Desettlering As Re-Subjectification of the Settler Subject - Towards Alternative Traditions and Identity

This book offers an intervention into the process of decolonization through the re-subjectification of the settler subject. The authors draw on what Deleuze and Guattari call minor threads of philosophy, pedagogy, spirituality, and healing practices rooted in neglected lineages of European thought and ceremony.

List of contents

Introduction: Logics of Subjectification. 1. Desettlering. 2. Philosophy: Dismantling Colonial Logics and Providing Alternatives. 3. Intersections of Social Identity. 4. Political Activism and Common Reconciliation. 5. The University and the Settler Professor. 6. Desettlering Counseling and Therapy. 7. Spirituality: Lineages, Traditions, Ceremony, and Shamanism. 8. Desettlering Redux.

About the author

Kathleen S.G. Skott-Myhre is Professor of Psychology at the University of West Georgia. She is the author of Feminist Spirituality under Capitalism: Witches, Fairies and Nomads as well as the co-author of Writing the Family: Women, Auto-ethnography, and Family Work.
Hans A. Skott-Myhre is Professor in the Social Work and Human Services Department at Kennesaw State University. He is the author of Youth Subcultures as Creative Force: Creating New Spaces for Radical Youth Work, and Post-Capitalist Subjectivity in Literature and Anti-Psychiatry: Reconceptualizing the Self Beyond Capitalism.
Jeffrey Galvin Smith is a white-skinned Canadian with settler colonial privilege, born on the unceded lands of Stz'uminus First Nation, several generations dislocated from his ancestral lands (Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales). He works as an independent therapist, consultant, and educator, focusing on creative anti-colonial approaches to institutional analysis and critical well-being.
Scott Kouri is a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in Victoria, BC. His doctorate is in Human and Social Development from the University of Victoria.

Product details

• Authors: Scott Kouri, Kathleen S.G. Skott-Myhre, Kathleen S.g. (University of West Geo Skott-Myhre, Skott-Myhre Hans A., Jeffrey Galvin Smith
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032411132
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3241113-2
• No. of pages: 138
• Series: Explorations in Mental Health
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Colonialism & imperialism, Social, group or collective psychology, Colonialism and imperialism, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity