{"id":19349,"date":"2015-11-16T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T19:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=19349"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:17:24","slug":"what-would-a-decolonial-city-be-like","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/event\/what-would-a-decolonial-city-be-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What Would a Decolonial City be Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p>FOUNDERS SEMINAR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presents<br>\nDr. Heather Dorries<br>\nAssistant Professor<br>\nCarleton University<br>\nSchool of Public Policy and Administration<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What Would a Decolonial City be Like?&nbsp;Speculations on Planning Theory, Sovereignty, and Indigenist Urbanism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having recognized planning\u2019s role in settler colonialism, planning scholars have begun to grapple with the question of how urban planning theories and practices might be decolonized. However, Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies have been largely absent from this literature. The central argument of this paper is that if the city is to be target for anti-colonial struggle, planning and urbanism must begin to prioritize the political agenda that has been set by Indigenous peoples. This paper also contemplates possibilities for an &#8220;Indigenist urbanism&#8221;, which foregrounds Indigenous political goals and considers how Indigenous intellectual traditions might be interpreted within the realm of planning and urbanism to provide a vision for the flourishing of urban Indigenous life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heather Dorries is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University, where she teaches in the Indigenous Policy and Administration Program. She received her MScPl and PhD from the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. Following her graduate work she held positions in Geography at McMaster University and the University of British Columbia. Before coming to Carleton she worked as a research associate for the City of Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-19349","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2015-11-20T14:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2015-11-20T16:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"LA","cu_event_meeting_room":"A220","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"null","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Natalia Fierro Marquez","cu_event_email":"natalia.fierromarquez@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/19349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/19349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=19349"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=19349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}