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LPG FNIM Highlights Group Catalogue (Updated) 2020

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ONIX 3.0
Semaphore 14
Unsettling the Commons
Social Movements Against, Within, and Beyond Settler Colonialism
By (author): Craig Fortier
Craig Fortier

Imprint:

ARP Books

ISBN:

9781894037976

Product Form:

Paperback

Form detail:

Trade
Paperback , Trade
English

Audience:

General Trade
Dec 31, 2017
$14.95 CAD
Active

Dimensions:

7in x 5 x 0.3 in | 140 gr

Page Count:

100 pages
ARP Books
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Social discrimination and social justice
North America
  • Description
  • Author Bio
  • Reviews
Drawing on interviews with 51 anti-authoritarian organizers to investigates what it means to struggle for "the commons" within a settler colonial context, Unsettling the Commons interrogates a very important debatethat took place within Occupy camps and is taking place in a multitude of movements in North America around what it means to claim "the commons" on stolen land. Travelling back in history to show the ways in which radical left movements have often either erased or come into clear conflict with Indigenous practices of sovereignty and self-determination--all in the name of the "struggle for the commons", the book argues that there are multiple commons or conceptualizations of how land, relationships, and resources are shared, produced, consumed, and distributed in any given society. As opposed to the liberal politics of recognition, a political practice of unsettling and a recognition of the incommensurability of political goals that claim access to space/territory on stolen land is put forward as a more desirable way forward.

Craig Fortier is an Assistant Professor in Social Development Studies at Renison University College, an affiliated college of the University of Waterloo. He holds a PhD in Sociology from York University. Craig has participated in migrant justice and anti-capitalist movements and in support of Indigenous sovereignty for over a decade in Toronto (Three Fires Confederacy, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wyandot territories). He is also the centre-fielder for the radical recreational softball team the Uncertainty and the author of the cat blog Diaries of a Cat Named Virtute.

This honest, thoughtful, and constructive text needs to be read and digested by every North American social justice organizer. Craig Fortier captures the contradictions of calling for the Commons in a settler-colonial society. - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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