Desettlering as Re-subjectification of the Settler Subject

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.

Introduction: Logics of Subjectification. 1. Desettlering. 2. Philosophy: Dismantling Colonial Logics and Providing Alternatives. 3. Intersections of Social Identity. 4. Political Activism and Common Reconciliation. 5. The University and the Settler Professor. 6. Desettlering Counseling and Therapy. 7. Spirituality: Lineages, Traditions, Ceremony, and Shamanism. 8. Desettlering Redux.