Unsettling Revitalization in Toronto: The Fantasy and Apology of the Settler City

• Main Author: Halpin, Bryony Jane
• Other Authors: Scott, Dayna N.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Geography; Critical Indigenous studies; Settler colonialism; City of Toronto; Urban revitalization; Reconciliation; Environmental justice; Black Lives Matter; Idle No More; Critical geography; Truth and Reconciliation; Slavery in Canada; Toronto Waterfront; Postcolonialism; Decolonize; Anti-racism; Homelessness; Indigenous sovereignty; White privilege; State-sponsored reconciliation; Politics of recognition; Urban space; Right to the city; Transformative praxis; Settler colonial studies; Critical urban studies; Sugar Beach; Mississauga New Credit; First Nations Inuit and Metis; Settler colonial cities; Municipal colonialism; Critical race studies; Fantasy; The age of apology; Settler violence; The Meeting Place; Settler geographies; Post-racial; Racialized; Social movements; The North Star; Multiculturalism; Critiques of multiculturalism; Public space; Public parks; Red Power; The Right to the City; Treaties; Terra nullius; Dispossession; Canada; North Star; First Nations; inuit; Metis
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/33544

At a time when social movements for Indigenous resurgence in Canada are as powerful as ever, and are coupled with state-sponsored reconciliation and recognition efforts (focused primarily on residential schools), it is crucial to examine the ongoing systemic processes unique to the settler colony th...