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Kobayashi, Audrey; Brooks, Meghan; Leeuw, Sarah de; Lewis, Nathaniel M.; Nolin, Catherine; Sutherland, Cheryl A.

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“…Critical human geographers, particularly feminist and anti-racist geographers, have a role to play in this process, especially in a time when we are increasingly asking ourselves about social justice and activism as an expressly geographic project (e.g., Kobayashi et al 2014).…”

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Writing as righting: Truth and reconciliation, poetics, and new geo‐graphing in colonial Canada

Leeuw

2017

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission calls for new actions to address Canada's colonial history and colonial present; geographers are implicated in this call.Undertaking logical, linear, or even coherent work about colonial violence risks reproducing it by trying to make sense of and bring closure to something that should, for settler Canadians, remain raw and unsettled.Poetry offers a way of writing about colonial violence by opening new "language-spaces," new geo-graphing possibilities, that refuse existing narratives about colonialism.This paper is anchored in two recent and concurrent openings, openings that offer opportunities for geographers to consider new modes of engaging colonial violence. The first opening is the release, in Canada, of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report and calls to action. By demanding new types of settler-subject attention to Indigenous peoples and places, it opens new spaces for extending reflection about anti-Indigenous racism and colonial violence in Canadian consciousness. The second opening is geography's growing uptake of creative and humanities-informed theories and practices. These manifest in new knowledges and practices with consequent possibilities for addressing colonial violence. I consider these two openings first by proposing changes to conversations about settler-normalized violences lived by Indigenous peoples, and, second by engaging poets working to radically re/configure language and written expression. Specifically, the paper ends with a call for geographers-particularly non-Indigenous settler geographersto rethink ways (and forms) by which we produce knowledge, especially about colonialism and Indigenous geographies and especially in and through writing practices. The paper is experimental in form, meant to disrupt easy uptake or digestion of ideas that must remain-for settler subjects-fundamentally ragged, upsetting, and always beyond conclusion, coherence, or closure.

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Writing as righting: Truth and reconciliation, poetics, and new geo‐graphing in colonial Canada

Leeuw

2017

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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“…My position as a social geographer and political activist is supported by feminist scholarship that challenges conventional positivist notions of objectivity and calls for a more reflexive, positioned approach to research that is attentive to issues of power, ethics, representation and readership in the construction of knowledge (England 1994;Kobayashi et al 2014;Madge 2016). In recognizing the 'researcher as instrument,' that is, an embodied knower complicit in the production of knowledge, I can better account for the partial and situated nature of truth (Canella & Lincoln 2009;Nast 1994).…”

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“…As Tuhiwai Smith (1999, 229) writes, we cannot treat critique and resistance "as if they have universal characteristics that are independent of history, context and agency." Similarly, a feminist approach demands attention to the ways in which power imbalances affect peoples in real and material ways (Kobayashi et al 2014). The UNBC Geography & Rights Action field school to Guatemala was important to documenting the on-the-ground realities of development related to Canadian mining operations on Indigenous and campesino lands.…”

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“…Using the geographical concepts of spatiality, scale, power, discourse and representation, I analyze the ways in which the Canadian and Guatemalan states, MNCs and their investors produce forms of domination, exclusion and erasure to reinforce processes of imperialism through specific power structures and relations (Gordon & Webber 2016). Conversely, I describe resistance to these processes of marginalization to highlight the dynamics of natural resource governance at the local, national and transnational scales (Kobayashi et al 2014).…”

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Exporting Canada's extractives approach to development: The nexus of law, violence and development in the case of Tahoe Resources Inc. in Guatemala

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Drawing on theories of critical legal geography and critical development studies, this thesis examines how law shapes processes of repression and resistance in conflicts over resource extraction. Through the lens of Canadian mining in Guatemala and the specific case of Tahoe Resources' El Escobal Mine, I reflect on how law impacts the production, control, and remaking of space and place. A discourse analysis of documents obtained via Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) requests, as well as an analysis of fieldwork notes and semistructured interviews conducted in Guatemala and Canada between May and September 2018, demonstrate that a lack of government oversight and accountability reinforces a status quo of impunity for human rights abuses related to Canada's extractive sector. While home state litigation may enforce a measure of accountability for parent companies in their operations abroad, the ideological structures enabling mining corporations to operate with ease across borders remain intact. iii "Take these messages and report them to the countries that invest in and profit from this mine."

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Advocacy

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Writing as righting: Truth and reconciliation, poetics, and new geo‐graphing in colonial Canada

Writing as righting: Truth and reconciliation, poetics, and new geo‐graphing in colonial Canada

Exporting Canada's extractives approach to development: The nexus of law, violence and development in the case of Tahoe Resources Inc. in Guatemala

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