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Conferences by Peter Kulchyski
In the 100 th anniversary year of the Russian Revolutions, which inaugurated the series of revolu... more In the 100 th anniversary year of the Russian Revolutions, which inaugurated the series of revolutions that marked and defined the twentieth century, our conference focuses on the theme of revolutions. We want to speak to the widespread and widely varying causes, contexts, conditions and consequences of modern revolutions. There are many types, of course, but we are primarily interested in the often-spectacular political, social or economic events that confront particular institutional, social and ideological regimes and the unfolding consequences and actions in the days and years that follow. The revolts of colonized, enslaved and indigenous peoples from Tyrone, Toussaint, Tupac and Tecumseh, through the revolutions which defined the West like the English and the French to today's Bolivarian, Arab Spring, and colour
Papers by Peter Kulchyski
Canadian theatre review, 2023
University of Manitoba Press eBooks, Sep 30, 2005
University of Manitoba Press eBooks, Mar 15, 2018
Routledge eBooks, Jun 18, 2021
This article argues that bush people deserve greater attention in revolutionary thought and actio... more This article argues that bush people deserve greater attention in revolutionary thought and action, both for the strategic value of their struggles against extraction at capital's periphery and the emancipatory social values they continue to embody. But bush struggles cannot be borrowed for other purposes: the agenda of bush people for respect and cultural survival must respected in its own right. Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But perhaps it is quite different. Perhaps revolutions are what happens when the humanity travelling in this train snatches at the emergency brake' .-Walter Benjamin 1 Search for the emancipatory subject In the social ferment that characterised the 1960s, mobilisations led by colonised subjects, students, African Americans and feminists led a variety of left thinkers to reimagine the place of the working class as a revolutionary vanguard. The thinking was that some non-workingclass element of the population might be the 'real' revolutionary or emancipatory subject of history. This mode of thought is not so distant from the present as might be instinctively presumed: witness the attention, for example, of queer theory to the degree to which transgender, homo-social or non-gendered 'normative' socialities imply a radical, emancipated or emancipatory subject position and are therefore the latest carriers of the torch of revolution, albeit a revolution less interested in state power. Indigenous peoples have also been briefly bathed in the light of this hope; from the actions of the American Indian Movement in the earlier period of ferment to the more recent intensification of struggle in the current historical conjunction at Standing Rock, there have been usually short-lived hopes of an Indigenous-led structural confrontation with capitalism or at least the capitalist state. This search for an emancipatory subject continues to inflect social thinking. There is a fashion in which many thinkers, when asked about the relevance of their particular social topic, explain in a lucid manner that the question they are studying is the fulcrum, the key, the absolutely essential missing strategic theoretical insight that will unlock the gates of ARTICLE HISTORY
... Where it serves our purpose, we make reference to territories that are part of the migration ... more ... Where it serves our purpose, we make reference to territories that are part of the migration of northern caribou herds: the northern portions of the prairie provinces and ... Angulalik was an Inuk whose social position as trader challenged the preferred image of Inuit as hunters ...
Etudes inuit, 1999
Produit en 1947 et reimprime en 1949, Le Livre de la sagesse pour Esquimaux illustre les attitude... more Produit en 1947 et reimprime en 1949, Le Livre de la sagesse pour Esquimaux illustre les attitudes coloniales que l'on retrouvait dans l'administration du Nord par le gouvernement canadien de l'epoque. Une lecture attentive de ce livre revele les mecanismes culturels grâce auxquels les attitudes coloniales etaient imposees. Le Livre fut produit afin d'essayer de mieux reglementer le corps et les pratiques des Inuit afin de suivre les exigences de l'Etat providence qui se developpa apres la Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale. On essayait de remplacer l'isuma inuit par les connaissances de la culture colonisatrice et d'etablir ainsi des relations avec l'autorite afin de faciliter l'assimilation des Inuit. Les AA. examinent Le Livre en situant son contenu et son objectif dans une perspective historique sur la sante, le bien-etre et la culture universelle caracteristique de cette periode.
