Episode 4 – Non-Indigenous Understandings of Land

This episode’s discussion focuses on largely Western ideas regarding the ontology of land and the relationships between people, the state, and the land, offering a critical perspective on the dominant and colonial approaches to land which have historically guided our understandings of land and land rights.

Featuring:

• Alejandra Mancilla (University of Oslo) “A Continent of and for Whiteness? “White” Colonialism and the 1959 Antarctic Treaty”
• Kerstin Reibold (UiT: Arctic University of Norway) “The Cultural and Historical Perspective of Welfare Egalitarianism”
• Margaret Moore (Queen’s University) “Indigenous Land Rights and State Territorial Rights”