POLI463

Violence to Indigenous Lands and Bodies

Through an analysis of US and Canadian law and policy, examines how Indigenous lands and bodies have been constructed as terra nullius, wastelands and criminal spaces in order to make state claims over Indigenous lands and body legal. Examines how settler colonial logics operate to affirm state political authority that plays out on Indigenous bodies and lands in often devastating and harmful ways.

Lecture: 3h

Lab: 0h

Tutorial: 0h

Credits: 1.5