Contents
Preface: An Autobiography of Territory
Introduction
1. Flipping the Terms of Recognition: A Methodology
2. How Did Colonialism Fail to Dispossess?
3. Jurisdiction from the Ground Up: A Legal Order of Care
4. Property as a Technique of Jurisdiction: Traplines and
Tenure
5. “They’re Clear-Cutting Our Way of Life”
6. The Trilateral Agreement is Born
7. Coup D’état in Fourth World Canada
8. The Government Must Fall
9. Security, Critical Infrastructure, and the Geography of
Indigenous Lands
Conclusion: A Land Claim is Canada’s Claim: Against
Extinguishment
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Shiri Pasternak is assistant professor in the School for the Study of Canada at Trent University. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University and at Columbia University’s Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies.
"Grounded Authority is a powerful and compelling study based upon a
sophisticated grasp of Indigenous politics, settler colonial
logics, and political theory."—Kevin Bruyneel, author of The Third
Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.–Indigenous
Relations"An impressive and highly original analysis of the
overlapping conflict-laden regimes of legal and political
authority, Shiri Pasternak's deeply researched study provides an
analytically nuanced and engaging account of the ways in which the
Algonquins of Barriere Lake confront the jurisdictional claims over
their land and lives made by Canada and the province of Quebec.
Grounded Authority brilliantly succeeds at intervening at multiple
registers."—Alyosha Goldstein, University of New Mexico
"Extremely well-researched and documented."—CHOICE
"Grounded Authority is a nuanced and careful ethnographic project
that demonstrates how ethnography can be a powerful tool for
Indigenous people. Pasternak brings political economy into the
frame of analysis, paying necessary attention to the seemingly
mundane aspects of governance." —American Indian Quarterly
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