Colonial Extractivism and Wet’suwet’en Resistance: Tyler McCreary’s Guest Lecture
On November 22, 2024 Tyler McCreary, our Fall 2024 visiting professor, hosted a guest lecture on his work Colonial Extractivism and Wet’suwet’en Resistance. In his talk, drawn from his book, Tyler examines the politics of pipelines on unceded Wet’suwet’en territories in Northern British Columbia, Canada. McCreary showcases how colonial governments and corporations seek to control Indigenous claims and rationalize pipeline development. He interrogates how pipeline regulatory review processes fail to address fundamental questions about territory and jurisdiction in a settler state, and how the Wet’suwet’en continue to resist colonial containments. Analyzing the cyclical movements between resistance and reconciliation, McCreary invites listeners to understand pipeline politics in terms of the foundational conflict between Indigenous and Wet’suwet’en law.
Listen to Tyler’s guest lecture here.