The enduring settler-colonial emergency: Indian Affairs and contemporary emergency management in Canada

Dafnos, Tia

doi:10.1080/2201473x.2018.1491157

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“…More recent policy interventions have continued the Canadian legacy of aggressive fiscal parsimony that Shiri Pasternak (2016) has termed ‘fiscal warfare’ – waged on Indigenous Nations and people. Tactics of fiscal warfare have ranged from emergency management (Dafnos, 2018), to accounting and accountability (Pasternak, 2016; Neu and Therrien, 2003) and fiscal retrenchment in relation to First Nations’ social welfare (Palmater, 2011). The use of transparency should be viewed as a constituent element of this strategy, the ultimate goal of which is privatization of reserve lands and the assimilation and elimination of First Nations.…”

Section: The First Nations Transparency Actmentioning

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From self-government to government of the self: Fiscal subjectivity, Indigenous governance and the politics of transparency

Willmott

2019

Critical Social Policy

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In 2013 the Canadian Parliament passed the First Nations Financial Transparency Act (FNFTA). Subject to immediate controversy, the law generated legal and political resistance from Indigenous leaders and scholars. The law requires First Nations governments to post audited consolidated financial statements and the salaries of chiefs and councillors online for public consumption. The article traces the use of transparency as a technology of government to examine how disclosure acts as an organizing mechanism of commensuration and moral scrutiny. The article then shows how transparency and disclosure was directed to rescale critique of the state away from the Canadian government, and toward First Nations governments. The article concludes by examining how bureaucrats envisioned how Indigenous peoples would use transparency and disclosure to reform their political conducts into that of a calculating taxpayer citizenship.

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Section: The First Nations Transparency Actmentioning

confidence: 99%

From self-government to government of the self: Fiscal subjectivity, Indigenous governance and the politics of transparency

Willmott

2019

Critical Social Policy

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“…They can be enacted at a relatively local scale, but also in relation to contexts characterised by uncertainty and complexity (Davidson et al 2020;Handmer and Dovers 2007). Further, emergency may enable grassroots action and contribute to the development of intimate solidarities (Anderson 2017;Bandt 2009;Honig 2014), but so too has it provided a basis for exclusion, securitisation and an excessive use or abuse of executive powers (Dafnos 2019;Derickson et al 2015;Kester and Sovacool 2017).…”

Section: Review: Emergency Climate and Claim-makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are important differences between claims of climate emergency made by activists and the state. There is a history and legacy of emergency used to consolidate the power of the state or other interests in the name of crisis, posing a substantial risk to democratic and human rights (Dafnos 2019; Honig 2009). The familiar argument of the “state of exception” encapsulates these concerns by referring to how exceptional circumstances can be harnessed by the state to establish and entrench power in a manner that suspends democratic politics (Agamben 2005; Honig 2009).…”

Section: Review: Emergency Climate and Claim‐makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Violence, exclusion, and dispossession thrive in such contexts under the erosion of human rights and the extension of politics of marginalisation and oppression, particularly for communities and bodies seen as “disposable” (Giroux 2006). This is particularly acute for Indigenous and marginalised communities who bear the brunt of emergency measures that further reinforce systems of oppression and inequality (Bargh and Hall 2019; Dafnos 2019; Whyte 2017).…”

Section: Review: Emergency Climate and Claim‐makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Emergent Spaces of Emergency Claims: Possibilities and Contestation in a National Climate Emergency Declaration

Cretney

Nissen

2022

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Climate emergency declarations have become a prominent mechanism within the environmental movement to emphasise the urgency of the climate crisis, with this activism prompting numerous declarations from governments. Embedded in these declarations are claims of emergency, which hold representations of how different actors make sense of the present political moment and imagine trajectories of change. We analyse the contested meanings of public emergency claims made by activists and the state in Aotearoa New Zealand’s national climate emergency declaration. Identifying three framings of emergency as an objective truth, an activating property, and a responsibility, our analysis suggests emergency declarations hold ambiguous potential for more radical action on climate change. While opening political space on what emergency means, we argue emergency claims hold risks of depoliticising climate politics and re‐embedding the neoliberal status quo. Emergency claims also contain tensions in imaginaries of transformation, suggesting the importance of contestation within climate emergency declarations.

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“…AJIG surveillance was part of a much larger, coordinated effort to criminalise Indigenous resistance 6 undertaken by a range of state actors that criminologists Andrew Crosby and Jeffrey Monaghan have described as a form of setter colonial policing aimed at delegitimizing Indigenous resistance to extractive projects (2019: 6) Relative to the tar sands this effort (perhaps most acutely demonstrated by (ongoing) efforts to police Indigenous opposition to the expansion of the TMX pipeline and Northern Gateway before it) 7 has served to actively (mis)construe harm: conflating Indigenous land defense with a national security threat and fixing Indigenous jurisdiction and lack of Indigenous consent in the crosshairs of national security policing (Dafnos, 2018: 12, 2019) and tar sands governance.…”

Section: Harm and The Futurity Of Settler Colonialismmentioning

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The colonialism of carbon capture and storage in Alberta's Tar Sands

Alexander

Stanley

2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This essay considers carbon capture and storage (CCS) in relation to struggles over value and territorial jurisdiction in the Alberta Tar Sands. Critical engagements with CCS have pointed to the legitimising function of the technology and highlight its role normalising extraction in the tar sands. We suggest that neither the significance of CCS nor the legitimation function it performs can be fully understood absent an analysis of settler colonialism. CCS we argue is a colonial flanking mechanism directly centred on the governance of harm that construes harm in ways that reproduce settler colonial entitlements to Indigenous lands, bodies and ecosystems and helps to consolidate state jurisdiction and power in the tar sands. This construal of harm also productively intersects other colonial strategies of harm reduction relative to the tar sands, including the criminalisation of Indigenous jurisdiction, and is part of a broader relational context that prioritises settler colonial futurity.

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The enduring settler-colonial emergency: Indian Affairs and contemporary emergency management in Canada

Cited by 8 publications

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From self-government to government of the self: Fiscal subjectivity, Indigenous governance and the politics of transparency

From self-government to government of the self: Fiscal subjectivity, Indigenous governance and the politics of transparency

Emergent Spaces of Emergency Claims: Possibilities and Contestation in a National Climate Emergency Declaration

The colonialism of carbon capture and storage in Alberta's Tar Sands

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