Barker, A.J. orcid.org/0000-0003-3577-5079 (2024) Carcerality and the elimination of Indigenous people in Canada. Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes, 69 (1). e12962. ISSN 0008-3658
Abstract
Drawing from the logic of carcerality, and refined through theories of settler colonialism, I argue in this paper the following. First, carcerality is not just a tactic of settler colonization in Canada for bodily controlling populations, but a key feature of settler colonial claims to land and territory; imposing carceral spaces on Indigenous people is a fundamental necessity for the expectations and ambitions of settler colonization, and as settler colonization in Canada is ongoing, the expansion of these carceral spaces likewise continues. Second, carceral theory can be used to analyze how Indigenous people are made to “disappear” from settler‐dominated spaces, and expose the interlocking roles of state power and social prejudice in these “eliminations.” As all kinds of frontier spaces—urban, rural, and otherwise—are assimilated into the settler colonial assemblage, Indigenous people are forced into mobility that itself is both carceral and eliminatory. Understanding carcerality as something pervasive in settler society, and not just limited to the criminal justice system, changes how we must approach decolonization.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Canadian Association of Geographers / l'Association canadienne des géographes. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | assemblage; Canada; carceral space; settler colonialism |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Geography and Planning |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2024 12:27 |
Last Modified: | 12 Mar 2025 17:07 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cag.12962 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/cag.12962 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:220053 |