This thesis argues that the colonial ruling class developed its first White Australia policy in 1888, creating most of the precedents for the federal legislation of 1901. White Australia was central to the making of the Australian working class, to the shaping of Australian nationalism, and the development of federal political institutions. It has long been understood as a product of labour movement mobilising, but this thesis rejects that approach, arguing that the labour movement lacked the power to impose such a fundamental national policy, and that the key decisions which led to White Australia were demonstrably not products of labour movement action. ¶ It finds three great ruling class agendas behind the decisions to exclude Chinese immigrants, and severely limit the use of indentured “coloured labour”. Chinese people were seen as a strategic threat to Anglo-Australian control of the continent, and this fear was sharpened in the mid-1880s when China was seen as a rising military power, and a necessary ally for Britain in its global rivalry with Russia. The second ruling class agenda was the building of a modern industrial economy, which might be threatened by industries resting on indentured labour in the north. The third agenda was the desire to construct an homogenous people, which was seen as necessary for containing social discontent and allowing “free institutions”, such as parliamentary democracy. ¶ These agendas, and the ruling class interests behind them, challenged other major ruling class interests and ideologies. The result was a series of dilemmas and conflicts within the ruling class, and the resolution of these moved the colonial governments towards the White Australia policy of 1901. The thesis therefore describes the conflict over the use of Pacific Islanders by pastoralists in Queensland, the campaign for indentured Indian labour by sugar planters and the radical strategy of submerging this into a campaign for North Queensland separation, and the strike and anti-Chinese campaign in opposition to the use of Chinese workers by the Australasian Steam Navigation Company in 1878. The first White Australia policy of 1888 was the outcome of three separate struggles by the majority of the Anglo-Australian ruling class—to narrowly restrict the use of indentured labour in Queensland, to assert the right of the colonies to decide their collective immigration policies independently of Britain, and to force South Australia to accept the end of Chinese immigration into its Northern Territory. The dominant elements in the ruling class had already agreed that any serious move towards federation was to be conditional on the building of a white, predominantly British, population across the whole continent, and in 1888 they imposed that policy on their own societies and the British government.

Au-dessus d’une certaine température appelée température de trouble (Tc), les solutions aqueuses de la majorité des tensioactifs non ioniques polyéthoxylés se séparent en deux phases liquides en équilibre : la phase diluée et le coacervat. Grâce à la solubilisation micellaire de composés hydrophobes, amphiphiles ou même ioniques et à leur concentration dans le (faible) volume de coacervat, une extraction à deux phases aqueuses (extraction par point de trouble ou par coacervat)peut être réalisée et appliquée à des opérations de dépollution d'effluents industriels ou à la concentration ou encore à la séparation de substances à haute valeur ajoutée. L’extraction par point de trouble (CPE) est une technique relativement simple et écologique pour l'élimination des matières toxiques de l'environnement, qui s’est avérée efficace dans le traitement de divers contaminants (organiques et inorganiques dissous ou dispersés) de l’eau. Une première partie de cette thèse consiste à rappeler quelques notions sur la pollution industrielle des eaux et quelques généralités sur les tensioactifs (TA) et sur l’extraction liquide-liquide. Elle est suivie d’une description des réactifs, du matériel et des méthodes utilisées au cours de ce travail, comme préliminaire à la mise au point d'un procédé d'extraction par coacervat. Quelques propriétés thermodynamiques superficielles (adsorption) et d’association (micellisation) de deux tensioactifs non ioniques industriels (le Simulsol NW342 et le Tergitol 15-S-7) ont été déterminées. Les courbes de démixtion des systèmes binaires (eau/TA) ainsi que l’effet de divers additifs (sel, composés organiques, tensioactifs ioniques) sur le point de trouble sont étudiés. Le diagramme isotherme du système ternaire (eau/TA/ phénol) est tracé. Une application du modèle de Flory-Huggins-Rupert pour la prédiction des courbes de démixtion des tensioactifs non ioniques a été expérimentée. L’extraction à un seul contact, à partir de solutions modèles, utilise des alcools oxo éthoxylés biodégradables (Simulsol NW342 et Tergitol 15-S-7) pour des polluants organiques dissous (phénol, 1-phényléthanol et alcool benzylique) et un mélange de tensioactifs non ionique (Simulsol NW342) et ionique (SDS ou CTAB) pour des polluants métalliques solubles (plomb(II), molybdène(VI)). On cherche le meilleur compromis entre le pourcentage de soluté extrait (E%),la