Dispossession politics: mapping the contours of reconciliatory colonialism in Canada through industry-funded think tanks

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dc.contributor.authorYunker, Zoë
dc.contributor.supervisorCarroll, William K.
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-03T23:22:56Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019-05-03
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Sociologyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractAmidst recent mobilizations of Indigenous land-based resistance and the hypocrisy inherent in the state’s implementation of UNDRIP they render visible, resource-extractive corporate capital is uniquely invested in the state’s continued ability to dispossess land from Indigenous peoples. This paper suggests that growing emphasis on Indigenous-state relations within industry-funded think tanks offers corporate capital an unprecedented avenue to participate in the evolution of federal policy discourse on state-Indigenous reconciliation. It draws on a content analysis of policy materials from four of these institutions ranging from far-right groups such as the Fraser Institute to the more moderate Institute on Governance, contextualizing findings in recent and substantive shifts in federal policy development in this area. Findings suggest that the groups’ relative diversity is underscored by common discursive themes infused by neoliberal governing rationalities that invoke a diffuse, flexible and agile policy landscape that erases the question of land—and Indigenous jurisdiction over land—which many Indigenous peoples identify as critical to meaningful reconciliation efforts.en_US
dc.description.embargo2020-04-29
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/10854
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectIndigenous politicsen_US
dc.subjectResource developmenten_US
dc.subjectThink tanksen_US
dc.subjectNeoliberalismen_US
dc.subjectAboriginal economic developmenten_US
dc.subjectState-Indigenous policyen_US
dc.titleDispossession politics: mapping the contours of reconciliatory colonialism in Canada through industry-funded think tanksen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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