An Archive of Settler Belonging: Local Feeling, Land, and the Forest Resource on Vancouver Island (Black 2017)

TITLE: An Archive of Settler Belonging: Local Feeling, Land, and the Forest Resource on Vancouver Island

AUTHOR: Kelly Black

DATE: 2017

DESCRIPTION: Thesis submitted for PhD in Canadian Studies with Specialization in Political Economy at Carleton University

EXTRACT: “This dissertation explores the local, material, and affective processes of Settler (non-Indigenous) attachment to land on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. I describe these feelings for land as Settler belonging and my research is guided by a reflexive and interdisciplinary approach that seeks to “explain Settlers to ourselves.” Through original archival research and personal reflection, I argue that “(dis)possession,” a term that encompasses Settler efforts to take the land and belong to the land, is a generational process, one that is worked at over time in an effort to link the past with the present and serve future Settler belonging…”

ACCESS: Free online access here