. Just as in Europe, the global
accumulation that gathered the colonial domains into the world economy
was supported and enabled by a culture giving empire ideological
license, so too in the overseas /imperium /the massive political,
economic, military resistance was carried forward and informed by an
actively provocative and challenging culture of resistance.”
This graduate seminar will take up many of Said’s core referents in this
passage – colonial ideology, accumulation by dispossession, culture, and
resistance – via an exploration of the relationship between Western
political theory and settler-colonization through five lenses:
liberalism, marxism, feminism, anarchism, classical anti-colonialism and
Indigenous resurgence. In doing so, we will attempt to answer, in a
provisional manner, the following questions: in what ways have these
diverse traditions within Western political thought served, either
implicitly or explicitly, to justify the dispossession of Indigenous
peoples’ lands and self-determining authority, on the one hand, and in
what ways have Indigenous peoples and their allies been able to
critically appropriate and transform these theoretical frameworks to
support Indigenous struggles for land and freedom, on the other? In
answering these questions, this course will provide participants with a
radical introduction and interrelated cultural, historical, political,
and economic context that informs the experiences of First
Nations/Indigenous people and communities in Canada drawing from a
foundational understanding that borrows from critical Western and
Indigenous intellectual and cultural traditions.
*Glen Coulthard* is Yellowknives Dene and an assistant professor in the
First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Department of
Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is the
author of /Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of
Recognition /(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), and
winner of the 2016 Caribbean Philosophical Association's Frantz Fanon
Award for Most Outstanding Book. Glen has written and published
extensively on the topics of contemporary political theory, indigenous
thought and politics, and radical social and political thought (Marxism,
anarchism, post-colonialism).
*statement of interest* due by March 1, 2016 to [log in to unmask]
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