Settler colonial urbanism: notes from Minneapolis and the life of Thomas Barlow Walker

Hugill, David

doi:10.1080/2201473x.2015.1061968

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“…Some works explore the conditions for and experiences of Indigenous urban residents. Scholars have articulated how settler colonial structures shaped the development of post-war Minneapolis (Hugill 2021), how gentrification pressures harm Indigenous residents in downtown Vancouver BC (Blomley 2004), and the dynamics of housing and property for Indigenous people in Townsville, Australia (Blatman-Thomas 2019). Gentrification scholarship, in particular, has a longer history with colonialism.…”

Section: Pioneers and Frontiers: Settler Colonialism In Urban Scholar...mentioning

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Race, Property, and Erasure in the Rust Belt

Herbert

Brown

2023

Du Bois Rev.

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This article builds on settler and domestic colonial histories and theories to advance our understanding of urban changes in segregated, disinvested, U.S. Rust Belt cities. While many major cities have rebounded in population and experienced gentrification since the mid-twentieth century, many Rust Belt cities have continued to decline. The resulting conditions call for new theories to describe their changes, trajectories, and the impacts for majority poor Black populations. We construct a Binocular Colonial Lens: an analytic framework that superimposes shared conceptual descriptions and theoretical explanations of settler and domestic colonialisms. With this lens, we can elucidate the practices of erasure that are deployed throughout colonized communities and focus them on phenomena associated with urban decline and revitalization. While some urban scholarship has used metaphors and language of settler colonialism to describe gentrification, most of these works at best reflect the salience of settler ideology, and at worst reinforce Indigenous erasure. Foregrounding shared conditions of colonization and conquest in the United States, we train this Binocular Colonial Lens on Detroit, which reveals myriad urban processes like ghettoization, urban renewal, suburbanization, and gentrification as ongoing colonization, wherein domestically colonized populations are subject to numerous forms of erasure at the behest of the settler state and toward the advancement of settler society. This lens advances urban theory by expanding the depth of our analyses of urban changes, and scaffolds connections with other axes of racialized inequality by revealing shared tools of erasure operative in, for example, mass incarceration and environmental injustices.

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Section: Pioneers and Frontiers: Settler Colonialism In Urban Scholar...mentioning

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Race, Property, and Erasure in the Rust Belt

Herbert

Brown

2023

Du Bois Rev.

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“…In settler states like Canada, the United States, and Australia, urban genesis stories are used to create the sense of a distinct break between a locale’s “pre‐history” and a “formative” period in which settlers actively construct modern metropolises (Dorries et al. 2019; Hugill 2016; Moreton‐Robinson 2015; Toews 2018). In most urban genesis stories, the early moments of intercultural negotiation are “the last time that we encounter Indigenous peoples as significant players in the life of the city” (Hugill 2016:266).…”

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“…2019; Hugill 2016; Moreton‐Robinson 2015; Toews 2018). In most urban genesis stories, the early moments of intercultural negotiation are “the last time that we encounter Indigenous peoples as significant players in the life of the city” (Hugill 2016:266). This aligns with stories about Toronto’s origins.…”

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The Humber is a Haunting: Settler Deathscapes, Indigenous Spectres, and the Memorialisation of a Canadian Heritage River

Fortier¹

2021

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This paper argues that state‐sponsored memorialisation is a critical enterprise in creating and maintaining a national cultural identity that softens or erases the ongoing process of death‐making and dispossession wrought by settlers on the land and Indigenous peoples. Drawing on the work of Toronto‐based Cree scholar Karyn Recollet, I further argue that this death‐making is not a given. Indigenous peoples assert their presence and relationships to the Humber River and its adjacent lifeforces alongside and in opposition to official memorialising projects. The 20th anniversary of the Humber River’s designation as a Canada Heritage River in 2019, the first in the era of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, begs the question as to the role memorial and commemoration ceremonies play in the coalescence of a particular settler colonial story/myth that stabilises geographies as “memorial spaces” while simultaneously narrating Indigenous peoples through erasure, assimilation, and as historical ghosts.

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“…Exemplary of this thinking, for example, is Frederick Turner's () late 19th century view that the Euro–American conquest of Western North America constituted both a literal and figurative turning‐of‐the‐back on Europe. Connectedly, interpretations of city building in settler colonies have often been shrouded in a mantle of colonial amnesia (Barman, ; Mays, ; Vicenti Carpio, ); in both official histories and boosterist accounts, settler‐colonial urban environments are routinely (if dubiously) treated as sites of settler creation in “wasted” or “virgin” landscapes, great hubs of commerce, and exchange brought to life by the brilliance and ingenuity of rugged and ambitious arrivistes rather than spaces of conquest, eviction, and resettlement (Hugill, ). In settler‐colonial situations, such disavowals are commonplace and often function as an effective means of denying the very existence and persistence of Indigenous presences and claims.…”

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What is a settler‐colonial city?

Hugill

2017

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What is a “settler‐colonial city” and how does it differ from other forms of imperial urban spatial organization? This article seeks to answer these questions by attempting to urbanize recent insights in settler‐colonial theory. It begins by considering well‐established theorizations of the “colonial city”—particularly those developed by geographers and urbanists in the 1970s and 1980s—in order to assess their suitability for analyses of contemporary settler‐colonial milieu. Building on this discussion, the paper asks if and how the insights of settler‐colonial theory offer new opportunities to renovate earlier theorizations in ways that are more explicitly relevant to making sense of the urban process in North America and other societies where colonists have “come to stay” and no formal process of decolonization has unfolded.

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Settler colonial urbanism: notes from Minneapolis and the life of Thomas Barlow Walker

Cited by 13 publications

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Race, Property, and Erasure in the Rust Belt

Race, Property, and Erasure in the Rust Belt

The Humber is a Haunting: Settler Deathscapes, Indigenous Spectres, and the Memorialisation of a Canadian Heritage River

What is a settler‐colonial city?

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