Introduction

This special issue of Settler Colonial Studies collects papers presented on the theme of ‘Pathways of Settler Decolonization’ at Canada’s 2015 Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences. The authors in this volume examine pathways of settler decolonization, analyzing the uneven terrain of settler efforts and experiences through the lenses of SCT, Indigenous scholars and grassroots communities, and specific disciplinary analyses. Chris Hiller’s ‘Tracing the Spirals of Unsettlement’ proposes to unsettle settler pedagogies, taking spatial unsettling as fundamental to disrupting the reproduction of colonial narratives. J. M. Bacon, in ‘A Lot of Catching Up’, explores the terrain of emotions in social justice work in settler colonial contexts. Katie Boudreau Morris writes ‘Decolonizing Solidarity’ from a complex location comprising Acadian-Métis, Irish and Lebanese identities. Liz Carlson’s ‘Anti-Colonial Methodologies’ examines the question of what an anti-colonial methodology would look like in taking seriously the responsibility for settler scholars to support Indigenous resurgence, land recovery and sovereignty.