CASCAIUAES2017 panel: Indigenizing the Academy: New Moves in Coloniality

Short Abstract

Indigenizing the Academy: New Moves in Coloniality


Indigenous peoples around the world are engaged in, among others,
various forms of physical, discursive, political and economic
movement. This panel will interrogate Indigenous mobility and the role
of anthropologists play in it across a host of vectors.

Long Abstract

Indigenous peoples around the world are engaged in, among others,
various forms of physical, discursive, political and economic
movement. They are also involved in resisting constructions of their
mobility as a political-economic problem by various state and
corporate actors. Settlers around the world, uncomfortable with these
contexts and actions, attempt to re-frame, recalibrate and block this
resistance. Anthropologists continue to play a role in understanding,
translating, collaborating and building relationships with Indigenous
movements while sometimes being criticized for this work by Indigenous
peoples. This panel will interrogate Indigenous mobility and the role
of anthropologists play in it across a host of vectors. For example,
what anti-racist projects are enacted to confront Settler resistance
to Indigenous mobility? How are movement discourses of recognition,
reconciliation and healing etc. being furthered and/or contested? How
is consultation being mobilized in treaty negotiations and/or other
Indigenous/state/corporate contexts? What Indigenous protests are
mobilized to confront dissatisfactions, oppressions and
securitizations? How is how the new mobility of Indigenous peoples
disrupting racism, multiculturalism, nation building and normalizing
discourses? How are forms of media used by Indigenous peoples,
Settlers and anthropologists to advocate for and/or against the above
movements? How is Indigenous knowledge changing medical praxis and
resource extraction regimes? How are anthropologists seen as allies or
as hindrances in these movements and resistances? This panel will
consider other views on movement, Indigenous peoples and
anthropologists.

Dr. Craig Proulx
St. Thomas University
Associate Professor
Anthropology and
FAUST President
1 506 452-0462
cproulx@stu.ca