Making and Breaking Settler Space: Five Centuries of Colonization in North America - Softcover

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<b>Offers an innovative new theory of how settler spaces have evolved.</b><br> &#160;<br> Drawing on multiple disciplines, archival sources, pop culture, and personal experience,&#160;<i>Making and Breaking Settler Space</i>&#160;offers a new analytical model that shows how settler spaces have evolved. From the colonization of Turtle Island in the 1500s to problematic activist practices by would-be settler allies today, Adam Barker traces the trajectory of settler colonialism, drawing out details of its operation and unflinchingly identifying its weaknesses. In doing so, Barker asks such questions as: How have settlers used violence and narrative to transform Turtle Island into &#8220;North America&#8221;? What does that say about our social systems, and what happens next?<br> &#160;<br><i>Making and Breaking Settler Space</i>&#160;proposes an innovative spatial theory of settler colonization in Canada and the United States. In doing so, it offers a framework within which settlers can pursue decolonial actions in solidarity with Indigenous communities.

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