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64. Debunking the “Peacekeeper” Myth: Canada is Imperialist, Too w. Tyler Shipley
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In this episode, Mexie talks with author and professor, Tyler Shipley, about Canada’s dismaying place in the world. Tyler is the author of Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination, where he details how Canada’s genocidal relationship with Indigenous peoples has carried into imperialist aggression. Spoiler alert: we aren’t the good guys.
Sources and Links
* Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/canada-in-the-world * Twitter: https://twitter.com/canadainthewrld
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F1: [MUSIC] How can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet?
F2: There’s an us before the wound, there’s an us before oppression, and to me pleasure is the way that we tap down into that.
F3: We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
MEXIE: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Vegan Vanguard. It’s Mexie and today we have one of my super-cool, super-brilliant friends and comrades on the show, Tyler Shipley. He wrote the book Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination which is just absolutely fantastic, packed, packed full of info. I would recommend this to everyone. Today we’re gonna be busting that myth that Canada is just a peacekeeping force in the world, that we are not the aggressors, we are not the imperialists, because as Tyler’s book very aptly shows, that is so far from being true. There are actually times in regime change operations and just imperialist aggressive wars where Canada is even more the aggressor than the United States which I’m not sure that people know about, but people should know about it.
So, I hope you all enjoy this conversation. Before we dive into it, I want to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts to our new patrons this month. Thank you to Isaiah, TJ, Hamza, and Mica or Mica for your very generous donations. If you like what we do here, if you get something from it and you want us to keep making more, please consider supporting us monthly on Patreon at patreon.com/veganvanguard. You can also give us a one-time tip or donation via PayPal on our website which is veganvanguardpodcast.com and/or please share this episode to amplify the message, and please give us those ratings and reviews on iTunes. I love reading them. Thank you so much to everyone who has given us five stars and written a review. So, without further ado, let’s get into the interview with Tyler Shipley.
TYLER: [MUSIC] So yeah, my name is Tyler Shipley. The book is called Canada in the World and it’s an attempt to I guess situate Canada within the story of colonial and imperial powers in the world. So many people in Canada don’t understand or don’t want to understand that Canada is every bit a colonial and imperial power the way the United States is, albeit on a smaller scale and with some minor different details. But I think that for a really long time this has been something that bothered me, and then as I sort of started doing the academic work to back it up, it was like I became more and more — I just felt more and more like I needed to articulate in detail the — this part of Canada’s history.
So yeah,
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In this episode, Mexie talks with author and professor, Tyler Shipley, about Canada’s dismaying place in the world. Tyler is the author of Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination, where he details how Canada’s genocidal relationship with Indigenous peoples has carried into imperialist aggression. Spoiler alert: we aren’t the good guys.
Sources and Links
* Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/canada-in-the-world * Twitter: https://twitter.com/canadainthewrld
Support the Show
Transcript
F1: [MUSIC] How can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet?
F2: There’s an us before the wound, there’s an us before oppression, and to me pleasure is the way that we tap down into that.
F3: We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
MEXIE: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Vegan Vanguard. It’s Mexie and today we have one of my super-cool, super-brilliant friends and comrades on the show, Tyler Shipley. He wrote the book Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination which is just absolutely fantastic, packed, packed full of info. I would recommend this to everyone. Today we’re gonna be busting that myth that Canada is just a peacekeeping force in the world, that we are not the aggressors, we are not the imperialists, because as Tyler’s book very aptly shows, that is so far from being true. There are actually times in regime change operations and just imperialist aggressive wars where Canada is even more the aggressor than the United States which I’m not sure that people know about, but people should know about it.
So, I hope you all enjoy this conversation. Before we dive into it, I want to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts to our new patrons this month. Thank you to Isaiah, TJ, Hamza, and Mica or Mica for your very generous donations. If you like what we do here, if you get something from it and you want us to keep making more, please consider supporting us monthly on Patreon at patreon.com/veganvanguard. You can also give us a one-time tip or donation via PayPal on our website which is veganvanguardpodcast.com and/or please share this episode to amplify the message, and please give us those ratings and reviews on iTunes. I love reading them. Thank you so much to everyone who has given us five stars and written a review. So, without further ado, let’s get into the interview with Tyler Shipley.
TYLER: [MUSIC] So yeah, my name is Tyler Shipley. The book is called Canada in the World and it’s an attempt to I guess situate Canada within the story of colonial and imperial powers in the world. So many people in Canada don’t understand or don’t want to understand that Canada is every bit a colonial and imperial power the way the United States is, albeit on a smaller scale and with some minor different details. But I think that for a really long time this has been something that bothered me, and then as I sort of started doing the academic work to back it up, it was like I became more and more — I just felt more and more like I needed to articulate in detail the — this part of Canada’s history.
So yeah,