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SUMMARY:Colonialism and Tax - Kyle Willmott Assistant Professor of Sociolo
 gy ( Simon Fraser University)
DTSTART:20210121T170000Z
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CONTACT:Guy Mulley
DESCRIPTION:The Cambridge Tax Discussion Group's first meeting of 2021 wil
 l take place on Thursday 21st January\, to be held online on Zoom. The hou
 r long-meeting will start at 17:00 UK time. No knowledge of tax is require
 d in order to attend.\n \nOur presenter will be Canadian academic Kyle Wil
 lmott\, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University in Van
 couver\, who will be discussing “Toward a Fiscal Sociology of Colonialis
 m”.\n \nKyle Willmott is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Simon Frase
 r University in Vancouver\, British Columbia. Working between political so
 ciology\, fiscal sociology\, and economic sociology\, his research attends
  to the cultural politics of taxation\, Indigenous-settler relations\, set
 tler colonialism\, and liberalism. His work has been published in Economy 
 and Society and Critical Social Policy. He is Mohawk from the Mohawks of t
 he Bay of Quinte First Nation.\n \nThe presentation will examine the strat
 egic role of tax in relation to Canada’s colonial administration of Indi
 genous nations and the broader role of tax in relation to settler colonial
 ism. Kyle will discuss some of the ongoing analytical problems in tax scho
 larship in relation to colonialism and look to build an approach that focu
 sses on the informal and ideational life of tax. The case study examines t
 he First Nations Financial Transparency Act\, which paired ideas about tra
 nsparency with taxation\, accountability\, and citizenship. Kyle aims to s
 how how the state bureaucracy aimed to re-make Indigenous political identi
 ty around ‘taxpaying’.
LOCATION:Online - email hmh46@cam.ac.uk or gevm2@cam.ac.uk for the login d
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