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H21(a) - CPSA Reconciliation Committee Event - Événement du Comité sur la réconciliation de l’ACSP : Disjunctures: Indigenous Redirections in Political Theory

Date: Jun 4 | Heure: 03:30pm to 05:00pm | Salle: FSS 1006

Chair/Président/Présidente : Elaine Coburn (York University)

Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill University)
Daniel Sherwin (Mount Royal University)
Matthew Wildcat (University of Alberta)
Melissa Williams (University of Toronto)

Abstract: In Disjunctures: Indigenous Redirections in Political Theory (Oxford University Press 2025), Allard-Tremblay argues that Indigenous and Euro-modern political traditions offer two fundamentally different ways forward for reconciliation between Indigenous peoples, settlers and others who now call settler states home. Despite their internal diversity, they offer irreconcilable, inconsistent pathways forwards. Dominant Euro-modern models emphasize justice, sovereign autonomy and non-reciprocal governance, among other principles, while Indigenous traditions emphasize harmony and relationships of reciprocal responsibility to both human and other-than-human actors. Indigenous politics provides important bases to move towards reconciliation, leading to transformed relations beyond prevailing oppressive relations and ecological destruction. This author-meets critics session brings together leading scholars in political theory to critically engage with Allard-Tremblay’s argument, as developed in Disjunctures. What are the implications for our shared political futures on these lands? How might Indigenous politics inform new ways of doing political theory? In opening up a dialogue about Disjunctures, author and critics seek to shed new light on how we understand and politically act towards reconciliation in and through insights from Indigenous political theory and practice. This discussion promises to offer important contributions to our understanding of how we may live together, in right relations to each other and to the lands upon which we all depend for our survival.

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