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POL S 545

Selected Fields of Public Policy

3 units

Winter 2024 · Topics in Canadian Public Policy

Topics

  • Discuss and describe theoretical, conceptual, historical, and practical foundations of Indigenous- led media and technology development in the Canadian context
  • Describe how the Canadian state enables, constrains and regulates Indigenous-led
  • Course Dedication to Brian Beaton
  • Introducing the First Mile Connectivity Consortium (FMCC)
  • Introducing Indigenous-settler relations and community-based media and technology development
  • “Dancing on our turtle’s back”: Indigenous resurgence and practical decolonization
  • Introducing and reflecting on Settler identity
  • Learning from Indigenous-led media and technology development
  • Introducing Settler colonialism in Canada
  • The Doctrine of Discovery and Terra Nullius
  • Early encounters: Indigenous-settler relations in the 1400s-1800s
  • Historical treaties and numbered treaties
  • Impacts of settler colonialism: Residential schools
  • Indigenous-Settler relations expressed in treaties, legislation, law, and policy
  • Treaty directions

Readings

  • Antoine, D. (2020). “Digital Indigenous politics: “There’s more than one political show in town” (pp.245-262). In T.A. Small and H.J. Jansen, Digital politics in Canada: Promises and realities, Toronto: University of Toronto Press
    required
  • Beaton, B. & Campbell, P. (2014). Settler Colonialism and First Nations e-Communities in Northwestern Ontario. Journal of Community Informatics, 10(2)
    recommended
  • Vowel, C. (2017). “Settling on a name: Names for non-Indigenous Canadians” (pp.14-22). Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada. Winnipeg: Highwater Press
    recommended
  • Greer, A. (2019). Settler colonialism and beyond. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada, 30(1), 61–86
    required
  • Little Bear, L. (2000). “Jagged Worldviews Colliding” (pp.1-9) in M. Battiste (Ed.), Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision, Vancouver: UBC Press
    required
  • Ray, A. J. (2016). “Legends of the first encounters”, (pp.38-45) in I have lived here since the world began: An illustrated history of Canada’s Native people [ Fourth Edition ]. McGill-Queen’s University Press
    recommended
  • Vowel, C. (2017). “Treaty Talk: The Evolution of Treaty-Making in Canada” (pp.243-51). Indigenous Writes: A
    recommended
  • Barker, A. (2010). From adversaries to allies: Forging respectful alliances between Indigenous and Settler Peoples. In Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous-Non-Indigenous Relationships. Editor Lynne Davis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 316-333
    recommended
  • Ginsburg, F. (1991). Indigenous media: Faustian contract or global village?, Cultural Anthropology, 6(1): 92
    recommended
  • Roth, L. (2005). “Introduction” (pp. 9-25). Something New in the Air : The Story of First Peoples Television Broadcasting in Canada, McGill-Queen’s University Press
    recommended
  • Harding, R. and Ray, S. (2021). Framing land governance issues in Indigenous and Settler media within Canada. The International Indigenous Policy Journal. 12(4)
    recommended
  • Wemigwans, J. (2018). “Indigenous resurgence and the Internet” (pp. 1-42), in A Digital Bundle: Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online, Regina: University of Regina Press
    required
  • Lalancette, M. and Raynauld, V. (2018). “Online mobilization: Tweeting truth to power in an era of revised patterns of mobilization in Canada” (pp.223-244), in T.A. Small and H.J. Jansen (Eds.), Digital politics in Canada: Promises and realities, Toronto: University of Toronto Press
    required
  • Budka, P. (2019). “Indigenous media technologies in the digital age: Cultural articulations, digital practices and sociopolitical concepts” (pp. 162-172) in S. S. Yu and M. D. Matsaganis (Eds.), Ethnic media in the digital age, New York: Routledge
    recommended
  • Ginsburg, F. (2008). “Rethinking the digital age” (pp.287-305) in P. Wilson and M. Stewart (Eds.). Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics, Durham and London: Duke University Press
    recommended
  • MacKenzie, D. and Wajcman, J. (1999). “Introductory essay: the social shaping of technology” in The social shaping of technology. 2nd ed., Open University Press, Buckingham, UK
    required
  • Duarte, M. (2017). “Network thinking: Information flows like water” (pp.9-25) in Network sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country, Seattle and London: University of Washington Press
    required
  • Deibert, R. (2020). “Introduction” (pp.1-34) in Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society, Toronto: Anansi Press
    recommended
  • Kretchmer, S.B. (2017). “Theorizing digital divides through the lens of the social construction of technology and the social shaping of technology” (pp.88-102) in M. Ragnedda & G.W. Muschert, (Eds.), Theorizing digital divides, New York: Taylor & Francis Group
