The (De)Colonial Struggle
DEVS 364
300-Level Courses
3 Units
In-person
3
one-way Exclusions
Lecture and private study
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Course Description
Challenges students to examine how colonialism/decolonization shapes settler states and how understandings of indigeneity and sovereignty have been impacted by the relationships between the colonizer and the colonized. Addresses how both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples can work towards decolonization through 'unlearning' and re-presencing.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe how settler colonial realities shape current relations between the State and Indigenous Peoples and the role of decolonization in redefining these relations.
- Critically reflect on positionality and its alignment with one's roles and responsibilities in the struggle to decolonize.
- Examine how colonization has shaped the histories and ongoing lived realities of specific groups of individuals including Indigenous women and 2SLGTBQIA+ Peoples.
- Analyze how colonial ideology constructs the land and water, and how decolonial theories/practices aim to restore and privilege Indigenous concepts and relationships with the physical world and prioritize land and water as fundamental to all issues, personal histories, and ontologies.
- Examine how Indigenous and settler peoples work collaboratively to resist settler colonialism to move beyond it towards a different reality that centers balanced, respectful, and healthy ways of being.
- Discuss how Indigenous art intersects with Indigenous research and activism in ways that support Indigenous agency.