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Turning on the ‘treaty turn’: Corey Snelgrove, ‘Treaty and the Problem of Colonial Reification’, Theory & Event, 25, 1, 2022, pp. 98-123

19Jan22

Abstract: Over the last two decades, Canadian political and social thought has experienced a “treaty turn” that calls for non-Indigenous Canadians to remember a forgotten “settler treaty tradition.” In this diagnostic essay, I draw out both a conceptual limitation of this turn in its obfuscation of the critical moment in Indigenous treaty visions, and a political limitation of overlooking the social forces that block and might enable the realization of treaty that follows its emphasis on the vertical (self-interpretation) rather than horizontal (social relation) axis of settler colonial reification.


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