COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course discusses ways in which Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island, with a special focus on the lands claimed by the Canadian state, have and are actively responding and resisting to assimilation policies, colonialism and state power. The course seeks to discuss different ways in which Indigenous peoples have sought to protect and assert their distinct political status, rights and cosmologies. The focus is put on understanding and theorizing the political agency of Indigenous peoples, with a particular attention given to Indigenous theorists.
EXPANDED COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course adopts a multidisciplinary – sociological, philosophical, political, and historical – approach in order to explore and understand the contexts that allow us to make sense of Indigenous resistance and the relationship between Indigenous activism and Indigenous identities. The course explores (1) significant historical moments of Indigenous resistance; (2) significant contemporary moments of Indigenous resistance; (4) significant concepts, ideas and texts supporting, justifying and elaborating Indigenous activism and its context; (5) ways in which Indigenous worldviews inform the forms of activism and resistance adopted; (6) ways in which resurgence is a key component of Indigenous resistance and activism.
This course discusses ways in which Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island, with a special focus on the lands claimed by the Canadian state, have and are actively responding and resisting to assimilation policies, colonialism and state power. The course seeks to discuss different ways in which Indigenous peoples have sought to protect and assert their distinct political status, rights and cosmologies. The focus is put on understanding and theorizing the political agency of Indigenous peoples, with a particular attention given to Indigenous theorists.
EXPANDED COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course adopts a multidisciplinary – sociological, philosophical, political, and historical – approach in order to explore and understand the contexts that allow us to make sense of Indigenous resistance and the relationship between Indigenous activism and Indigenous identities. The course explores (1) significant historical moments of Indigenous resistance; (2) significant contemporary moments of Indigenous resistance; (4) significant concepts, ideas and texts supporting, justifying and elaborating Indigenous activism and its context; (5) ways in which Indigenous worldviews inform the forms of activism and resistance adopted; (6) ways in which resurgence is a key component of Indigenous resistance and activism.
- Teacher: Yann Allard-Tremblay