Monthly Review, Jan 3, 2018
In 2016, Francisca Linconao, a Mapuche elder and spiritual leader, was arrested for her alleged r... more In 2016, Francisca Linconao, a Mapuche elder and spiritual leader, was arrested for her alleged role in a confrontation between Mapuche protesters and landowners in Chile. Linconao and ten others were held without bail for well over a year, despite scant evidence connecting them to any crime. That same year, an Inuk grandmother named Beatrice Hunter was arrested for taking part in the occupation of the construction site of a hydroelectric project in northern Canada. A year later, Hunter was jailed for defying a court order requiring her to stay away from the construction site. The imprisonment of these indigenous women exemplifies a central aspect of what John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and others have called "ecological imperialism"-the ecological dimensions of the imperialist relationship between the periphery and core of the global capitalist economy. 1 These include "the growth of the center of the system at unsustainable rates, through the more thoroughgoing ecological degradation of the periphery," as well as relations of economic and military domination, driven by the ecological rupture inherent in the capitalist mode of production (or "metabolic rift"). 2 Foster and Clark cite the nineteenth-century rush to extract soil nitrates from Peru and Bolivia for use in fertilizer, and the subsequent War of the Pacific, as a classic case of ecological imperialism. The 2003 invasion of Iraq was, for Foster and Clark, a contemporary example of this same core dynamic, whereby imperialist powers resort to military invasion to plunder the resources of countries in the global periphery. While Foster and Clark mainly consider the imperialist relation between the first and third worlds, their theoretical insights are useful in analyzing the colonial relationship between indigenous peoples, settler states, and extractive capital. A core component of ecological imperialism in the Americas today is the dispossession of indigenous lands and resources, as states in both the global North and South attempt to develop their economies through the export of raw resources, including fossil fuels, minerals, lumber, hydroelectric power, and agro-food products. 3 This "extractivism" helps fuel "the growth of the center at unsustainable
town that lost its name: the impact of hydroelectric
... I. Kulchyski, Peter Keith, 1959-. II. McCaskill, Don N. HI. Newhouse, David. E78.C2I42 1999 9... more ... I. Kulchyski, Peter Keith, 1959-. II. McCaskill, Don N. HI. Newhouse, David. E78.C2I42 1999 971'.00497 C98-933050-8 All authors' royalties for this book will be used to support cultural activities and traditional teaching in the Native Studies Department at Trent University. ...
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Sep 17, 2018
The Canadian journal of native studies, 2015
IntroductionCanada has learned nothing from its history with indigenous peoples.1 The current his... more IntroductionCanada has learned nothing from its history with indigenous peoples.1 The current historical moment involves a striking repetition of egregious past mistakes, in which the overall demands of capital accumulation underwrite a set of colonial policies whose ultimate impact is the dispossession and impoverishment of indigenous communities in northern Canada. This essay will substantiate the above contention through a look at the past twenty five years of comprehensive land claims (or modern treaty) negotiations, settlements and agreement implementations in the far north of Canada. The discussion will be prefaced with a few comments on the broad and immediate contexts of modem treaties, and by a few comments pertaining to a political theory oriented to explaining why things have changed so little.I write as a non-Aboriginal person who has devoted his full academic career to observing and understanding the contemporary historic moment of northern Canada, having spent more tha...
The Canadian journal of native studies, 2015
In recent years Canada's three northern territories have captured the attention of the rest o... more In recent years Canada's three northern territories have captured the attention of the rest of the country. The North is at the forefront of the evolving relationship between the Crown and Indigenous Nations through modern treaties; its vast lands record the rich history of the Indigenous peoples of the area and support their unique way of life; and, it has been a significant source of Canada's wealth. The wealth from these lands is controversial however as it is gained through resource extraction. This paradox has ignited a debate about the future of the North and control over its lands and resources. The current federal government is aggressively asserting its sovereignty over the North and supporting resource extraction. This is demonstrated by proposed improvements to the environmental regulatory process that Canada claims will make the process more predictable, reduce regulatory burdens and duplication and ultimately result in timely environmental reviews. Prime Ministe...
Film, History and Cultural Citizenship, 2020
Subversive Itinerary, 2012
Produit en 1947 et reimprime en 1949, Le Livre de la sagesse pour Esquimaux illustre les attitude... more Produit en 1947 et reimprime en 1949, Le Livre de la sagesse pour Esquimaux illustre les attitudes coloniales que l'on retrouvait dans l'administration du Nord par le gouvernement canadien de l'epoque. Une lecture attentive de ce livre revele les mecanismes culturels grâce auxquels les attitudes coloniales etaient imposees. Le Livre fut produit afin d'essayer de mieux reglementer le corps et les pratiques des Inuit afin de suivre les exigences de l'Etat providence qui se developpa apres la Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale. On essayait de remplacer l'isuma inuit par les connaissances de la culture colonisatrice et d'etablir ainsi des relations avec l'autorite afin de faciliter l'assimilation des Inuit. Les AA. examinent Le Livre en situant son contenu et son objectif dans une perspective historique sur la sante, le bien-etre et la culture universelle caracteristique de cette periode.
