Freda Huson is arrested on Wet'suwet'en Territory by RCMP enforcing an injunction sought by Coastal GasLink. Amber Bracken / The Narwhal

Policing Jurisdiction

By: Shiri Pasternak | Jurisdiction offers a rich framework for understanding the terrain of struggle upon which colonial theft is fought in Canada. In my work, I argue that while settler law is asserted as a universal system applied evenly within the boundaries of the nation state, it is in fact a politically and spatially contested claim against Indigenous laws of territorial belonging.

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