Writing & research
Wayne Wapeemukwa is a Michif scholar of political theory and critical philosophy. He received his PhD in Philosophy from Pennsylvania State University and was an Izaak W. Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia.
His research brings Indigenous political thought into conversation with Marxism, critical theory, post-Kantian philosophy, and theories of settler colonialism. He is currently developing his first book, Partisans of the Soil: Speculative Expropriation, Race, and Wahkootowin in Western Canada.
His scholarly work has appeared in Political Theory, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Critical Philosophy of Race, and Contemporary Political Theory. Wayne has spoken about his research on the Métis Nation of British Columbia’s Speaker Series(opens in a new tab) and the Sickle and Sash Podcast(opens in a new tab).
Selected publications
The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism
Primitive Speculation: Marx on Precapitalism, Social Relations to Land, and Indigenous Dispossession
Oedipal Empire: Psychoanalysis, Indigenous Peoples, and the Oedipus Complex in Colonial Context
We Hear an Angel: Oedipal Empire, Rematriation, and Land Back
Teaching and Learning Indigenous Philosophy in Viral Times
“It Feels Fake”: Creating Decolonizing Syllabi in the University
