The
“Interacting with the State” panels emphasize different legal regimes which
currently define relationships between indigenous people’s and the state. Our
final episode of the series features discussions on the duty to Consult, Metis
land claims, and legal definitions of territory and sovereignty.
Featuring:
Avigail Eisenberg (University of
Victoria) “Consultation, Consent, and Resistance”Janique Dubois (University of Ottawa)
“To What End? Negotiating Metis Land Rights in Manitoba”Mark Walters (Queen’s University) “Reconciling
Legal Ideas about Territory and Sovereignty in Canada”
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Land Restitution as Reconciliation
This
episode features a rich discussion of the movements toward
reconciliation which will be necessary in order to fruitfully navigate these
ongoing tensions around land and land rights.
Featuring:
Esme Murdock (San Diego State
University) “Speaking Land, Speaking Ourselves”Dimitri Panagos (Memorial University
of Newfoundland) “Reconciliation, Duties and Distributive Justice”Avery Kolers (University of
Louisville) “Territorial Loss and Reconciliation” , presented by Burke Hendrix
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Non-Indigenous Understandings of Land
This
episode’s discussion focuses on largely Western ideas regarding the ontology of
land and the relationships between people, the state, and the land, offering a
critical perspective on the dominant and colonial approaches to land which have
historically guided our understandings of land and land rights.
Featuring:
Alejandra Mancilla (University of
Oslo) “A Continent of and for Whiteness? "White" Colonialism and the
1959 Antarctic Treaty” Kerstin Reibold (UiT: Arctic
University of Norway) “The Cultural and Historical Perspective of Welfare
Egalitarianism”Margaret Moore (Queen’s University) “Indigenous
Land Rights and State Territorial Rights”
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Interacting with the State, Part I
The
“Interacting with the State” panels emphasize different legal regimes which
currently define relationships between indigenous people’s and the state. Part
1 features presentations on Mining Development and Modern Treaty-making.
Featuring:
Julia Gilpin and Karine Vanthuyne (University
of Ottawa) “Reconciling the Indigenous Right to Self-determination with Mining
Development”Veldon Coburn (Carleton University) “Lessons
from the Algonquin Modern Treaty”Timothy Goodwin (Victorian Bar) – “Reconciliation
and Land Rights in Australia: A Legal Perspective”
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Changing the Paradigm
This
episode features a set of three paper presentations. The panel examines different
understandings of our relationships with the land and particularly highlights those
traditional relationships which are challenging the western and colonial
interpretations of relationships to the land.
Featuring:
Jeff Corntassel (University of
Victoria) “How will the Land Recognize You? Regenerating Indigenous
Relationships Amidst Reconciliation Discourses” Burke Hendrix (University of Oregon)
“Land as a Matrix for Responsibilities of Reciprocity”Cindy Holder (University of Victoria)
“Indigenous Peoples’ Human Right to Land”
About Indigenous Land Rights and Reconciliation Podcast
Questions of land rights are at the root of most current conflicts between indigenous peoples and the wider state. Competing conceptions of the land and authority over the land intersect with conflicts around resource extraction, the terms of consultation and consent, and the political status of indigenous peoples. Without resolving the conflicts around land in a fair and collaborative manner, real reconciliation will be difficult to achieve.
This podcast presents a series of six live panel presentations delivered at the Indigenous Land Rights and Reconciliation workshop at Queen’s University in September of 2019. The series theorizes the justifications for land rights from indigenous perspectives and investigates how these understandings challenge and enrich theories in the Western tradition. The discussion also confronts the implications of these understandings for the political and legal practice.
The Indigenous Land Rights and Reconciliation project sought to meet three key objectives: to provide an open platform for indigenous people to voice their views on land, self-governance, and relationships; to explore ways of indigenizing political theory and method; and to promote respectful and reciprocal collaboration between indigenous and non-indigenous scholars.
We encourage you to visit our website at www.queensu.ca/csdd/landrights to follow the project and its future efforts.
Thank-you to our Sponsors and Supporters
Government of Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Forskningsradet: The Research Council of Norway
Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University
Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity, Queen’s University
Globalizing Minority Rights, UiT: The Arctic University of Norway
CFRC Kingston
The Louis Riel Reel is performed and provided by Traditional Métis Fiddler, Patti Kusturok https://www.pattikusturok.com/
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