Dwelling on the Margins of Empire

Lisa Binkley is Assistant Professor in material culture and Indigenous and settler women’s histories at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Her research considers quilts and other textiles as points of intimate intercultural contact between settler and Indigenous women in nineteenth-century Canada. Katherine Crooks is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada. Her work considers the intersection of settler and Indigenous women’s histories in northern Canadian contexts. Her research explores how settler and Indigenous women’s involvement in American exploratory expeditions to the Arctic between 1890 and 1940 shaped and were shaped by their understandings of home.

Introduction: Finding Home at the Margins of Colonial Encounter, Lisa Binkley and Katherine Crooks (Dalhousie University and Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada)
Part I: Travel and Movement in Histories of Home
1. Fur Trade Forts and Military Camps: The Askin Daughters Creating Home in the British Empire, Cecilia Morgan (University of Toronto, Canada)
2. Meeting at “the Outermost Limit of the World”: Arctic Exploration as Encounter Between Inuit and non-Inuit Geographies of Home, Katherine Crooks (Dalhousie University, Canada)
3. Along the Outaouais: The Métis ‘Home’land beyond the Red River, Lisa Binkley (Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada)
Part II: Politicizing the Domestic Sphere
4. In the Name of the Home: The Reconstruction of Nineteenth-Century America, Nicole Martin (American National Park Service)
5. As Good as Any Place at Home: Eating American in Colonial Manila, 1898-1913, Alana Toulin (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Part III: Bringing Colonial Violence Home
6. The Concept of Home: Looking through the Lens of Aboriginal Exemption in Australia, Judi Wickes and Katherine Ellinghaus (La Trobe University, Australia)
7. This is Where We Sprouted: Centralization and the Mi’kmaw Sense of Home, Trina Roache (University of King’s College, Canada)
8. The Intimate Reach of Settler Colonialism in Post-War Inuit Nunangat: Housing Provision, Settler Concepts of Home, Motherhood, and the Moral Family, Christina Goldhar and Julia Christensen (Memorial University, Canada)
9. Recording Our Truth: Documenting Changing Understandings of Home to Understand the Existing Housing Emergency in Nishnawbe Aski Nation Territory, Jeffrey Herskovits, Shelagh McCartney, Courtney Kaupp, Michael McKay and Ashley Atatise (X University and Nishnawbe Aski Nation Housing Strategy, Canada)
Conclusion: Marginal Perspectives, Lisa Binkley and Katherine Crooks (Dalhousie University and Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada)