Unsettling! Pamela Banting, ‘Colony Collapse Disorder: Settler Dreams, the Climate Crisis, and Canadian Literary Ecologies’, Studies in Canadian Literature, 2019 | settler colonial studies blog

Unsettling! Pamela Banting, ‘Colony Collapse Disorder: Settler Dreams, the Climate Crisis, and Canadian Literary Ecologies’, Studies in Canadian Literature, 2019

02Aug19

Excerpt: Of all the critical and theoretical keywords and practices that have devolved from poststructuralism — decentering, deconstructing, dismantling, disrupting, disturbing, problematizing, resisting, troubling, undoing, and others — at least in Canada at the present time the most important such keyword might be “unsettling,” both in the sense of creating a disturbance within the hegemony of the moment but also in the more direct and applied sense of un-settling settlement.

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