Description: Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing : Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art, Hardcover by Mamers, Danielle Taschereau, ISBN 1531505198, ISBN-13 9781531505196, Brand New, Free shipping in the US An innovative analysis of Indigenous strategies for overcoming the settler state. How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state’s capacity to see? What kinds of worlds do documents help create? Further, how might such documentary practices and settler colonial ways of seeing be refused? Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing investigates how the Canadian state has used documents, lists, and databases to generate, make visible—and invisible—Indigenous identity. With an archive of legislative documents, registration forms, identity cards, and reports, Danielle Taschereau Mamers traces the political and media history of Indian status in Canada, demonstrating how paperwork has been used by the state to materialize identity categories in the service of colonial governance. Her analysis of bureaucratic artifacts is led by the interventions of Indigenous artists, including Robert Houle, Nadia Myre, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, and Rebecca Belmore. Bringing together media theories of documentation and the strategies of these artists, Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing develops a method for identifying how bureaucratic documents mediate power relations as well as how those relations may be disobeyed and re-imagined. By integrating art-led inquiry with media theory and settler colonial studies approaches, Taschereau Mamers offers a political and media history of the documents that have reproduced Indian status. More importantly, she provides us with an innovative guide for using art as a method of theorizing decolonial political relations. This is a crucial book for any reader interested in the intersection of state archives, settler colonial studies, and visual culture in the context of Canada’s complex and violent relationship with Indigenous peoples.
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Book Title: Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing : Documentation, Administration,
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Name: Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing : Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Library & Information Science / School Media, Criticism & Theory, Indigenous Studies
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.1 Oz
Subject Area: Art, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
Author: Danielle Taschereau Mamers
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
