Settler colonialism is so instagrammable: Carrie Karsgaard, ‘Resistance to the Trans Mountain Expansion in a Settler Colonial Context’, in Carrie Karsgaard, Instagram as Public Pedagogy: Online Activism and the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Palgrave, 2023, pp. 21-74 | settler colonial studies blog

Settler colonialism is so instagrammable: Carrie Karsgaard, ‘Resistance to the Trans Mountain Expansion in a Settler Colonial Context’, in Carrie Karsgaard, Instagram as Public Pedagogy: Online Activism and the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Palgrave, 2023, pp. 21-74

28May23

Abstract: Across homelands of interconnected life, the Trans Mountain pipeline is being installed according to colonial decision-making that disregards Indigenous sovereignty and instead supports state investments in Canada’s resource economy. Indeed, while the pipeline results in destructive ecological impacts, pipeline politics—and their expressions over Instagram—are more nuanced and complex than environmentalism alone can explain. At material, representational, and ideological levels, the Trans Mountain intersects with colonial nation-building narratives that naturalize resource extraction and transport to the detriment of many entwined ecosystems, communities, and Indigenous nations. In detailing the pipeline in relation to Canada’s nature as a settler colonial state, this chapter, therefore, not only provides meaningful contextual information about the pipeline and its resistance on Instagram but also situates the pipeline issue in relation to settler colonialism more broadly, laying the groundwork for an examination of resistant pipeline public pedagogy toward the transformation of settler colonial relations.

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