期刊
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE
卷 40, 期 3, 页码 413-431出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/02637758221083312
关键词
Settler colonial urbanism; property; racism; Indigenous jurisdiction; Indigenous land reclamation; municipal colonialism
资金
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship
- Canada Research Chair in Reconciling Relations or Health, Environments, and Communities
This study examines how property, race, and jurisdiction intersect to protect white possession of urban land in Canada's national capital. Through government records, interviews, and collaboration with land defenders, the study demonstrates the fragmentation of jurisdictional power and the challenges faced in contesting ongoing dispossession as a singular process.
Critiques of settler colonial urbanism have paid close attention to the political work that property and racism do in materializing settler colonial cities and naturalizing settler control over urban land and resources. We contribute to these debates by examining how the co-production of property and race intersects with jurisdiction to secure white possession against the demands of an urban Indigenous land reclamation in Canada's national capital. Drawing on an analysis of government records obtained using Access to Information and Privacy requests, key informant interviews, and a three-year engagement with land defenders and allies, we demonstrate how property and jurisdiction carved the contested space into distinct spheres of settler governing authority. The need to confront the singularity of each governing authority on its own terms made it impossible to directly contest ongoing dispossession as a singular process involving the entire site. Instead, organizers and activists were forced to fight for separate pieces of land, dividing limited time, energy, and resources across multiple facets of a settler colonial structure of invasion. We argue that this process of jurisdictional fragmentation, which organized the co-production of property and race in defence of white possession, can be productively understood as a process of fortification.
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