In the 100 th anniversary year of the Russian Revolutions, which inaugurated the series of revolu... more In the 100 th anniversary year of the Russian Revolutions, which inaugurated the series of revolutions that marked and defined the twentieth century, our conference focuses on the theme of revolutions. We want to speak to the widespread and widely varying causes, contexts, conditions and consequences of modern revolutions. There are many types, of course, but we are primarily interested in the often-spectacular political, social or economic events that confront particular institutional, social and ideological regimes and the unfolding consequences and actions in the days and years that follow. The revolts of colonized, enslaved and indigenous peoples from Tyrone, Toussaint, Tupac and Tecumseh, through the revolutions which defined the West like the English and the French to today's Bolivarian, Arab Spring, and colour
Canadian theatre review, 2023
University of Manitoba Press eBooks, Sep 30, 2005
University of Manitoba Press eBooks, Mar 15, 2018
Routledge eBooks, Jun 18, 2021
This article argues that bush people deserve greater attention in revolutionary thought and actio... more This article argues that bush people deserve greater attention in revolutionary thought and action, both for the strategic value of their struggles against extraction at capital's periphery and the emancipatory social values they continue to embody. But bush struggles cannot be borrowed for other purposes: the agenda of bush people for respect and cultural survival must respected in its own right. Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But perhaps it is quite different. Perhaps revolutions are what happens when the humanity travelling in this train snatches at the emergency brake' .-Walter Benjamin 1 Search for the emancipatory subject In the social ferment that characterised the 1960s, mobilisations led by colonised subjects, students, African Americans and feminists led a variety of left thinkers to reimagine the place of the working class as a revolutionary vanguard. The thinking was that some non-workingclass element of the population might be the 'real' revolutionary or emancipatory subject of history. This mode of thought is not so distant from the present as might be instinctively presumed: witness the attention, for example, of queer theory to the degree to which transgender, homo-social or non-gendered 'normative' socialities imply a radical, emancipated or emancipatory subject position and are therefore the latest carriers of the torch of revolution, albeit a revolution less interested in state power. Indigenous peoples have also been briefly bathed in the light of this hope; from the actions of the American Indian Movement in the earlier period of ferment to the more recent intensification of struggle in the current historical conjunction at Standing Rock, there have been usually short-lived hopes of an Indigenous-led structural confrontation with capitalism or at least the capitalist state. This search for an emancipatory subject continues to inflect social thinking. There is a fashion in which many thinkers, when asked about the relevance of their particular social topic, explain in a lucid manner that the question they are studying is the fulcrum, the key, the absolutely essential missing strategic theoretical insight that will unlock the gates of ARTICLE HISTORY
... Where it serves our purpose, we make reference to territories that are part of the migration ... more ... Where it serves our purpose, we make reference to territories that are part of the migration of northern caribou herds: the northern portions of the prairie provinces and ... Angulalik was an Inuk whose social position as trader challenged the preferred image of Inuit as hunters ...
Etudes inuit, 1999
Produit en 1947 et reimprime en 1949, Le Livre de la sagesse pour Esquimaux illustre les attitude... more Produit en 1947 et reimprime en 1949, Le Livre de la sagesse pour Esquimaux illustre les attitudes coloniales que l'on retrouvait dans l'administration du Nord par le gouvernement canadien de l'epoque. Une lecture attentive de ce livre revele les mecanismes culturels grâce auxquels les attitudes coloniales etaient imposees. Le Livre fut produit afin d'essayer de mieux reglementer le corps et les pratiques des Inuit afin de suivre les exigences de l'Etat providence qui se developpa apres la Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale. On essayait de remplacer l'isuma inuit par les connaissances de la culture colonisatrice et d'etablir ainsi des relations avec l'autorite afin de faciliter l'assimilation des Inuit. Les AA. examinent Le Livre en situant son contenu et son objectif dans une perspective historique sur la sante, le bien-etre et la culture universelle caracteristique de cette periode.
