Settler colonial reconciliationism (reconciliation as a settler resource)? Myra Hird, Hillary Predko, Extracting Reconciliation: Indigenous Lands, (In)human Wastes, and Colonial Reckoning, Routledge, 2023 | settler colonial studies blog

Settler colonial reconciliationism (reconciliation as a settler resource)? Myra Hird, Hillary Predko, Extracting Reconciliation: Indigenous Lands, (In)human Wastes, and Colonial Reckoning, Routledge, 2023

08Jun23

Description: Extracting Reconciliation: Indigenous Lands, (In)human Wastes, and Colonial Reckoning argues that reconciliation constitutes a critical contemporary mechanism through which colonialism is seeking to ensure continuing access to Indigenous lands and resources. Making use of two historical case studies concerned with the intersection of resource extraction, Crown/Inuit relations, and waste legacies in Nunavut, Turtle Island (Canada), the authors illuminate the mechanisms of colonial and neoliberal governance globally that promise reconciliation while delivering the status quo. Through Indigenous and non-Indigenous anticolonial and posthuman concepts and theories, the book engages with the inhuman politics of settler colonial extractivism, and explores the socio-ethical social justice dimensions, political possibilities, and environmental implications of a much more challenging and accountable reckoning between (settler) colonialism and Indigenous land rights. Extracting Reconciliation is of interest to students and scholars in gender studies, postcolonial studies, environmental studies, indigenous studies, and politics.

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