Virtual residential schools: Andrew Woolford, Adam Muller, Struan Sinclair, ‘Risky Times and Spaces: Settler Colonialism and Multiplying Genocide Prevention through a Virtual Indian Residential School’, Genocide Studies and Prevention, 13, 3, 2019, pp. 79-96 | settler colonial studies blog

Virtual residential schools: Andrew Woolford, Adam Muller, Struan Sinclair, ‘Risky Times and Spaces: Settler Colonialism and Multiplying Genocide Prevention through a Virtual Indian Residential School’, Genocide Studies and Prevention, 13, 3, 2019, pp. 79-96

29Dec19

Excerpt: Accordingly, the logic of prevention can also be seen to operate as a “logic of elimination.” Just as the logic of elimination, as identified by Patrick Wolfe, works to erase Indigenous presence upon the land while naturalizing non-Indigenous settlement, the logic of prevention turns our gaze away from the many means of elimination (e.g., forced assimilation, removal, linguistic and political destruction), thereby allowing us to imagine North America as a space not needing prevention. Indigenous groups, and the centrality of culture to the ongoingness of these groups, are defined out of the scope of genocide and so out of the scope of prevention, facilitating the perpetuation of a settler colonial logic of elimination by legal and other means.

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