Book Review - Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921

Mardhani-Bayne, Logan

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“…Noxolo et al (2008, 147) worry, in fact, that postcolonialism has become a bit too “cozy” a concept in geography and that its political claims are blunted by the partial ways in which postcolonialism is addressed in geographical scholarship. Others argue both that Indigenous peoples remain predominantly understood within the discipline as a homogenous group and that Indigenous geographies continue to be understood principally—and often only—in relation to non‐Indigenous geographies, the latter being remarkably monolithic and white (Kobayashi and de Leeuw 2010; see also Mawani 2009). In sum, even research about Indigenous geographies that is attuned to relations of power, and research that accounts for postcolonial, feminist, and anti‐racist concerns, needs ongoing critique and refinement (see Smith 1999).…”

Section: Geographic Research and Indigenous Peoples: Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory and community‐based research, Indigenous geographies, and the spaces of friendship: A critical engagement

Leeuw

Cameron

Greenwood

2012

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Geographic engagement with Indigenous peoples remains inextricably linked to colonialism. Consequently, studying Indigenous geographies is fraught with ethical and political dilemmas. Participatory and community‐based research methods have recently been offered as one solution to address concerns about the politics of gathering, framing, producing, disseminating, and controlling knowledge about Indigenous peoples. In this article, we critically engage with the emergence of participatory and community‐based research methods as “best practice” for undertaking research into Indigenous geographies. We articulate four concerns with this form of research: a) dissent may be stifled by non‐Indigenous researchers’ investments in being “good”; b) claims to overcome difference and distance may actually retrench colonial research relations; c) the framing of particular methods as “best practices” risks closing down necessary and ongoing critique; and d) institutional pressures work against the development and maintenance of meaningful, accountable, and non‐extractive relations with Indigenous communities. We then contemplate the spatiality of the critique itself. We consider the ways in which our longstanding friendship, as researchers invested at multiple scales with Indigenous geographies and identities, provides its own distinct space of practice within which to confront the political and ethical challenges posed by research with/about/upon Indigenous geographies and peoples. While not arriving at any concrete template for undertaking research about Indigenous geographies, we suggest that certain friendships, established and situated outside research relationships, may be productive spaces within and through which research methods may be decolonized.

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Section: Geographic Research and Indigenous Peoples: Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory and community‐based research, Indigenous geographies, and the spaces of friendship: A critical engagement

Leeuw

Cameron

Greenwood

2012

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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132

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“…Columbia were not exclusively made from leasing land; they could also form around bootlegging and gambling (Jorgenson, 2012;Gorton, 2018;Mawani, 2009). Indigenous men would attend and participate in illegal Chinese gambling houses (Jorgenson, 2012;Gorton, 2018).…”

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Underrepresented Encounters in Mining Towns: Chinese and Indigenous Relations in the Cariboo Region During the 1850s to 1920s

Liang

2024

Preprint

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<p>This research paper is a historical exploration and analysis of the complex relationship between Chinese and Indigenous people in the Cariboo region during the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. Using a historical archival thematic analysis with decolonial theory, this paper examines three mediums of archival resources: the historical newspaper, The Cariboo Sentinel, C.D. Hoy's photographs and the Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs by the Government of Canada. It identifies the friendships, business exchanges and tensions that Chinese and Indigenous people encountered in the historic Cariboo region. Of particular interest to this research is how settler colonialism, whiteness and racism affected the lived experiences and societal attitudes of Chinese-Indigenous relations within the region. These archives provide a glimpse of and exposure to how racialized settler-Indigenous relationships were, both the positive and negative aspects of Chinese and Indigenous encounters.</p>

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“…275-76) argues that Jamaica's greater record of slave revolts relative to other parts of the colonial New World was due to the high absenteeism of whites and the resulting laxness of control, as well as to the greater ratio of slaves to masters and the large number of "slaves who were born freemen," particularly to those from the "highly developed militaristic" Akan regimes. Other book-length imperial studies by historical sociologists that adhere to a methodology of contingent and conjunctural determination include Adams (2005), Ayala (1999), Barnes (1954), Bunker (1991), Colonna (1975, Decoteau (2013), de Dampierre (1967, Erikson (2014), Evans (1997), Fields (1985, Gilette & Sayad (1976), Go (2008a), Gosselin (2002), Lange (2009), Mahoney (2010), Mann (1986, Masqueray (1983), Mawani (2009), Norton (2012), Park (2005, Reader (1961), Saada (2007Saada ( [2012), Sayad et al (1991), Steinmetz (2007), and Weber (1891Weber ( [2010). Taken together, these studies provide a solid basis for the further development of the historical sociology of colonialism, empires, and postcolonialism.…”

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The Sociology of Empires, Colonies, and Postcolonialism

Steinmetz

2014

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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Sociologists are adding specific disciplinary accents to the burgeoning literature in colonial, imperial, and postcolonial studies. They have been especially keen to add explanatory accounts to the historical literature on empires. Starting in the 1950s, sociologists pioneered the study of colonies as historical formations. Against traditional anthropological approaches, sociologists insisted on studying colonizer and colonized in their dynamic interactions, asking how both groups were being transformed. Like contemporary postcolonial scholars, sociologists began asking in the 1950s how metropoles were being remade by overseas colonialism and colonial immigration. Echoing discussions in the 1950s among sociologists working in the colonies, current discussions of postcolonial sociology question the applicability of Western social scientific concepts and theories to the global South and ask how sociology itself has been shaped by empire. Current sociological research on empires focuses on six sets of causal mechanisms: (1) capitalism; (2) geopolitics, war, and violence; (3) cultural representations and subjectivity; (4) resistance and collaboration by the colonized; (5) institutional dimensions of empires and colonies; and (6) conflict and compromise among colonizers at the heart of colonial states.

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Book Review - Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921

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Participatory and community‐based research, Indigenous geographies, and the spaces of friendship: A critical engagement

Participatory and community‐based research, Indigenous geographies, and the spaces of friendship: A critical engagement

Underrepresented Encounters in Mining Towns: Chinese and Indigenous Relations in the Cariboo Region During the 1850s to 1920s

The Sociology of Empires, Colonies, and Postcolonialism

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