" For the master's tools," the poet Audre Lorde wrote," will never dismantle the master's
house." Dismantlings is a study of literary, political, and philosophical critiques of the utopian …

Starting in January 2017 there was a dramatic increase in the number of people crossing
irregularly from the US to make a claim for refugee status in Canada. Officials declared a …

The removal of monuments and the renaming of places have become major flashpoints of
social and political contestation over the past decade. In the United States, there has been a …

Within the context of official multiculturalism and the promotion of tourism to improve the
economic prospects of Taiwanese Indigenous people, ritual dances of 'Amis/Pangcah …

This dissertation examined how the Idle No More movement, particularly during the peak of
Indigenous activity in 2012-13, affected government policy and practice in Canada. It studied …

What are the implications of emergent populist forms of politics and the related use of 'empty
signifiers' for Indigenous resistance movements in Canada? This article introduces the …

This project investigates discursive and material constraints against and possibilities for
decolonial resistance and existence by rhetorically analyzing key features of the Idle No …

A focalizing debate within social movement theory considers the efficacy of violence versus
nonviolence in direct action. This is especially important to consider in a settlercolonial …

My dissertation examines writing that responds to and reimagines the genre of travel poetry
by Indigenous, diasporic, and settler women writers who reside in Canada to illuminate the …

Colonialism is ongoing in Canada and continues to affect Indigenous-state relations in a
number of political and social areas, including water governance. Few other studies link …