Original and Ongoing Dispossessions
Settler Capitalism and Indigenous Resistance in British Columbia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4301171 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Justin Paulson (0000-0002-6722-4688, Institute of Political Economy and Department of Sociology & Anthropology Carleton University Ottawa Ontario Canada), Julie Tomiak (School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies Carleton University Ottawa Ontario Canada) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 154-169 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/johs.12365 |
| OpenAlex | W4220875509 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This paper draws on archival research and theoretical work to articulate the specific histories, processes, and structures of primitive accumulation in British Columbia. Such processes of accumulation appear differently here than in the comparably more well-theorized contexts of imperial colonialisms. As we highlight the agents and infrastructures of dispossession, our research also aims to foreground the importance of agents and infrastructures of resistance. Different dispossessions generate different antagonisms, and we argue that Indigenous subjects are situated antagonistically to capital not only as laborers partially or wholly subsumed into capitalist social relations, but as Indigenous peoples as such, whose Indigeneity has been 'in the way' of development from the 1850s onward. Private property requires before all else the deterritorialization of those whose relations with the land do not revolve around its commodification. Violence against Indigenous nations, and especially Indigenous women, is not incidental to capitalist development but is a prerequisite to capitalist subsumption in the settler-colonial context. In requiring the death of either Indigeneity or the person, capital constitutes Indigenous struggle as an antagonist, interrupting both the subsumption of labor and the circulation of capital (even as such struggles may also self-constitute themselves in a variety of ways
Archaeology · Biology · Capital (architecture · Capitalism · Colonialism · Commodification · Context (archaeology · Economics · Economy · Environmental ethics · Indigenous · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Situated · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Mining and Resource Management · Ecology · Gender Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |