Students explore the operation of settler colonialism as a distinct ongoing structure rather than an historical event. Students examine settler colonialism as a cultural project of overt colonial domination producing a new entity, such as Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, and thus premised on the ongoing dispossession of Indigenous Peoples from land. By investigating the process of settler colonialism as it emerged out of colonial expansion and domination globally and attending to the ways in which it manifests and maintains itself locally, students will examine themselves in relation to settler colonialism.
Students explore the operation of settler colonialism as a distinct ongoing structure rather than an historical event. Students examine settler colonialism as a cultural project of overt colonial domination producing a new entity, such as Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, and thus premised on the ongoing dispossession of Indigenous Peoples from land. By investigating the process of settler colonialism as it emerged out of colonial expansion and domination globally and attending to the ways in which it manifests and maintains itself locally, students will examine themselves in relation to settler colonialism.
