Movements

Dissent and the Security State

edited by Andrew Crosby and Jeffrey Monaghan

An accessible must-read for all Canadians concerned about respectful relations with Indigenous People and the decline of civil rights in the war-on-terror era.

Publishers Weekly

In recent years, Indigenous peoples have led a number of high profile movements fighting for social and environmental justice in Canada. From land struggles to struggles against resource extraction, pipeline development and fracking, land and water defenders have created a national discussion about these issues and successfully slowed the rate of resource extraction. In one of the most comprehensive accounts of contemporary government surveillance, the authors vividly demonstrate that it is the norms of settler colonialism that allow these movements to be classified as national security threats and the growing land theft; Idle No More; Indian Affairs; treaty rights; disposession; self-determination; extractive capitalism; logic of elimination; decolonization