1. Culture and Globalization
Space & Place II
Land, Natural Resources,
and Settler Colonialism
February 20, 2013

2. Settler Colonialism
● What do we mean by colonialism and
imperialism?
● What are we describing when we call
globalization "neo-colonialism"?
● What does settler colonialism describe? How
can we connect it specifically to our
understandings of globalization?

3. Goldstein: Where the Nation Takes Place
● What are the main issues at stake in this
article?
● How does the framework of "national
sovereignty" come into play here?
● What fundamental questions about U.S.
settler colonialism do these land struggles
pose?

4. Waziyatawin: Paradox of Indigenous
resurgence
● According to Waziyatawin, in what ways are
environmental issues indigenous issues?
● How does this connect to the history of
globalization, from early European
colonialism on?

5. Uranium Mining
● How does this issue connect to the
Goldstein and Waziyatawin articles?
● How does the excerpt from Ceremony depict
this case?
● In what ways is uranium mining a good case
study of the transition to globalization?

6. Uranium Mining
● How does this issue connect to the
Goldstein and Waziyatawin articles?
● How does the excerpt from Ceremony depict
this case?
● In what ways is uranium mining a good case
study of the transition to globalization?
○ military-industrial complex, Cold War, biological
regimes, colonialism, capitalist competition