Eva Mackey

Professor Emerit

Degrees:	H.B.A. (Toronto); M.A. (Sussex); Ph.D. (Sussex)
Email:	eva.mackey@carleton.ca

Research Interests

Eva Mackey has published two books and numerous book chapters and journal articles on issues concerning nationalism, identity, whiteness, multiculturalism, cultural politics, Indigenous land rights and decolonization in Canada and Australia.

Her research and teaching interests include the politics of culture, identity, nation, race, rights, representation and history within the context of colonial /national/ global processes. My key research questions concern the limits and possibilities of modernity, liberalism and settler colonialism regarding cultural difference and governance. Specific projects have examined multiculturalism, national identity and the politics of culture in Canada; contests about race and representation in Canada; and Aboriginal rights “backlash” and decolonization in settler nations.

Selected Publications

Books

Mackey, Eva. 2016. Unsettled Expectations: Uncertainty, Land and Settler Decolonization. Fernwood Publishing.Unsettled Expectations

Mackey, Eva. 2002. The House of Difference: Cultural Politics and National Identity in Canada. University of Toronto Press (Paperback). Also published in 1999 by Routledge (UK) hardcover. http://www.utppublishing.com/_search.php?page=1&init=1&q=mackey

Articles and Chapters

Mackey, Eva. 2014. Unsettling Expectations: (Un)certainty, Settler States of Feeling, Law, and Decolonization. Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société, 29, pp 235-252 http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0829320114000106 ( Winner of the 2015 Canadian Law and Society Association English Article Prize).

Mackey, Eva. 2013. “The Apologizers Apology” for Jennifer Henderson and Pauline Wakeham (eds). Reconciling Canada: Historical Injustices and the Contemporary Culture of Redress. University of Toronto Press.http://www.utppublishing.com/Reconciling-Canada-Critical-Perspectives-on-the-Culture-of-Redress.html

Mackey, Eva. 2012. “Tricky Myths: settler pasts and landscapes of innocence.” In Peter Hodgins and Nicole Neatby, (eds.) Settling and Unsettling Memories: Essays in Canadian Public History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. http://www.utppublishing.com/Settling-and-Unsettling-Memories-Essays-in-Canadian-Settling-and-Unsettling-Memories.html

Mackey, Eva. 2012. “Multiculturalism” In Michael Groden, Martin Kriesworth and Imre Szeman (Eds). Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory – The Johns Hopkins Guide. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 336-342. Revised version of Mackey, Eva. 2004. Definition of “Multiculturalism” In Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. http://books.google.ca/books/about/Contemporary_Literary_and_Cultural_Theor.html?id=kiyRXKrpuiYC&redir_esc=y

Mackey, Eva. 2011. “Competing or relational autonomies? Globalization, Property and Friction over land rights.” In William Coleman (ed.) Property, Territory, Globalization: Struggles over Autonomy. University of British Columbia Press http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=299173305

Mackey, Eva. 2009. “Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in a Multicultural Nation: Contests over Truth in the Into the Heart of Africa Controversy.” In Imre Szeman (ed) Between Empires: A Canadian Cultural Studies Reader. Duke University Press. Originally published in Public Culture 7(2): 403-431. 1995. https://www.dukeupress.edu/Canadian-Cultural-Studies/?viewby=author&lastname=Szeman&firstname=Imre&middlename=&sort=newest

Mackey, Eva. 2007. “’Death by Landscape:’ Race, Nature and Gender in Canadian Nationalist mythology”. In Eugenia Sojka (ed) (De)Constructing Canadianness: Myth of the Nation and its Discontents Wydawa Publishers, Poland. Originally published in Canadian Women’s Studies Volume 20, Number 2. Summer 2000: 125-130.

Mackey, Eva. 2005. “Universal’ rights in national and local conflicts: ‘backlash’ and ‘benevolent resistance’ to indigenous land rights,” Anthropology Today 21, 2:14-20. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0268-540X.2005.00340.x/abstract

Mackey, Eva. 2004. Definition of “Multiculturalism”, in Johns Hopkin’s Guide to Literary Criticism. Johns Hopkins University Press. http://litguide.press.jhu.edu/

Mackey, Eva. 2002 Review of The dark side of the nation: essays on multiculturalism, nationalism and gender (Himani Bannerji), and Multiculturalism and the history of Canadian diversity (Richard Day) American Ethnologist Volume 29, Number 2: 475-77

Mackey, Eva. 1999. “Constructing an Endangered Nation: Risk, Race and Rationality in Australia’s Native Title Debate,” in Deborah Lupton, ed., Risk and Sociocultural Theory: New Directions and Perspectives. Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/sociology/social-theory/risk-and-sociocultural-theory-new-directions-and-perspectives

Mackey, Eva. 1998. “Becoming Indigenous: Land,Belonging, and the Appropriation of Aboriginality in Canadian Nationalist Narratives,”Social Analysis (42):2:149–178. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/23166573?uid=3739448&uid=2134&uid=2&uid=70&uid=3737720&uid=4&sid=21102553206321

Mackey, Eva. 1997. “The Cultural Politics of Populism: Celebrating Canadian National Identity,” in Anthropology of Policy, (Routledge) edited by Cris Shore and Susan Wright.

