Skip to content

Booksellers & Trade Customers: Sign up for online bulk buying at trade.atlanticbooks.com for wholesale discounts

Booksellers: Create Account on our B2B Portal for wholesale discounts

Desettlering as Re-subjectification of the Settler Subject: Towards Alternative Traditions and Identity

by Kathleen S. G. Skott-Myhre , Hans A. Skott-Myhre , Jeffrey Galvin Smith
Save 35% Save 35%
Current price ₹3,735.00
Original price ₹5,746.00
Original price ₹5,746.00
Original price ₹5,746.00
(-35%)
₹3,735.00
Current price ₹3,735.00

Imported Edition - Ships in 12-14 Days

Free Shipping in India on orders above Rs. 500

Request Bulk Quantity Quote
+91
Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781032411132
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 138
  • Original Price: GBP 44.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 218 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Emigration & Immigration

This book offers an intervention into the process of decolonization through the re-subjectification of the settler subject. The authors draw on what Deleuze and Guattari call minor threads of philosophy, pedagogy, spirituality, and healing practices rooted in neglected lineages of European thought and ceremony. The book proposes a methodology for unontologizing the settler subject, which they term "desettlering." Rather than fetishizing indigenous theory and practice as a mode for resubjectifying settlers to facilitate land-based decolonization, it offers a fresh approach by looking toward alternative sets of traditions and identities. These alternatives are used to interrogate minoritarian European philosophies, practices, and beliefs, which the authors propose could be deployed to unontologize the settler within current historical conditions. Asserting that such a process is not volitional but a historical necessity, the book offers a novel and timely investigation into who settlers become if they intend to engage seriously in decolonization. It will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and researchers in psychological science, social psychology, counseling, philosophy, indigenous studies, and sociology.

Kathleen S.G. Skott-Myhre is Professor of Psychology at the University of West Georgia. She is the author of Feminist Spirituality under Capitalism: Witches, Fairies and Nomads as well as the co-author of Writing the Family: Women, Auto-ethnography, and Family Work.

Hans A. Skott-Myhre is Professor in the Social Work and Human Services Department at Kennesaw State University. He is the author of Youth Subcultures as Creative Force: Creating New Spaces for Radical Youth Work, and Post-Capitalist Subjectivity in Literature and Anti-Psychiatry: Reconceptualizing the Self Beyond Capitalism.

Jeffrey Galvin Smith is a white-skinned Canadian with settler colonial privilege, born on the unceded lands of Stz'uminus First Nation, several generations dislocated from his ancestral lands (Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales). He works as an independent therapist, consultant, and educator, focusing on creative anti-colonial approaches to institutional analysis and critical well-being.

Scott Kouri is a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in Victoria, BC. His doctorate is in Human and Social Development from the University of Victoria.

Trusted for over 49 years

Family Owned Company

Secure Payment

All Major Credit Cards/Debit Cards/UPI & More Accepted

New & Authentic Products

India's Largest Distributor

Need Support?

Whatsapp Us