fraction volumique du coacervat (фv), et les pourcentages de soluté et de tensioactif restants dans la phase diluée (Xs,d et XTA, d), en utilisant un plan d'expériences de type Scheffé et un lissage empirique des courbes. Les résultats sont très prometteurs car les pourcentages d’extraction varient de 60 à 95% pour les solutés organiques et de 40 à 85% pour les solutés métalliques, les meilleures performances étant obtenues pour le phénol et le plomb. D’autre part, il est possible, en jouant sur le pH, d’améliorer les séparations et de recycler le tensioactif après désextraction des solutés. Les cinétiques d’extraction, de séparation et de clarification ont été aussi étudiées pour une meilleure compréhension de ces systèmes. Enfin, l’extraction continue du phénol à partir du mélange eau/4%Simulsol NW342/0,2%phénol (mass.) a été testée sur deux appareillages (extracteur centrifuge et mélangeurdécanteur)thermostatés. Dans un procédé multi-étagé à courants croisés sur un mélangeur-décanteur, on arrive à réduire la concentration du phénol à moins de 0,3ppm (concentration limite selon la législation) après six étages. / Above a certain temperature called cloud point (Tc), aqueous solutions of most nonionic polyethoxylated surfactants separate into two liquid phases in equilibrium: the dilute phase and the coacervate. Thanks to the micellar solubilization of hydrophobic, amphiphilic or even ionic compounds and their concentration in the low volume of coacervate, two-aqueous phase extraction (cloud-point or coacervate extraction) can be performed and applied to the removal of pollutants from aqueous industrial effluents or to the concentration or even separation of high added-value chemicals. Cloud point extraction (CPE) is a relatively simple and ecologically-safe technique for the removal of toxic materials from the environment; this process has proved efficient in treating water for various contaminants including dissolved or dispersed organic and inorganic chemicals. The first part of this thesis consists of recalling some notions on industrial wastewater, some generalities about surfactants (TA) and liquid-liquid extraction, followed by a description of all the reagents, materials and methods used in this work as a preliminary study of a coacervate extraction process. Some surface thermodynamic (adsorption) and association (micellization) properties of two industrial nonionic surfactants (Simulsol NW342 and Tergitol 15-S-7) were determined. The cloud point curves of water /TA binary systems are drawn and the effect of various additives (salt, organic compounds, ionic surfactants) on the cloud point is studied. The isothermal diagram of a water/TA/phenol ternary system is drawn. An application of the Flory-Huggins-Rupert model for the prediction of cloud point curves of nonionic surfactants is discussed. Single contact extraction, from model solutions, uses biodegradable polyethoxylated nonionic surfactants (Simulsol NW342 and Tergitol 15-S-7) for dissolved organic pollutants (phenol, 1-phenylethanol and benzyl alcohol) and mixed micelles of nonionic (Simulsol NW342) and ionic (SDS, CTAB) surfactants for soluble electolytes (lead (II), molybdenum (VI)). We search for the best compromise between the percentage of solute extracted (E%), the coacervate volume fraction (фc) and the percentages of solute and surfactant remaining in the dilute phase (Xs,d and XTA,d), These experimental results are subject to an empirical smoothing through a Scheffé-type experimental design, and an empirical curve fitting procedure. The results are very promising, due to the percentage of solute extracted, which varies between 60 and 95% for organic solutes and from 40 to 85% for electrolytes, the best performances being obtained for phenol and lead. On the other hand, it is possible, by adjusting pH, to improve the separation and recycle the surfactant after back-extraction. The kinetics of extraction yield and phase separation and clarification were also investigated for a better understanding of these systems. Finally, the continuous extraction of phenol from a model solution (water/4wt.% Simulsol NW342/0.2wt.% phenol) on two thermostated equipments (a centrifugal extractor and a mixer-settler) was attempted. In a multi-stage process on a cross-current mixer-settler, the concentration of residual phenol in the dilute phase could be reduced to less than 0.3 ppm (concentration allowed by standard European regulations) after six stages.