Against the Settler Colonial City

This seminar addresses the relationship between settler colonialism and the built environment, approaching the city as a site of dispossession, contestation, and resistance, shaped by both colonial histories and anticolonial movements. Settler colonialism refers to historic and ongoing strategies of land dispossession through processes of permanent settlement. This plays out in urban space where public land and private property confront practices of self-determination, and institutions like schools and housing exercise the hegemony of the state on the one hand, or agendas activist and community movements on the other.