{"product_id":"9780228025498-settler-colonial-sovereignty","title":"Settler Colonial Sovereignty","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVisions of Improvement and Indigenous Erasure\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSettler Colonial Sovereignty\u003c\/em\u003e examines what processes and understandings make Crown sovereignty seem natural and inevitable, particularly with respect to Indigenous Peoples who hold their own notions of political authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnowledge production in the Anglosphere depends on the erasure of non-Western ways of knowing – especially ways of knowing oneself, the lands and waters, and the relationships between these entities. In settler colonial states those in power seldom question this erasure, despite the ongoing presence and power of Indigenous nations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking work, Liam Midzain-Gobin illuminates how the logic of improvement animates this epistemological ignorance, both historically and currently. By creating a new world based on settler views, the settler state augments its own power. This way of thinking drives government actions and even influences how settlers and the state imagine what is possible. Examining knowledge production through governance processes, \u003cem\u003eSettler Colonial Sovereignty\u003c\/em\u003e studies three policy areas: First Nations reserve policy, land and resource monitoring frameworks, and the Indigenous Peoples Survey. Throughout, Midzain-Gobin shows how state sovereignty is never stable but continually being reaffirmed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInspired by the interaction of Indigenous knowledge with cosmological assumptions to provide different understandings of our place in the world, \u003cem\u003eSettler Colonial Sovereignty\u003c\/em\u003e imagines how we might move past improvement as a basis for Indigenous-settler relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56977982488950,"sku":"9780228025498","price":26.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_39377860_6a9b3171-dc0f-4c3a-b12c-2aa36b6d378c.jpg?v=1767864375","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780228025498-settler-colonial-sovereignty","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}