Independence without Revolution and White Settle Colonialism: 155 years since Canadian Confederation
The establishment of Canadian Confederation in 1967, which was celebrated with great extravaganza on its 150th anniversary in 2017, was the ideological and discursive ratification of white settler colonialism. This commemoration is controversial since it has excluded sectors of the population who ha...
| Published in: | Dialogía |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Instituto de Estudios Mijail Bajtín
2022
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uio.no/Dialogia/article/view/10287 https://doi.org/10.51440/dialogia.16.8 |
| Summary: | The establishment of Canadian Confederation in 1967, which was celebrated with great extravaganza on its 150th anniversary in 2017, was the ideological and discursive ratification of white settler colonialism. This commemoration is controversial since it has excluded sectors of the population who have lived and still live in the territory now called Canada, but which many Native Americans call Turtle Island. This essay offers a brief overview of the relatively unknown history of the Canadian Confederation to demonstrate that this emancipation — which developed as an independence without revolution — served to ratify the colonialist attitudes which characterized the European settlement in the territory of British North America which originally belonged to Canada’s indigenous people, and still survive today. El establecimiento de la Confederación canadiense en 1967, celebrada con grandes fastos en su 150 aniversario de 2017, supuso la ratificación ideológica y discursiva del colonialismo blanco. Este tipo de conmemoraciones resultan conflictivas ya que han excluido a sectores de la población que han vivido y viven en el territorio ahora denominado Canadá, pero que muchos nativos norteamericanos llaman Turtle Island. Este ensayo realiza un breve recorrido por la relativamente desconocida historia de la Confederación canadiense con el fin de demostrar que dicha emancipación, que se desarrolló como una independencia sin revolución, sirvió para ratificar los comportamientos colonialistas que caracterizaron el asentamiento de los europeos en el territorio de la Norteamérica británica que pertenecía a los pueblos canadienses. |
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