Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing
Cultural Studies Salon Seminar with Dr. Danielle Taschereau Mamers
Event Details
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Thursday, November 28, 2024
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Traill College
Building: Wallis Hall
Room: 102
Cost: Free
How are documents good for thinking about settler colonial policies? And how can art help us look at documents and the policies they bring into being? For many decades, Canadian state agents have used paperwork to materialize the category of Indian status. From the text of the Indian Act to registration forms, status cards, and reports, administrative documents have been tools that the state has used to make visible—and invisible—Indigenous peoples. In practices of looking back at law, Indigenous artists and activists have been guides to thinking disobediently with administrative archives. This talk will present decolonial and feminist artistic strategies as guides for analyzing settler bureaucratic practice while creating decolonial futures.
Danielle Taschereau Mamers is a media theorist turned tiny bureaucrat turned idea artist and facilitator. She’s held a handful of postdocs and has a PhD in Media Studies. Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing is her first book and she’s published a dozen articles and some non-academic essays. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two snails (both named Sylvia).