    recommended
  • Philpot, D., Beaton, B., & Whiteduck, T. (2014). First Mile challenges to Last Mile rhetoric: Exploring the discourse between remote and rural First Nations and the telecom industry. The Journal of Community Informatics, 10(2)
    required
  • O’Donnell, S., & Beaton, B. (2018). A “whole-community” approach for sustainable digital infrastructure in remote and Northern First Nations. Northern Public Affairs, 6(2), 34-37
    required
  • Robinson, L., et al. (2020). Digital inequalities 2.0: Legacy inequalities in the information age. First Monday,
    recommended
  • Reisdorf, B. & Rhinesmith, C. (2020). Digital inclusion as a core component of social inclusion. Social Inclusion, 8(2), 132–137
    recommended
  • required
  • Middleton, C. (2017). An introduction to telecommunications policy in Canada, Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy, 5(4): 97-124
    recommended
  • Hudson, H.E., McMahon, R. & Murdoch, B. (2023). Beyond funding: Barriers to extending broadband in the Indigenous North. Canadian Journal of Communication, 48(2): 285-306
    recommended
  • McMahon, R., Hudson, H.E. and Fabian, L. (2017). “Canada’s Northern communications policies: The role of Aboriginal organizations” (pp. 259-292), in N. J. Mulé, and G. C. DeSantis (Eds.), The Shifting Terrain: Nonprofit Policy Advocacy in Canada, McGill-Queens University Press
    required
  • Moran, R. E., & Bui, M. N. (2019). Race, ethnicity, and telecommunications policy issues of access and representation: Centering communities of color and their concerns. Telecommunications Policy, 43(5), 461-473
    required
  • Roth, L. and Audette-Longo, P. (2018). “Co-movement revisited: reflections on four decades of media
    recommended
  • McMahon, R. and Akcayir, M. (2022). Voices from Northern Canada: Integrating stakeholder expectations in telecommunications policy for rural, remote and Northern regions, Telecommunications Policy, 46
    recommended
  • Whiteduck, J. (2010). “Chapter 6: Building the First Nations e-Community” (pp. 95-103) in J. White, J
    required
  • Peters, P. Dinsdale, and D. Beavon, Aboriginal Policy Research VI: Learning, Technology and Traditions, Toronto: Thompson Educational
    required
  • Budka, P. (2015). From marginalization to self-determined participation: Indigenous digital infrastructures and technology appropriation in northwestern Ontario’s remote communities, Journal des anthropologues: 127
    required
  • First Mile Connectivity Consortium (FMCC) (2018). Stories from the First Mile: Digital Technologies in Remote and Rural Indigenous Communities. First Nations Innovation and First Mile Connectivity Consortium. Fredericton: FMCC
    recommended
  • Song, S., Rey-Moreno, C., Esterhuysen, A., Jensen, M., & Navarro, L. (2018). Introduction: The rise and fall and rise of community networks. In A. Finlay (ed.). Global Information Society Watch 2018: Community Networks. Ottawa: Association for Progressive Communications and International Development Research Centre
    required
  • Sandvig, C. (2012). Connection at Ewiiaapaayp Mountain: Indigenous internet infrastructure. In: L. Nakamura & P. Chow-White (eds.). Race After the Internet, pp. 168-200. New York: Routledge
    required
  • Lithgow, M., Garrison, P., Han Beol Jang, E., and Pacé, N. (2022). Network wisdom: The role of scaffolding in expanding communities of practice and technical competencies in community networks. Canadian Journal of
    recommended
  • Carpenter, P. (2010). “Utilizing Technologies to Promote Education and Well-Being: The Kuhkenah Network (K-Net)”. In Aboriginal policy research: Learning, technology, and Traditions. (pp.119-127)
    required
  • Young, J. C. (2019). Rural digital geographies and new landscapes of social resilience. Journal of Rural Studies, 70, 66-74
    required
  • Perley, D., O’Donnell, S., George, C., Beaton, B. and Peter--Paul, S. (2016). Supporting Indigenous Language and Cultural Resurgence with Digital Technologies. Fredericton: Mi’kmaq Wolastoqey Centre. University of New Brunswick, November
    recommended
  • First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC) (2016). “Pathways to First Nations’ data and information sovereignty” (pp.139-155) in T. Kukutai and J. Taylor (Eds.), Indigenous data sovereignty: Toward
    required
  • an agenda, Canberra: Australian National University Press
    required
  • required
  • Robinson et al. (2020). Digital inequalities 3.0: Emergent inequalities in the information age. First Monday, 7
    recommended
  • Beaton, B., Burnard, T., Linden, A. & O'Donnell, S. (2015). Keewaytinook mobile: An Indigenous community- owned mobile phone service in northern Canada. In L. Dyson, S. Grant & M. Hendriks (eds.), Indigenous People and Mobile Technologies, Routledge. Sydney, Australia, 109-124
    recommended
  • Morin, C., Screen sovereignty: Indigenous Matriarch 4 articulating the future of Indigenous VR. BC Studies, 201: 141-146
    recommended
Sources