Planning Through Land Acknowledgments

About Planning Through Land Acknowledgments

This podcast takes a critical look at land acknowledgments and attempts to understand what they’re saying, why they are done, and how planners, as land-based practitioners, can integrate the what and why into their work. I talk about the Canadian state, settler colonialism, capitalism, and treaties.

Publisher

Emma Nelson

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Oct 2020

Latest episode

4 Oct 2020

Latest episodes

4 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Oct 2020

   Episode 4: Capitalism & Location

   [EP4 NOTES] Taiaiako’n Historic Preservation Society: https://taiaiakon.wordpress.com/ Books that led me to the listening exercise: Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass (https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass) and Gathering Moss (http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/gathering-moss) On learning from/in “nature”: Brody, Michael. (2005). “Learning in nature,” Environmental Education Research, 11:5, 603-621, DOI: 10.1080/13504620500169809 Tuck, Eve and K. Wayne Yang. (2012). “Decolonization is not a metaphor,” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1:1, 1-40. Wolfe, Patrick. (2006). “Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native,” Journal of Genocide Research, 8:4, 387-409, DOI: 10.1080/14623520601056240 I was made aware of Jacques “James” Baby’s slave ownership through the anonymous artist who posted signs detailing little-highlighted history of areas in Toronto, first seen here: https://twitter.com/IreneMooreDavi1/status/1297127704089722881 TRC Reports: http://nctr.ca/reports.php Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls final report: https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/ 1492 Land Back Lane: https://ca.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund-1492-land-back-lane Donate to Unist’ot’en Camp to support the Wet’suwet’en: https://unistoten.camp/support-us/donate/ “Shrugs greet historic $145M Toronto land claim settlement”: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2010/06/08/shrugs_greet_historic_145m_toronto_land_claim_settlement.html It is difficult to determine exactly how much of Toronto’s budget comes from development charges, but for an example, the development charges to build a single-oriented dwelling unit add up to $76,830. More here: https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/983a-Nov-2019-DC-and-NON-DC-rates.pdf It is important to note that with Bill 108, the Ford government has done away with development charges and have replaced them with “community benefits charge,” the impact of which on city budgets planners are still attempting to understand (2020). Further readings on planning movements: Fishman, R. (2016). “Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier.” In: Fainstein, S. S., & DeFilippis, J. (Eds.). (2015). Readings in planning theory. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 1-20. Marcuse, P. (2011). “The three historic currents of city planning.” The New Blackwell Companion to the City, 643-655. Friedmann, J. (1987). “Chapter 1: The Terrain of Planning Theory”. (pp. 19-48). In Planning in the Public Domain. From knowledge to action. Princeton University Press. Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design is a philosophy that spaces can be designed to deter crime. This is a philosophy promoted by police (see PDF link under “CPTED” heading: http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/crimeprevention/ & https://www.edmontonpolice.ca/crimeprevention/communitysafety/cpted). Instead of addressing wealth gaps, lacking social support networks, institutional oppression, and disenfranchisement of poor people, CPTED seeks to place the blame within a hypothetical part of humans that exploits and preys upon weakness. I link this to middle class anxieties around property ownership. This also works from a narrow understanding of “crime” and ignores the largest form of theft, which is wage theft (through unpaid overtime, lost breaks, etc.). Furthermore, it ignores the “invisible” crimes which happen in areas not thought to be “crime-ridden,” such as domestic abuse, tax evasion, etc. Before the Gardiner: https://www.blogto.com/city/2012/04/what_sunnyside_looked_like_before_the_gardiner_arrived/ About the development of New City Hall: https://www.blogto.com/city/2014/03/a_1960s_toronto_photo_extravaganza/ Canada: native-land.ca US: https://usfs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=fe311f69cb1d43558227d73bc34f3a32

