« The persistence of settler governance and racial capitalism: Jodi A. Byrd, ‘Beast of America: Sovereignty and the Wildness of Objects’, South Atlantic Quarterly, 117, 3, 2018, pp. 599-615
The decolonisation of settler colonialism will be a comprehensive deal: Kristie Dotson, ‘On the way to decolonization in a settler colony: Re-introducing Black feminist identity politics’, AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2018 »

Acknowledging settlers: Richard Pickard, ‘Acknowledgement, Disruption, and Settler-Colonial Ecocriticism’, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2018

19Jul18

Excerpt: At the University of Victoria, where I teach, as at many other Canadian universities, we use a range of territorial acknowledgements. Many academic departments, faculties and individuals have developed their own acknowledgements, and you’ll hear some variants at official university events. The university’s 2017–22 Indigenous Academic Plan, for example, includes the following:

We acknowledge and respect the Lkwungen-speaking peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

The deep tension that underlies these sorts of phrases, deriving from rifts between emptiness and meaning,…


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