VIRTUAL EVENT: Settler Colonialisms and Indigeneity — Intro: What is Settler Colonialism?
21 October 2020, 5:00 pm–6:00 pm
We are delighted to invite you to the first meeting of the Settler Colonialisms and Indigeneity Reading Group and Writing Workshop Series of the academic year 2020/2021.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- UCL staff | UCL students
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Christy Wensley, Sarah Collier and Nicholas Spenglersarah.collier.19@ucl.ac.uk, n.spengler@ucl.ac.uk
How can we unpack the relationship between African, Asian and Indigenous American subject positions?
The answer, according to Iyko Day, lies in land and labour. Through a reading of the introduction of Iyko Day’s Alien Capital, this reading group introduces questions of settler colonialism, Indigeneity and ‘alien’ labour as anchored in projects of capitalist expansion.
Please find further information here
Image: Detail from cover of Alien Capital. Cover art: Tommy Ting, Workers Posing as Workers (Chinese Workers for the Great Northern Railway), 2013, inkjet print, recycled wood, 167x 298 cm. Duke University Press, 2016