CLICK HERE FOR THE ZINE: Kaleb Conquergood CULT 349C Colonial Legacies Project Kelowna A Settler Fantasy Works Assembled By Kaleb Conquergood (2)
The Okanagan: A Settler Fantasy is a zine that engages with cultural individualism, consumerism, and neoliberalism within community and history of so-called Kelowna and beyond (situated on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Sylix Okanagan Peoples). Working through some examples of Kelowna’s tourist, agricultural, and recreational industries, this zine identifies the cultural perceptions of these industries which manifest as a “settler fantasy.” Kelowna’s “settler fantasy” is a cultural and individual indulgence in settler state industries that manifests in a disillusioned understanding of one’s’ settler or ‘Canadian’ identity. It was submitted as a Colonial Legacies assignment in CULT 340 Colonialism and Decolonization.
Kaleb Conquergood is a third-year Gender/Women and Sexuality Studies Major and Cultural Studies Minor as of May 2024. Their research and study interests range from postfeminist and queer theory, affect theory in fashion studies, decolonial studies, and works on poststructuralism.
