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<p>Now available for ordering and/or free download…<br>
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Erin Manning<br>
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<i>Explores what it means to be claimed, not just by blood, but by
history, land, and the fragile web of human connection.</i><br>
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To belong is never a simple matter. For Erin Manning, ancestry has
always been more of an entanglement than a strict lineage: a
collection of stories, fabulations, and echoes of the past. <i>Unsettled</i>
is a deeply personal and philosophical exploration of ancestry,
identity, and belonging, particularly within the context of
Québec’s settler-colonial history and its complex relationship
with Indigeneity. <br>
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Here Manning describes her relationship with a close friend, R.,
who has lived a life shaped by poverty, subsistence farming, and a
profound connection with the land. When R.’s mother bequeaths him
their family land, he is left to navigate the tensions of
inheritance, loss, and belonging. In an attempt to connect to R.’s
Indigenous background, Manning offers to trace his genealogy.
Soon, questions of what it means to “bestow” Indigeneity from an
ancestral perspective begin to loom. Manning explores and
critiques the practice of usurping Indigeneity in Québec, where
claims of Métis ancestry are often leveraged for social or
political gain, ultimately reinforcing whiteness and colonial
structures rather than dismantling them. Through the lens of
personal relationships, historical analysis, and philosophical
inquiry, <i>Unsettled</i> challenges conventional notions of
ancestry, property, and identity, while advocating for relational
belonging over bloodline essentialism.<br>
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“We humans need guiding narratives to name the world we want to
become. Making a different world requires different stories. Erin
Manning’s Unsettled steps beyond insatiable settler mythologies of
self-making, beyond shame for their collective entitlement, and
into the literal in-the-dirt work of uprooting white
possessiveness.” – Kim TallBear, Professor of Indigenous Peoples,
Technoscience, and Society at the University of Alberta<br>
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“<i>Unsettled</i> is a courageous and consequential work that will
productively incite some readers and inspire others. It leans
into openings, agonies and engagements with identity fabulation,
affording textual time and space to marginalized rural white
people and the pretendian phenomenon alike. Manning has written an
incisive, layered and extraordinary work demanded by some of the
most complex ethical dilemmas, circulating in the back waters and
elite spaces, that can be found in the sociality of our times.
Some will find the pages useful to rip out and position under
kindling as fire-starter. It will likely start other kinds of
fires as well…” – Peter Kulchyski, Professor of Native Studies at
the University of Manitoba<br>
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<b>Bio:</b> Erin Manning studies in the interstices of philosophy,
aesthetics and politics, concerned, always, about
alter-pedagogical and alter-economic practices. Recent monographs
include <i>The Minor Gesture</i> (2016) and <i>For a Pragmatics
of the Useless</i> (2020). 3e is the direction her current
artistic research takes – an exploration of the transversality of
the three ecologies, the social, the environmental and the
conceptual. An iteration of 3e is a land-based project north of
Montreal where living and learning is experimented. Legacies of
SenseLab infuse the project, particularly the question of how
collectivity is crafted in a more-than human encounter with worlds
in the making.<br>
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September-October 2025 (to be shipped in November). Anyone who
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a special barcode free version of the book.<br>
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Release to the book trade 20 March 2026<br>
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Released by Minor Compositions, Colchester / Brooklyn / Port
Watson<br>
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drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the
revolutions of everyday life.<br>
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