Dr. Phil Henderson, Adjunct Research Professor in the School of Canadian Studies, has recently published an article in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal��on “With Allies Like These . . . : Promises and Pitfalls in the Anticolonial Theories of “Ally Toolkits”.��Available to read

Graham Fraser, former commissioner official languages of Canada, writes:

A Canadian studies professor at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University, Trépanier notes how the historical record tends to ignore the political engagement of nineteenth-century First Nations: “Figuring among the great excluded of the Canadian Confederation in 1867, Indigenous people paid a price for the profoundly racist policies introduced by Confederation. Nevertheless, they were not passive witnesses.” In describing lengthy debates and proposals before and after the British North America Act of 1867, she demonstrates how tribal leaders had as sophisticated an understanding of the stakes involved as did the politicians in the Maritimes: “In both cases, emancipation and Confederation, it was a question of choosing citizenship in a new country and concluding a pact with a political community larger than any of them could have imagined until then.”

��edited by��Jeremy Wildeman and M. Muhannad Ayyash��is on the Alberta Book Publishing Awards Scholarly & Academic Book of the Year shortlist!

Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine explores Canada-Palestine relations through a settler colonial lens. The authors argue that there are direct parallels between Canada’s settler colonial project and its support for the Israeli settler colonial dispossession of Palestinians. Chapters reflect on community politics and activism, migration, orientalism, and critical race theory. Among its unique contributions, the volume provides a fresh look at Canada’s foreign policy as informed and shaped by its own history of settler colonialism. The collection also illuminates the breadth and depth of Palestinian life in Canada. Throughout, the chapters are connected by common themes of settler colonial destruction, dispossession, segregation, and otherness, as well as accounts of people challenging those processes in search of a better and fairer world. The book will be of interest to scholars in Indigenous Studies, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Canadian Studies, Palestine Studies, and beyond. Contributors: Samer Abdelnour, Nadia Abu-Zahra, Rachad Antonius, Lina Assi, M. Muhannad Ayyash, Peige Desjarlais, Randa Farah, Azeezah Kanji, Maurice Jr. Labelle, Nadia Naser-Najjab, Emily Regan Wills, Mira Sucharov, Jeremy Wildeman. Foreword by Veldon Coburn.

Anne’s book is now in the .

The launch will be on Friday Feb 16 in a r at 5:30 p.m.

Nicolas Pelletier (Radio Canada) will “interview” her on the spot for a “causerie” and will present the book.

Her publication was also featured in

She will be at the February 22 – 25.��

The John-Glassco Prize was established in 1982 to “…recognize the excellence and talent of an emerging literary translator.”

Iaffairs is funded through a SSHRC Grant and supported by �Ӱ�ԭ�� University. Iaffairs ��is ��a platform for discussion and debate on policy topics of�� interest ��to all Canadians.

To hear Professor Henderson and Professor Giroux discuss the challenges of presenting to an English-speaking audience, the book’s critique of the coloniality of the contemporary Québécois political imaginary, listen to this made by Martha Attridge Bufton, Interdisciplinary Studies Librarian.

Professor Henderson also has an essay appearing in the new collection, Land/Relations: Possibilities of Justice in Canadian Literatures, edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Larissa Lai (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2023). The essay, “Neoliberal Gothic, Settler Social Imaginaries, and the Case for Decolonization on Two Fronts” tracks the generic constraints on public discourse about Residential Schools as well as the production of knowledge about Indigenous communities according to a binary scheme of damage and resilience.

Event Details:�� Thursday Dec 8�� �� ��4:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Event Description

CSREA’s New Book Talks highlight new and notable works studying race, ethnicity, and indigeneity. They facilitate thought-provoking and critical engagement with emerging scholarship.

The latest publication from Gregory Smithers, Reclaiming Two-Spirits, decolonizes the history of gender and sexuality in Native North America, while honoring the generations of Indigenous people who had the foresight to take essential aspects of their cultural life and spiritual beliefs underground in order to save them. Smithers is��Professor of American History, Virginia Commonwealth University. The conversation will be moderated by��Andrés López,��Assistant Professor of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University.

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