Monthly Review, Jan 3, 2018
In 2016, Francisca Linconao, a Mapuche elder and spiritual leader, was arrested for her alleged r... more In 2016, Francisca Linconao, a Mapuche elder and spiritual leader, was arrested for her alleged role in a confrontation between Mapuche protesters and landowners in Chile. Linconao and ten others were held without bail for well over a year, despite scant evidence connecting them to any crime. That same year, an Inuk grandmother named Beatrice Hunter was arrested for taking part in the occupation of the construction site of a hydroelectric project in northern Canada. A year later, Hunter was jailed for defying a court order requiring her to stay away from the construction site. The imprisonment of these indigenous women exemplifies a central aspect of what John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and others have called "ecological imperialism"-the ecological dimensions of the imperialist relationship between the periphery and core of the global capitalist economy. 1 These include "the growth of the center of the system at unsustainable rates, through the more thoroughgoing ecological degradation of the periphery," as well as relations of economic and military domination, driven by the ecological rupture inherent in the capitalist mode of production (or "metabolic rift"). 2 Foster and Clark cite the nineteenth-century rush to extract soil nitrates from Peru and Bolivia for use in fertilizer, and the subsequent War of the Pacific, as a classic case of ecological imperialism. The 2003 invasion of Iraq was, for Foster and Clark, a contemporary example of this same core dynamic, whereby imperialist powers resort to military invasion to plunder the resources of countries in the global periphery. While Foster and Clark mainly consider the imperialist relation between the first and third worlds, their theoretical insights are useful in analyzing the colonial relationship between indigenous peoples, settler states, and extractive capital. A core component of ecological imperialism in the Americas today is the dispossession of indigenous lands and resources, as states in both the global North and South attempt to develop their economies through the export of raw resources, including fossil fuels, minerals, lumber, hydroelectric power, and agro-food products. 3 This "extractivism" helps fuel "the growth of the center at unsustainable
town that lost its name: the impact of hydroelectric
... I. Kulchyski, Peter Keith, 1959-. II. McCaskill, Don N. HI. Newhouse, David. E78.C2I42 1999 9... more ... I. Kulchyski, Peter Keith, 1959-. II. McCaskill, Don N. HI. Newhouse, David. E78.C2I42 1999 971'.00497 C98-933050-8 All authors' royalties for this book will be used to support cultural activities and traditional teaching in the Native Studies Department at Trent University. ...
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Sep 17, 2018
The Canadian journal of native studies, 2015
IntroductionCanada has learned nothing from its history with indigenous peoples.1 The current his... more IntroductionCanada has learned nothing from its history with indigenous peoples.1 The current historical moment involves a striking repetition of egregious past mistakes, in which the overall demands of capital accumulation underwrite a set of colonial policies whose ultimate impact is the dispossession and impoverishment of indigenous communities in northern Canada. This essay will substantiate the above contention through a look at the past twenty five years of comprehensive land claims (or modern treaty) negotiations, settlements and agreement implementations in the far north of Canada. The discussion will be prefaced with a few comments on the broad and immediate contexts of modem treaties, and by a few comments pertaining to a political theory oriented to explaining why things have changed so little.I write as a non-Aboriginal person who has devoted his full academic career to observing and understanding the contemporary historic moment of northern Canada, having spent more tha...
The Canadian journal of native studies, 2015
In recent years Canada's three northern territories have captured the attention of the rest o... more In recent years Canada's three northern territories have captured the attention of the rest of the country. The North is at the forefront of the evolving relationship between the Crown and Indigenous Nations through modern treaties; its vast lands record the rich history of the Indigenous peoples of the area and support their unique way of life; and, it has been a significant source of Canada's wealth. The wealth from these lands is controversial however as it is gained through resource extraction. This paradox has ignited a debate about the future of the North and control over its lands and resources. The current federal government is aggressively asserting its sovereignty over the North and supporting resource extraction. This is demonstrated by proposed improvements to the environmental regulatory process that Canada claims will make the process more predictable, reduce regulatory burdens and duplication and ultimately result in timely environmental reviews. Prime Ministe...
Film, History and Cultural Citizenship, 2020
Subversive Itinerary, 2012
Produit en 1947 et reimprime en 1949, Le Livre de la sagesse pour Esquimaux illustre les attitude... more Produit en 1947 et reimprime en 1949, Le Livre de la sagesse pour Esquimaux illustre les attitudes coloniales que l'on retrouvait dans l'administration du Nord par le gouvernement canadien de l'epoque. Une lecture attentive de ce livre revele les mecanismes culturels grâce auxquels les attitudes coloniales etaient imposees. Le Livre fut produit afin d'essayer de mieux reglementer le corps et les pratiques des Inuit afin de suivre les exigences de l'Etat providence qui se developpa apres la Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale. On essayait de remplacer l'isuma inuit par les connaissances de la culture colonisatrice et d'etablir ainsi des relations avec l'autorite afin de faciliter l'assimilation des Inuit. Les AA. examinent Le Livre en situant son contenu et son objectif dans une perspective historique sur la sante, le bien-etre et la culture universelle caracteristique de cette periode.