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:01:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 WillaciEFJ.pdf: 1499759 bytes, checksum: 03aff567e782194c97d56cdcac63888c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-12-19 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The aim of this work is to use a new technology in the treatment of produced wastewaters from oil industry. An unit for treat produced waters called UTMDIF, was designed, installed and operated in an industrial plant for treatment of effluents from oil industry. This unit operates by means of the method of separation of phase inversion and can become a promising alternative to solve the problem of oil/water separation. This method constitutes the basis of the working of a new design of mixersettler of vertical configuration which occupies small surface area. The last characteristic becomes specially important when there is limitation on the lay-out of the plant, for example, over maritime platforms to explore oil. This equipment in a semi-industrial scale treats produced wastewaters contaminated with oil at low concentrations (ranging from 30 to 150 mg/L) and throughputs of 320 m3/d (47,4 m3 m-2 h-1). Good results were obtained in oil/water separation which leads to the necessary specification to discharge those wastewaters. Besides, the non dependence of the efficiency of separation in spite of the salinity of the medium becomes the equipment an attractive new technology to treat wastewaters containing oil at low concentrations / Este trabalho tem por objetivo utilizar uma nova tecnologia no tratamento de ?guas produzidas da ind?stria do petr?leo. Uma Unidade de Tratamento de ?guas Produzidas, denominada UT-MDIF, foi projetada, instalada e operou dentro de uma planta industrial de tratamento de efluentes de petr?leo. Esta Unidade de Tratamento piloto utiliza o m?todo de separa??o ? invers?o de fases e pode se tornar numa alternativa promissora para resolver o problema de separa??o ?leo/?gua. Este m?todo constitui a base do funcionamento de um novo modelo de misturador-decantador de configura??o vertical e que ocupa pequena ?rea superficial. Esta ?ltima caracter?stica se torna especialmente importante, quando existe limita??o de espa?o no lay-out da planta industrial, por exemplo, uma plataforma mar?tima para explora??o de petr?leo. Este equipamento em escala semi-industrial trata ?guas produzidas contaminadas com petr?leo em baixas concentra??es da ordem de 30 a 150 mg/L e vaz?es efetivas de 320 m3/d (47,4m3m-2h-1). Os bons resultados na separa??o ?leo/?gua, obtendo-se a especifica??o necess?ria para descarte, associado ? n?o depend?ncia da efici?ncia de separa??o face ? salinidade do meio, podem tornar o equipamento uma nova tecnologia no tratamento de ?guas contaminadas com ?leo a baixas concentra??es

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:01:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 NorbertoAM_TESE.pdf: 2336588 bytes, checksum: 940ad1b0befe8c431d2e9fb731a885b6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-09-30 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / This work aims to determine a better methodology to help predicting some operational parameters to a new design of mixer-settler on treating wastewater produced by petroleum industry, called MDIF (Misturador-Decantador ? Invers?o de Fases/ Mixer-Settler based on Phase Inversion MSPI). The data from this research were obtained from the wastewater treatment unit, called MSPI-TU, installed on a wastewater treatment plant (WTP) of PETROBRAS/UO-RNCE. The importance in determining the better methodology to predict the results of separation and extraction efficiency of the equipment, contributes significantly to determine the optimum operating variables for the control of the unit. The study was based on a comparison among the experimental efficiency (E) obtained by operating MSPI-TU, the efficiency obtained by experimental design equation (Eplan) from the software Statistica Experimental Design? (version 7.0), and the other obtained from a modeling equation based on a dimensional analysis (Ecalc). The results shows that the experimental design equation gives a good prediction of the unit efficiencies with better data reliability, regarding to the condition before a run operation. The average deviation between the proposed by statistic planning model equation and experimental data was 0.13%. On the other hand, the efficiency calculated by the equation which represents the dimensional analysis, may result on important relative deviations (up 70%). Thus, the experimental design is confirmed as a reliable tool, with regard the experimental data processing of the MSPI-TU / Este trabalho objetiva determinar a melhor metodologia para auxiliar na predi??o de vari?veis operacionais de um novo design de misturador-decantador aplicado ao tratamento de ?guas produzidas da ind?stria do petr?leo, que vem sendo denominado de MDIF (Misturador-Decantador ? Invers?o de Fases). Os dados utilizados neste estudo foram obtidos da Unidade de Tratamento de ?guas produzidas, denominada de UT-MDIF, que se encontra instalada em uma das esta??es de tratamento de efluentes (ETE) da PETROBRAS/UORNCE. A import?ncia em determinar a melhor metodologia que permita a predi??o dos resultados das efici?ncias de separa??o e extra??o do equipamento, contribui de forma significativa para otimiza??o das vari?veis operacionais para o controle da unidade. O estudo se baseou na compara??o dos resultados das efici?ncias experimentais (E) obtidas pela UTMDIF, com os resultados das efici?ncias obtidas pela equa??o do modelo do planejamento estat?stico (Eplan), gerado pelo programa Statistica Experimental Design? (vers?o 7.0), e com a utiliza??o de uma equa??o utilizando modelagem com base em an?lise dimensional (Ecalc). Os resultados mostram que a equa??o decorrente do planejamento estat?stico ? capaz de predizer, com boa aproxima??o, os resultados de efici?ncia a serem obtidos com a unidade, possibilitando uma melhor confiabilidade dos dados, no que se refere ? condi??o que antecede uma corrida operacional. O desvio m?dio entre a equa??o proposta e os dados experimentais ? de 0,13%. Por outro lado, a efici?ncia calculada pela equa??o da an?lise dimensional pode apresentar desvios relativos importantes (at? 70%). Desta forma, o planejamento estat?stico experimental se confirma como sendo uma ferramenta confi?vel, no que se refere ao tratamento dos dados experimentais da UT-MDIF

Canada 150, or the sesquicentennial anniversary of Confederation, celebrates a nation-state that can be described as “settler colonial” in relation to Indigenous peoples. This thesis brings a Critical Religion and Critical Discourse Analysis methodology into conversation with Settler Colonial and Indigenous Studies to ask: how is Canadian settler colonial sovereignty enacted, and how do Indigenous peoples perform challenges to that sovereignty? The parliamentary mace and the eagle feather are conceptualized as emblematic and condensed metaphors, or metonyms, that assert and represent Canadian and Indigenous sovereignties. As a settler colonial sovereignty, established and naturalized partially through discourses on religion, Canadian sovereignty requires the displacement of Indigenous sovereignty. In events from 1990 to 2017, Indigenous people wielding eagle feathers disrupt Canadian governance and challenge the legitimacy of Canadian sovereignty. Indigenous sovereignty is (re)asserted as identity-based, oppositional, and spiritualized. Discourses on Indigenous sovereignty and spirituality provide categories and concepts through which Indigenous resistance occurs within Canada.

Ce mémoire se penche sur un sujet d’actualité qui fait l’objet de polémiques ponctuelles au Québec depuis 2006 : La Romaine, la construction d’un complexe hydroélectrique qui harnache l’une des dernières grandes rivières sauvages de la province. Spécifiquement, cette étude s’intéresse à des discours institutionnels québécois et innus sur ce projet. L’analyse s’appuie sur des mémoires déposés à la consultation menée en 2008 par le Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE). Faisant converser les études de l’ethnicité, le concept de colonialisme d’occupation blanche [settler colonialism] et les études culturelles, ce mémoire jette de nouvelles lumières sur le rôle des dispositifs du développement durable et des grands barrages en contexte colonial. En premier lieu, cette recherche présente une trame historique sur le renouveau de la relation entre peuples innu et québécois centrée, tour à tour, sur l’agriculture, l’exploitation forestière et les grands barrages. L’objectif est d’exposer comment ce rapport interethnique, en constante mutation, a été marqué par différents modes d’aménagement du territoire. Dans un deuxième temps, ce portrait nous amène à examiner la conjoncture sociopolitique d’où émerge la Romaine. Suivant cette contextualisation, l’application d’une grille d’analyse des débats sociotechniques permet de découvrir les manières dont le développement durable module les systèmes de représentations collectives à l’égard des rapports interethniques et des régimes énergétiques contemporains. Cette analyse expose, simultanément, la régénérescence d’un imaginaire d’occupation colonial québécois et l’émergence de contre-discours innus. Ultimement, cette recherche se conclut en interrogeant les termes et possibilités d’un développement durable décolonial. / The event on which this thesis aims its focus is a topic of controversy in Quebec since 2006 : la Romaine, a hydroelectric complex involving the harnessing of one of the last great wild rivers in the province. Specifically, this study examines the new Innu and Quebecer institutional discourses on this project. The analysis takes as material of study the reports submitted to the consultation conducted in 2008 by the Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE). Establishing a dialogue between ethnic studies, the concept of white settler colonialism and cultural studies, this paper sheds light on the role of the apparatus of sustainable development and of great dams in a colonial context. First, this research provides an historical framework on the renewal of the relationship between Quebec’s and Innu’s people centred, in turn, on agriculture, logging and large dams. The goal is to explain how this interethnic relationship, in constant metamorphosis, has been marked by different models of settling the territory. Secondly, this picture leads us to examine the socio-political situation from which emerges la Romaine. Following this contextualization, the application of a socio-technical grid of analysis allows to discover the ways in which sustainable development modulates the collective systems of representations in regards to interethnic relations and contemporary energetic regimes. This analysis expose simultaneously the regeneration of a settler’s imaginary for the Quebecers and the emergence of counter-discourses for the Innus. Ultimately, this research concluded by questioning the terms and possibilities of a decolonial sustainable development.

