Land acknowledgements in the academy: Refusing the settler myth

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The article is a critical review of Land Acknowledgements from Indigenous PhD student Joe Wark.

“While initially understood as culturally based political statements to resist the erasure of Indigenous presence and colonial violence, these practices have been repurposed in settler institutions. Land acknowledgements have now become deeply embedded in state-sponsored “forgive-and-forget” reconciliation efforts that seek to absorb Indigenous peoples into the body politic of “good Canadians.”

                                                                                                                                                                –  Wark (2021).

Joe Wark (2021) Land acknowledgements in the academy: Refusing the settler myth, Curriculum Inquiry, 51:2, 191-209, DOI: 10.1080/03626784.2021.1889924

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