Settler Colonialism: Confronting Contemporary Canadian Colonialism

Hear from our guest speaker to explore the denial of settler colonialism and its impact on mainstream political discourses.

Dr. Adam Barker speaks to how the term "colonialism" seems to cause intractable conflict when applied to Canada. To some, Canada left colonialism behind along with the British Empire. To others, especially Indigenous people and their allies, colonialism is very much ongoing, and settler colonialism is very specific at the core of this.

Guest Speaker

Adam Barker, a settler Canadian originally from the overlapping territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples in Hamilton, Ontario, focuses his research on analyzing settler colonialism in North America. With a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Leicester, UK, and an MA in Indigenous Governance from the University of Victoria, he seeks to generate strategies for effective decolonial activism. Currently, Adam serves as a researcher at the University of Sheffield, UK.