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DESCRIPTION:Deborah Cowen \n	University of Toronto\n	\n	Beyond '150': Transnat
 ional Infrastructures of Empire and Resistance\n	Despite commitments to sys
 temic and institutional change in the wake of the 2015 Truth and Reconcili
 ation Commission\, ‘Canada 150’ celebrations proceeded apace over the summ
 er of 2017. Festivities were awash with the language of reconciliation\, b
 ut performed amnesia regarding both historic and ongoing state violence\, 
 including the very act of celebrating ‘replacement’. Indigenous people org
 anized against the whitewashed birthday festivities\, insisting that strug
 gles over pipelines\, damns\, and drinking water offered a better diagnosi
 s of ‘Nation to Nation’ relations. Drawing attention to the infrastructure
  that underpins contemporary settler colonialism – water and land protecto
 rs expose ties that are long and bind tight. In fact\, ‘Canada 150’ also m
 arks the completion of the national railroad on which settler state confed
 eration relied. The CPR was famously referred to as ‘the spine of the nati
 on’\, but it was built on Indigenous\, Black\, and Chinese backs. This tal
 k explores the key role of infrastructure in the formation and contestatio
 n of settler colonial space. It traces a set of cartographies that cut acr
 oss nationalist narratives to foreground the violent ways infrastructure h
 olds us together across time and space. Tracking the making of this ‘natio
 nal spine’ through the transnational slave trade\, indigenous dispossessio
 n\, and violent racial capitalism\, this talk asks what infrastructures ca
 n take us beyond ‘150’?\n\n\n	Bio: Deborah Cowen is Associate Professor in 
 the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto and 
 a 2016 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellow. Her research explores the
  role of organized violence in shaping intimacy\, space\, and citizenship.
  She is the author of The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Gl
 obal Trade with the University of Minnesota Press\, Military Workfare: The
  Soldier and Social Citizenship in Canada\, and co-editor with Emily Gilbe
 rt\, of War\, Citizenship\, Territory. Deborah has also been active in com
 munity-based research and organizing in Toronto addressing the racializati
 on of sub/urban space\, and was a collaborator on the National Film Board 
 of Canada’s Emmy award winning HIGHRISE project. Deborah serves on the boa
 rd of the Groundswell Community Justice Trust Fund. \n\nMore information c
 oming soon.\n
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LOCATION:Room 210\, Bronfman Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1G5\, 1001
  rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:AHCS Speaker Series | Deborah Cowen 'Beyond '150': Transnational In
 frastructures of Empire and Resistance'
URL:/ahcs/channels/event/ahcs-speaker-series-deborah-c
 owen-beyond-150-transnational-infrastructures-empire-and-resistance-283938
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