Thresholds Revisited: Unsettling ‘Home’ in Settler Societies

Abstract

A meditation on belonging, migration, and homemaking, Leonie Sandercock’s “Unsettling ‘Home’ in Settler Societies,” demands rereading in conversation with current discourses on decolonization and Indigenous land rights. Republished with a new foreword by the author, the piece is offered as an exercise in “consciousness raising,” as an opportunity to practice foregrounding Indigenous struggles and knowledge in our daily encounters with ostensibly disparate scholarship. From conversations on climate change to legislation on immigration policy, Indigenous epistemologies help to frame and guide issues of marginalization, citizenship, and identity. With so much left to still “unsettle,” it is in this spirit that we offer, twenty years later, this piece once again. LEONIE SANDERCOCK