JurisTalks Lecture: Sovereignty and Citizenization in the Settler Colony

Tuesday, March 30, 2021 from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

• Virtual event

JurisTalks Lecture: Sovereignty and Citizenization in the Settler Colony

Featuring Speaker Professor Johnny Mack

Professor Mack will be speaking to the connection between sovereignty and citizenship for indigenous peoples within the Canadian settler state.

Specifically, it assesses the manner in which state sovereignty engages its own juridical technologies and sociopolitical processes of citizenisation as means of folding indigenous polities into the state’s public. The underlying claim is that there is an inverse relationship between the state’s indigenous citizenisation project and Indigenous modalities of belonging to a territory and people. The more indigenous peoples come to practice citizenship within the state’s publics, the less space is available to maintain their indigenous ‘publics’ that precede and often counter the state.

To support this claim, the author will provide a biographical account of belonging to an Indigenous Nation that has comprehensively folded themselves into the state public by signing the Maa-nulth Treaty Agreement in 2007 (MFA).

Biography
Professor Johnny Mack is from the Toquaht Nation (Nuu-chah-nulth) and an Assistant Professor jointly appointed to the Peter A. Allard School of Law and First Nations and Indigenous Studies at UBC. Professor Mack has an LLB and an LLM from the University of Victoria. His PhD research has earned a CGS scholarship from SSHRC and the Trudeau Foundation (2011). Professor Mack’s research investigates the legal relationship between indigenous and settler peoples in contemporary settler states, particularly Canada.

This event is open to members of the Carleton University community. Registration is required. View the poster.