{"product_id":"unsettling-mobility-mediating-mikmaw-sovereignty-in-post-contact-nova-scotia-9780816555390","title":"Unsettling Mobility: Mediating Mi'kmaw Sovereignty in Post-Contact Nova Scotia","description":"\u003cp\u003e Since contact, attempts by institutions such as the British Crown and the Catholic Church to assimilate indigenous peoples have served to mark those people as \"Other\" than the settler majority. In \u003ci\u003eUnsettling Mobility\u003c\/i\u003e, Michelle A. Leli?vre examines how mobility has complicated, disrupted, and--at times--served this contradiction at the core of the settler colonial project. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Drawing on archaeological, ethnographic, and archival fieldwork conducted with the Pictou Landing First Nation--one of thirteen Mi'kmaw communities in Nova Scotia--Leli?vre argues that, for the British Crown and the Catholic Church, mobility has been required not only for the settlement of the colony but also for the management and conversion of the Mi'kmaq. For the Mi'kmaq, their continued mobility has served as a demonstration of sovereignty over their ancestral lands and waters despite the encroachment of European settlers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnsettling Mobility\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the need for an anthropological theory of mobility that considers not only how people move from one place to another but also the values associated with such movements, and the sensual perceptions experienced by moving subjects. \u003ci\u003eUnsettling Mobility\u003c\/i\u003e argues that anthropologists, indigenous scholars, and policy makers must imagine settlement beyond sedentism. Rather, both mobile and sedentary practices, the narratives associated with those practices, and the embodied experiences of them contribute to how people make places--in other words, to how they settle. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnsettling Mobility\u003c\/i\u003e arrives at a moment when indigenous peoples in North America are increasingly using movement as a form of protest in ways that not only assert their political subjectivity but also remake the nature of that subjectivity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichelle A. Leli?vre is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and the American Studies Program at the College of William and Mary. She has published in \u003ci\u003eAnthropological Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Archaeological Science\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAnthropologica.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Arizona Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50904207524114,"sku":"9780816555390","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b02af2cf-f801-4d5d-9e54-5c4f918e024e.jpg?v=1738511089","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/unsettling-mobility-mediating-mikmaw-sovereignty-in-post-contact-nova-scotia-9780816555390","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}