Liana MacDonald

What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a future with a different, or wider, set of priorities. History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all across the globe, nations have begun to debate who, how, and...

In this incisive BWB Text, Liana MacDonald exposes how settler colonialism is sustained by the places we move through, the institutions we work in, and the stories we tell. Deconstructing the settler fantasy, she reveals how a settler understanding of race, land, and power is made to seem natural, even inevitable. Well-meaning efforts to challenge it can reinforce the very...