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   4 Oct 2020

   Episode 3: Planning

   [EPISODE 3 NOTES] “Crown title is what remains once Aboriginal title has been subtracted from it”: https://redpaper.yellowheadinstitute.org/ Section 35 Rights: https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/constitution_act_1982_section_35/ Downtown secondary plan for Toronto: www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/966f-city-planning-tocore-opa406-attachment-1-schedule-5-downtown-plan.pdf Official Plan: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/planning-development/official-plan-guidelines/official-plan/ Blomley, Nicholas. (2004). Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property. New York: Routledge, 127. Tomiak, Julie. (2016). “Unsettling Ottawa: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Resistance, and the Politics of Scale.” Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 25:1, 8-21. Yiftachel, Oren. (1998). “Planning and social control: Exploring the dark side.” Journal of Planning Literature, 12:4, 395-406. Huitema, Marijke, Brian S. Osborne, and Michael Ripmeester. (2002). “Imagined Spaces, Constructed Boundaries, Conflicting Claims: A Legacy of Postcolonial Conflict in Eastern Ontario.” International Journal of Canadian Studies, 25, 87-112. King, Thomas. (2017). The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America. Penguin. Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation on Toronto Purchase: http://mncfn.ca/torontopurchase/ Daigle, Michelle. (2019). “The spectacle of reconciliation: On (the) unsettling responsibilities to Indigenous peoples in the academy.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 37(4), 703–721. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818824342 Resources mentioned: Access to Alanis Obomsawin’s films: https://www.nfb.ca/directors/alanis-obomsawin/ Vine Deloria Jr.’s Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto: https://www.oupress.com/books/9779813/custer-died-for-your-sins Leonie Sandercock: Towards Cosmopolis: Planning for Multicultural Cities (book) & “When Strangers Become Neighbours: Managing Cities of Difference,” Planning Theory & Practice, Vol. 1, No. 1, 13-30, 2000. (more: https://scarp.ubc.ca/people/leonie-sandercock) Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson, Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call (https://btlbooks.com/book/unsettling-canada) Laura Harjo’s Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity (https://www.ubcpress.ca/spiral-to-the-stars) Grassy Narrows: freegrassy.net 1492 Land Back Lane: https://ca.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund-1492-land-back-lane Donate to Unist’ot’en Camp to support the Wet’suwet’en: https://unistoten.camp/support-us/donate/ Yellowhead Institute: “Concerned Haudenosaunee Women Regarding Injunctions at 1492 Land Back Lane”: https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2020/08/24/statement-from-concerned-haudenosaunee-women-regarding-injunctions-at-1492-land-back-lane/ On the Six Nations injunction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx3JuGT1GkM Latest on LBL: https://www.aptnnews.ca/videos/the-latest-from-the-1492-land-back-lane-camp-in-caledonia/ About the Haldimand Tract: https://rabble.ca/toolkit/rabblepedia/haldimand-tract & https://www.alternativesjournal.ca/policy-and-politics/living-stolen-land 1492 Land Back Lane Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656879034481566

3. 

   4 Oct 2020

   Episode 2: History

   [EPISODE TWO NOTES] Centre for Aboriginal Student Services Land Acknowledgment video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNZi301-p8k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNZi301-p8k) Land back: http://4rsyouth.ca/land-back-what-do-we-mean/ Indian Treaties and Surrenders document: https://archive.org/details/indiantreaties0102cana/page/n173/mode/2up Land acknowledgements: uncovering an oral history of Tkaronto (Selena Mills and Sara Roque): https://locallove.ca/issues/land-acknowledgements-uncovering-an-oral-history-of-tkaronto/ (https://locallove.ca/issues/land-acknowledgements-uncovering-an-oral-history-of-tkaronto/) Native American Land Loss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZCvUroBpaE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZCvUroBpaE) Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson, Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call (https://btlbooks.com/book/unsettling-canada (https://btlbooks.com/book/unsettling-canada)) Stephen Marche “Canada’s Impossible Acknowledgment”: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/canadas-impossible-acknowledgment (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/canadas-impossible-acknowledgment) Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation on Toronto Purchase: http://mncfn.ca/torontopurchase/ (http://mncfn.ca/torontopurchase/) Aboriginal title: https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/aboriginal_title/ Yellowhead Institute “Land Back”: https://redpaper.yellowheadinstitute.org/ (https://redpaper.yellowheadinstitute.org/) Tŝilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia: https://canliiconnects.org/en/summaries/45546 (https://canliiconnects.org/en/summaries/45546) Principles respecting the Government of Canada's relationship with Indigenous peoples: https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/principles-principes.html (https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/principles-principes.html) UNDRIP: https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html (https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html) Dundas Street: https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/06/toronto-renaming-dundas-street/ (https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/06/toronto-renaming-dundas-street/) Toronto purchase: https://web.archive.org/web/20080510120931/http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/jarvisci/toronto/tor_buy.htm Toronto name: https://web.archive.org/web/20061016222541/http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/education/toronto_e.php (https://web.archive.org/web/20061016222541/http:/geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/education/toronto_e.php) Simcoe’s part in the name change: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-defining-moment-for-tkaronto/article18432992/ (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-defining-moment-for-tkaronto/article18432992/) Mnjikaning Fishing Weirs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMEJIlLlImI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMEJIlLlImI) About the Two Row: http://honorthetworow.org/learn-more/history/ (http://honorthetworow.org/learn-more/history/) About the Dish with One Spoon: https://nandogikendan.com/dish-with-one-spoon/ (https://nandogikendan.com/dish-with-one-spoon/) 1492 Land Back Lane: https://ca.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund-1492-land-back-lane (https://ca.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund-1492-land-back-lane) Donate to Unist’ot’en Camp to support the Wet’suwet’en: https://unistoten.camp/support-us/donate/ (https://unistoten.camp/support-us/donate/) About the Native Women’s Resource Center: http://nwrct.ca/get-involved/ Donate to the Native Women’s Resource Center: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/10351

4. 

   4 Oct 2020

   Episode 1: Introduction

   Hi! My name’s Emma. This podcast takes a critical look at land acknowledgments and attempts to understand what they’re saying, why they are done, and how planners, as land-based practitioners, can integrate the what and why into their work. I talk about the Canadian state, settler colonialism, capitalism, and treaties.

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