Encountering settler colonialism in hydroelectric development at Southern Indian Lake

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dc.contributor.authorDjordjevic, Katarina
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeDesmarais, Annette (Environment and Geography)en_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeThorpe, Jocelyn (Women's and Gender Studies)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorPeyton, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-19T16:15:21Z
dc.date.available2023-04-19T16:15:21Z
dc.date.copyright2023-03-30
dc.date.issued2023-03-30
dc.date.submitted2023-03-30T20:15:27Zen_US
dc.degree.disciplineEnvironment and Geographyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis investigates the history and proceedings of the high-level diversion scheme at Southern Indian Lake. Though the scheme did not become a reality because the Progressive Conservative majority government who championed it dissolved before development began, its proceedings signified South Indian Lake’s first colonial encounter with regards to the Churchill River Diversion. Through the high-level diversion discourse, I argue that Manitoba’s Churchill River Diversion reproduces a social policy which creates Indigenous peoples as an Other and asserts settler dominance. It reproduces settler ideologies and fantasies of personhood, entitlement, and (dis)possession which are constitutive of colonial powers. Moreover, it reproduces hydropower as a nexus for colonial practices and ideologies which undermine Indigenous peoples and their land. Chapter One argues that the low-level diversion at Southern Indian Lake created profound negative environmental and socio-cultural impacts. It aims to place in sharp relief the arguments posited for the high-level scheme by its proponents. Chapter Two argues that Manitoba Hydro agents produced a government-supported narrative of urgency for the high-level diversion which circumvented social and environmental responsibilities towards Indigenous lands and Indigenous peoples. And Chapter Three argues that the Progressive Conservative majority government, of the time, embraced and reproduced technocratic and colonial ideologies to press for the high-level diversion. The Churchill River Diversion is a complex of colonial ideologies, government agents, engineers, and resisting Indigenous communities into a cemented structure which continues to alter hydrologies and humanities.en_US
dc.description.noteMay 2023en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of Manitoba, Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and Wa Ni Ska Tan Hydro Alliance.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/37285
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectSocial Impactsen_US
dc.subjectChurchill River Diversionen_US
dc.subjectSouth Indian Lakeen_US
dc.subjectHydropoweren_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental Impactsen_US
dc.subjectPolitics of Differenceen_US
dc.subjectHydrostructuresen_US
dc.titleEncountering settler colonialism in hydroelectric development at Southern Indian Lakeen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobayesen_US
oaire.awardTitleCanada Graduate Scholarship - Master’s (CGS M)en_US
oaire.awardURIhttps://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PG-CS/CGSM-BESCM_eng.aspen_US
project.funder.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13039/501100000155en_US
project.funder.nameSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canadaen_US
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