This thesis mobilizes the concept of “colonial entanglement” to emphasize the deep complexity and unpredictability of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships within what is now known as the Banff-Bow Valley. Responding to various literatures—including Indigenous Studies, Settler Colonial Studies, Political Theory, and Canadian Politics—I posit that the concept of colonial entanglements offers a parallax view of contexts, such as the Banff-Bow Valley, and events like the Buffalo Reintroduction Project. Not only does such a concept reveal how Indigenous nations— both human and non-human—are targeted by the racializing and gendered entanglements of colonizing regimes that seek to break up and replace them, but it also shows how these nations continue to persist and resist despite colonizing efforts to achieve otherwise. In other words, colonial entanglements compel one to also consider how nations like the Ĩyãħé Nakoda also exert influence on other Indigenous and non-Indigenous life in the Banff-Bow Valley—albeit, in different ways and to different degrees. After unpacking the concept in the first chapter, I use colonial entanglement to show how colonizing regimes and their expansionist modes of relationship react to the Indigenous nations they become entangled with. Using the signing of Treaty 7 and the establishment of a national park in Banff, I reveal how the Canadian state seeks to erect colonizing regimes of property that cater to capital as they transit the Banff-Bow Valley by ‘breaking up’ and ‘breaking from’ Indigenous nations and their expansive modes of relationship. Next, I consider how such reactionary violence is continually justified and legitimated through the articulation and reiteration of state of nature fictions that rely on notions of wilderness and tropes of Indigeneity to delegitimize the enduring presence of Indigenous nations. Specifically, I look at the Indian Act, the prohibition of hunting in the Park, and the Banff Indian Days festival to show how state of nature fictions articulate a supposed transition from a “past state of nature” to a contemporary “state of (dis)possession” entangled with white supremacist and heteropatriarchal forms of power. In doing so, these fictions make and reproduce colonial subjects who buy into and support colonizing violence and breakage that disproportionately targets those Indigenous to place. In the final chapter, I turn to focus on the Buffalo Reintroduction Project. Here, I consider how the project presents contemporary opportunities for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to support and/or disrupt colonizing states of (dis)possession and the state of nature fictions they rely on, while also considering the project’s potential for a politics oriented towards expansive modes of relationship revolving around principles of decolonization and anti-colonial internationalism. / Graduate

This paper studies two former treaty ports, Kobe in Japan and Incheon (Chemulpo) in South Korea following the scholarship of Jennifer Robinson (2006) in building social scientific knowledge upon case studies of the so-called "ordinary cities". Using a "bricolage" of sub-fields of social anthropology and research techniques, the study focuses on the built remnants from the colonial period in the two cities and their perceived image to further develop on ethnographies of sensescapes and post-colonialism. The present study is an addition to the scholarship of urban anthropology through tracing out the formations of personal images of a city among their inhabitants, emic perceptions of "danger" and "oldness" in relation to built environments in Japan and South Korea and discussing the relevance of post-colonial sensibilities for place image creation. Keywords: urban anthropology, socio-cultural anthropology, collective memory, city branding, city image, post-colonialism, settler urban heritage, Japan, South Korea

Une certaine tendance se dessine, au sein de moult mouvements sociaux, territoires ou collectifs en lutte, de même que dans plusieurs champs des sciences sociales et, dans une certaine mesure, dans la culture populaire, quant à la nécessité de repenser les rapports aux territoires et au vivant (et plus généralement le rapport à la terre). En opposition aux diktats productivistes et extractivistes du libéralisme colonial, nombreuses sont celles qui invoquent la nécessité d’un habiter renouvelé, arrimé aux territoires : d’un habiter en prise sur un entour et en phase avec celui-ci. Bien que fécondes à de nombreux égards, de telles formes d’habitabilité ne peuvent rester imperméables aux critiques anticoloniales ou décoloniales qui soulignent comment un strict rapport innocent ou romantique à un territoire colonisé implique une reproduction de la colonialité. Dans cette thèse, j’étudie cette problématique générale telle qu’elle se déploie dans la colonie de peuplement québécoise contemporaine. Dans chaque chapitre, on aura affaire à un exemple (ou à une composition d’exemples apparentés, liés par un certain thème) dont il s’agira de problématiser à la fois les dimensions actuelles (historicité, contexte socioculturel, forces politiques en présence, discours et pratiques) et virtuelles (tendances plus abstraites se rapportant à un certain niveau de généralisation). On