The Local Settler State: Local History, Narrative, and Settler Futurity

• In Event: 45.023 - Critical Inquiry of Space and Place: Counterhegemonic Pedagogies Under the Radar

Abstract

In order to emplace the white possessive logics (Moreton-Robinson, 2015) of the settler state operating in the local site of a high school’s college preparation program for Latinx youth, this paper examines the settler relations embedded within the identity-making narratives surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area town of Cedarville where the program is located. It examines the normalization of settler futurity that occurs via local historical sites, the stories they tell about who residents are via explanations of who came before them, and how their places of living came to be. This approach is used to deeply imbricate places, narratives, relations, and logics, local and broad, into a larger examination of settler colonial (re)production in relation to a racialized population.

Author

• Theresa Burruel Stone, Sonoma State University