Land Claims and Liberal Modes of Governance: An Analysis of Post-Comprehensive Land Claims Institutions in Canada

• Main Author: Lelievre, Joshua
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Canada; Nunavut
• Online Access: https://curve.carleton.ca/8aeb2dce-30f4-493e-9304-f21fb5e1288b; https://doi.org/10.22215/etd/2018-13283; http://catalogue.library.carleton.ca/record=b4528447

This thesis applies a governmentality/Foucauldian lens to the Comprehensive Land Claims (CLC) regime of governance in Canada. More specifically, I engage an interpretative-empirical analysis of the Nunavut Land Claim and to a lesser extent the Algonquin Agreement in Principle. The object of my research is to add to literature critical of land claims. I look to unpack and explore an underdeveloped area of the CLC regime - the impact of colonial liberal institutions in post-CLC indigenous community. I argue that a governmentality lens can call into question the normative expectations for Indigneous communities that flow from CLCs.