2026 Neil Smith Lecture: Maoism Without Guarantees: Red Power Internationalism During Canada’s ‘Long Seventies’
The annual 2026 Neil Smith Lecture will be delivered by Glen Coulthard from the University of British Columbia on Tuesday 14th April at the University of St Andrews.
About 2026 Neil Smith Lecture: Maoism Without Guarantees: Red Power Internationalism During Canada’s ‘Long Seventies’
2026 Neil Smith Lecture: Glen Coulthard, University of British Columbia
Maoism without guarantees: red power internationalism during Canada's 'Long Seventies'
University of St Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development
This lecture will provide a reconstructed history of Red Power radicalisation and Indigenous-Marxist cross-fertilisation during Canada's ‘long seventies', examining the political work undertaken by numerous Red Power activists and organisations from 1967 to 1982.
Glen Coulthard, of the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia, argues that Indigenous political organising and theory building during this period borrowed substantively and productively from a Third World-adapted Marxism which provided an appealing international language of political contestation that they not only inherited but sought to radically transform through a critical engagement with their own cultural traditions and land-based struggles.
Not unlike many radicalised communities of colour during this period, these activists molded and adapted the insights they gleaned from Third World Marxism abroad into their own critiques of racial capitalism, patriarchy and internal colonialism at home.
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