Canoeing through settler colonialism: Brandon Pludwinski, ‘Postcolonial im/mobilities Youth summer camp canoe travel in Algonquin Provincial Park’, in Dominic Lapointe, Michela Stinson, Meghan Muldoon, Bryan Grimwood (eds), Justice, Power, and Mobility in Tourism, Routledge, 2026 | settler colonial studies blog

Canoeing through settler colonialism: Brandon Pludwinski, ‘Postcolonial im/mobilities Youth summer camp canoe travel in Algonquin Provincial Park’, in Dominic Lapointe, Michela Stinson, Meghan Muldoon, Bryan Grimwood (eds), Justice, Power, and Mobility in Tourism, Routledge, 2026

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Abstract: Canadian parks and protected areas, spaces discursively considered external to human influence and social structures, are often tethered to unjust settler-colonial legacies and power imbalances that unevenly support and structure movement. This is especially problematic for several youth summer camps who, year after year, lead thousands of campers through these “wild and untouched” spaces. This chapter will expand on the ideas of im/mobility justice and situates a postcolonial approach to conceptualizing how touristic movements in parks and protected areas are structured and intertwined with colonial injustices. Specifically, it will show how mobilities and postcolonial research intersect to highlight modern-day manifestations of colonial rule that have normalized through movements across time and space. The postcolonial mobilities approach offers tourism researchers, practitioners, and clients a way to rethink the foundations upon which mobilities rest and, ultimately, change practices to bring forward a more socially just im/mobility.

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