Panel discussion at SFU on Red Skin/White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Where much of contemporary mainstream media focus on recognition and reconciliation as a method of reconfiguring the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada, Coulthard argues that recognition primarily serves the interests of settler-colonial power. For him, processes of recognition and cultural accommodation are not only inadequate instruments to address the justice demands of First Nations but are now a central means through which colonial dispossession is reproduced. From the official apology from the Government of Canada, to reconciliation ceremonies of the past few years, to the modern day land claims process, Coulthard argues that the politics of recognition too often serve the interests of colonialism and has very little to do with addressing justice in either the historical or contemporary sense. In exploring the work of Indigenous resistance movements like Red Power and Idle No More, Coulthard highlights the new possibilities of authentic decolonization. By bringing Frantz Fanon’s important work to shed light on settler-colonization and Indigenous resistance, this book will surely be talked about for many years to come and will inform Indigenous organizing and relations to the state, both theoretically and practically. vancouverobserver/news/panel-discussion-sfu-red-skinwhite-masks-rejecting-colonial-politics-recognition
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:28:51 +0000
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