This document discusses settler colonialism and its connection to globalization. It examines how settler colonialism involved claiming indigenous lands and natural resources. Articles by Goldstein and Waziyatawin explore how land struggles raise fundamental questions about U.S. settler colonialism and how environmental issues are inherently indigenous issues due to a history of colonial exploitation of resources. Uranium mining is presented as a case study showing how indigenous lands and health were negatively impacted by the globalization of resource extraction for military and industrial purposes.

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