“The Chief’s Two Bodies: Theresa Spence and the Gender of Settler Colonialism”

Join us for this examination of the geopolitical logic of settler colonialism and Indigenous (women's) death that underwrites the incredulity and skepticism that met (Chief) Theresa Spence's hunger strike in December and January 2012-13. Dr. Simpson argues that the structure of settler colonialism in Canada showed its public face in blog posts, editorial commentary and popular discourse (not to mention formal politics) when Spence's strategic life in the face of a stated and willed death, continued on --- as hers was a life that was already predisposed to death.

This event is co-sponsored by:

School of Canadian Studies | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies | Department of Anthropology & Sociology | Department of Geography & Environmental Studies | Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies | Faculty of Public Affairs