Mackey, Eva. 1995. “Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in a Multicultural Nation: Contests over Truth in the Into the Heart of Africa Controversy” Public Culture Winter 1995 7(2): 403-431; http://publicculture.dukejournals.org/content/7/2/403.full.pdf+html

Selected Awards

2011-12 Massey University (New Zealand) International Visitor Research Fund. With Dr. Avril Bell. Project: “Living Treaty Relationships.”
2011. BRCSS Distinguished Visiting Scholar – Massey University New Zealand (BRCSS, the Building Research Capability in the Social Sciences Network):
2010. International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS) International Research Linkages Grant: Title: “Living Together Differently: Indigene-Settler-Migrant Relations in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand”. With Dr. Avril Bell, Massey University, New Zealand
2008. Fulbright Traditional Scholar Award — Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States. Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.
2004. SSHRC Standard Grant: Principle Investigator (April 2004 to April 2008) Title: Human Rights and Property in Settler Nations
2002. SSHRC MCRI grant – Globalization and Autonomy. Co-investigator. Principle Investigator Will Coleman – (2002-7). Sub-project Title: “Globalization, Autonomy and Conflicts over Citizenship”
1999. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada — Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 1999-2001
1997. Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, USA — Richard Carley Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship 1997-98
1997. Charles Sturt University, Australia — Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 1997 – 1999

Recent Graduate Supervisions

Rachelle Dickenson (PhD) Canadian Studies. 2020. Title: Curating Intimacies: The Ace Truelove Collection and Decolonial Curatorial Practice.

Charlotte Hoelke – (PhD) Canadian Studies. 2018. Dragging Queer Liberalism: The Unsettling Performances of Trixie, Katya, and Miss Chief.

Shaun Stevenson (PhD Department of English – Co-supervision with Jennifer Henderson). 2018. Title: “(Re)Making Indigenous Water Worlds: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, and Hydrosocial Relations in the Settler Nation,”

Kelly Black (PhD) Thesis Title: “An Archive of Settler Belonging: Local Feeling, Land, and the Forest Resource on Vancouver Island” Defended Oct. 2017

Robyn Green. (PhD) Canadian Studies. Thesis Title: “Recovering Subjects: Investment in an Era of Reconciliation.” Defended April 2016.

Kieran McKinnon Master of Arts Canadian Studies MRP paper. Title: “Multiculturalizing Wilderness: Settler Belonging and Parks Canada’s Learn to Camp Program” (completed May 2016)

Diana Cullen 2014-2015 –(with Pauline Rankin) MRP paper. Title: “Hope in the Unsettled: The Power of Haunting in Deconstructing Settler Narratives” completed August 2015

Dustin Schultz, Major Research Paper in Canadian Studies “Imposing Certainty: The Ontario Far North Act (2010)” completed Aug 2015

Sarah Baker, Major Research Paper in Canadian Studies “Invisibl[ized] Women: Exploring the Gendered Dynamics of Homelessness Discourse” 2014

Emma Gooch, Major Research Paper in Canadian Studies “Our Story Within: Mapping “Home” in Jane Urquhart’s Sanctuary Line and A Map of Glass”2015

Kelly Black, Major Research Paper: “Enacting Settler Property, Advancing Indigenous Dispossession: The Coloniality of Property Relations on Southern Vancouver Island” 2011

Samah Sabra (PhD): (2012)“(Re)negotiated Identifications: Reproducing and Challenging the Meanings of Arab, Canadian, and Arab Canadian Identities in Ottawa. “

Besmira Alikaj: MA Research paper – program in Political Economy: “The Corporate Socially Responsible University: A case study of Carleton University’s Transportation Demand management.” (2011)

Melissa Orr : MA Research Paper Carleton University – Canadian Studies. “Afrocentric Schools and the end of Multiculturalism” (2009)

Cindy Gaudet: MA Research Paper Carleton University – Canadian Studies. “Metis Women and Memory: Learning to Live beyond the Wounds of History” (2009)

Ron Roy: MA Research Paper Carleton University – Canadian Studies. “An imagined village in the heart of Ottawa: A community case study of Westboro” (2008)

Jaimy Miller: MA thesis McMaster Department of Anthropology. “Who can make a land claim? Identity,and the Papaschase Band. ” (2006.)

Rosette Adera: MA in Globalization, 2006. McMaster University. “Gender Roles and Pedagogies of Mobilization in the Rwandan Genocide.” (2006)