Entre villes colonialistes et villes autochtones, vers un changement de paradigme en études urbaines?

While more than half of the Indigenous population in what is now Canada lives in urban centers (Statistics Canada 2016), the literature on Indigenous realities has long omitted the city as a place of study. This chapter explains this paradox. By accounting for the liveliness and complexity of Indigenous urbanities, it highlights the importance of taking them into account not only in Indigenous studies but, perhaps even more so, in urban studies. In this way, he helps to reposition the framework of settlement colonialism in urban studies. Colonialist cities illustrate in many ways the processes of exclusion and dispossession at work at different scales in our urban spaces. The term “colonialist”, which we have chosen to use to describe cities that have emerged from settlement colonialism, such as Canadian cities, underlines the fact that these processes continue to be actively reproduced.