Politics of Memory: Digital Repositories, Settler Colonialism, and Jordan Abel's Un/inhabited

Abstract

The violent standoff between white supremacists and anti-racist counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, on 12 August 2017, galvanized a series of debates regarding the removal of Confederate symbols in the United States of America.1 Ten days later, groups in Canada, Colonialism No More and the Saskatchewan Coalition Against Racism, organized a rally and began circulating a petition for the removal of a statue of Canada’s First Prime Minister John A. Mcdonald in Victoria Park in Regina, Saskatchewan. The groups called for its removal on account of Macdonald’s role in the colonization of Indigenous lands and his involvePolitics of Memory: Digital Repositories, Settler Colonialism, and Jordan Abel’s Un/inhabited