abordera ainsi : 1) le bréviaire du métissage, de la rencontre, des contacts ou alliances, bréviaire « horizontal » et aplanissant fortement mobilisé par la société franco-descendante pour faire sens de ses rapports aux Premiers Peuples et pour inscrire sa trajectoire en sol américain; 2) diverses conceptions du lien politique qui, chacune à leur façon, sous-tendent un refus total et une compréhension de l’action et de la collectivité politiques qui ne soit pas basée sur des rapports communautaires ou identitaires; 3) la figure du colon québécois, telle qu’elle émerge et se cristallise pendant la vague néonationaliste radicale des années 1960-1970; 4) les possibles d’un habiter anticolonial, notamment via un déplacement de la question du fondement et de l’origine. Chaque chapitre pourrait donc être compris comme offrant un plan de coupe de la problématique générale, tout en lui ajoutant des dimensions concrètes et matérielles. Somme toute, aucun dénouement thétique imposant ne doit être attendu; cette thèse est plutôt animée par une exigence : poser un problème, en abordant à la fois les considérations actuelles et virtuelles, en tentant d’ajouter de la perspective et en ravivant les aspérités du réel lui donnant de la complexité et de la texture. Ainsi, cette thèse prend avant tout la forme d’un essai visant à élaborer et approfondir la problématique coloniale (d’abord depuis ses implications identitaires et territoriales), de manière à ce que des prises sur celle-ci se consolident; de manière à ce que, confrontés à ses conditions, répercussions et effets souvent paradoxaux, nous, colons, puissions et souhaitions initier une rupture radicale. / There is an emerging trend in social movements, territories and collectives in struggle, as well as in several fields of social sciences and to a certain extent in popular culture. It concerns the need to rethink relationships to the land and the living, and more generally relationships to the earth. In opposition to the productivist and extractivist diktats of colonial liberalism, many invoke the need for a renewed way of dwelling, anchored in the land: a dwelling in touch and in phase with its milieu. Although fruitful in many respects, such forms of dwelling cannot remain impervious to anti-colonial or decolonial critiques, which underline the way in which innocent or romantic relationships to colonized territories entail a reproduction of coloniality. This thesis studies this general problematic as it unfolds in the contemporary Quebec settlement colony. Each chapter deals with an example (or a composition of related examples), problematizing both its actual dimensions (historicity, socio-cultural context, political forces, discourses and practices) and its virtual dimensions (more abstract tendencies relating to a certain level of generalization). An account is developed that includes : 1) the breviary of miscegenation, contacts and alliances strongly mobilized by Franco-descendant society in a "horizontal" and flattening manner to make sense of its relationships with Indigenous peoples and to inscribe its trajectory on the American land; 2) various conceptions of the political action which, each in their own way, underlie a total refusal and a conception of the collective formation not based on communitarian nor identitarian relationships; 3) the figure of the « colon » as it emerges within the radical neo-nationalist wave of the 1960s and 1970s; 4) the possibilities of an anticolonial dwelling, in particular through a shift in the question of foundation and origin. Each chapter can be understood as offering a cross-section of the general problematic, while adding concrete and material dimensions to it. No imposing thetic outcome is aimed for. Instead, the thesis is driven by a requirement: to expose and investigate a problem by addressing both its actual and virtual dimensions, attempting to add perspective reviving the roughness of the real, adding complexity and texture to it. The thesis takes the form of an essay aiming to elaborate and deepen the colonial problem (starting from its identitarian and territorial implications), consolidating our grasp of it so that, faced with its often paradoxical conditions, repercussions and effects, we, « colons », can and should opt to initiate a clear and radical break with it.

It has been 15 years since the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recognized the Free, Prior and Informed consent Principle, yet it has not been able to function to its fullest potential. This Thesis aims to carry out a Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the following three countries of Australia, Canada, and the United States. With the hypothesis, that the underlying factors behind this failure can be attributed to Settler-Colonialism and Global Capitalism. To carry out this study Theoretical Frameworks based on Settler-Colonial studies and a critique of the Stakeholder theory named Critical Stakeholder Analysis (CSA) will be employed. Using the existing body of research in this area of inquiry as a point of departure, this thesis attributes the failure to implement the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent principle to its fullest potential on asymmetrical power dynamics, settler-colonial structures, and profitability.