Decolonial pedagogy: Courtney Strutt, Decolonizing (for settlers): a pedagogical framework for enacting responsibilities, MA dissertation, Lakehead University, 2021 | settler colonial studies blog

Decolonial pedagogy: Courtney Strutt, Decolonizing (for settlers): a pedagogical framework for enacting responsibilities, MA dissertation, Lakehead University, 2021

03Nov21

Excerpt: In 21st century Canada, the logics and ideologies of settler colonialism, white supremacy, and capitalism have formed an entangled web of wicked problems that are inherently about Land. Specifically, stolen Land. As a settler colonial state, Canada’s foundation as a nation rests on illegitimate claims to sovereignty through decrees such as the Doctrine of Discovery and the Papal Bulls and ideologies such as terra nullius and the Christianizing of ‘heathen’ people. For more than 400 years, people from around the world (initially European) have been arriving on, making claims to, and altering this Land with their worldviews, assumptions and systems, entrenching the status of ‘settlers’ upon themselves. In contemporary Canada, citizens live in a modern day colonial state, that is to say, a state governed by racist policies and systems aimed at the elimination and erasure of Indigenous peoples. These policies and systems have been weaponized to create dispossession, dependence, assimilation, and genocide of Indigenous peoples on their own lands through the ideologies of settler colonial capitalism.

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