Abstract
Opening with the definitive (and ultimately central) assertion that “[cities] are places where Indigenous peoples have continually resisted and challenged the normalizations of settler colonial violence” (p. 1), Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West is a well-woven collection of essays, each of which pulls at the frayed edges of colonial narratives that continually dress and address the “city” as a distinctly settler space.
Highlights
The second section, “Land and Politics,” opens with a poignant quotation from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that reminds the reader that all Canadian cities are on Indigenous lands; this is an anchoring point for a grouping of essays that challenges the idea that cities like Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Missoula are free, or somehow less guilty, of settler-colonial territorial politics
The third section of the collection, “Policing and Social Control,” draws together essays that touch on the violent involvement of state institutions in the maintenance of settlercolonialism and the pervasive nature of rhetorics of control, deficiency, and criminality which affect the lives of Indigenous peoples on the Prairies
Both concepts peppered throughout the collection, come to a particular focus
Summary
The second section, “Land and Politics,” opens with a poignant quotation from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that reminds the reader that all Canadian cities are on Indigenous lands; this is an anchoring point for a grouping of essays that challenges the idea that cities like Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Missoula are free, or somehow less guilty, of settler-colonial territorial politics.
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