Unsettled Expectations: Uncertainty, Land and Settler Decolonization

What do conflicts about land rights tell us about Indigenous-settler relations and the challenges and possibilities of decolonization? In Unsettled Expectations, Eva Mackey argues that a critical analysis of present-day disputes overland, belonging and sovereignty will help us understand bow colonization is reproduced today and how to challenge it. Employing theoretical approaches from Indigenous and settler colonial studies, Mackey urges us to rethink the assumptions of. settler certainty that underpin current conflicts between settlers and Indigenous peoples and reveals settler privilege to be a doomed fantasy of entitlement.