Making and Breaking Settler Space: Five Centuries of Colonization in North America.

This text reviews Adam J. Barker’s book *Making and Breaking Settler Space: Five Centuries of Colonization in North America*, which critically examines how settler colonialism shapes space, power, and identity in Canada and the United States. Barker highlights the ongoing domination and erasure of Indigenous sovereignties while also addressing the often-overlooked roles and experiences of non-Indigenous, racialized groups he terms "exogenous Others." He emphasizes the importance of settlers engaging in self-reflection and targeted decolonizing actions to disrupt colonial structures, though the reviewer notes that Barker’s autoethnographic approach could benefit from deeper personal analysis. Overall, the book challenges simplified settler-Indigenous binaries and calls for active decolonization efforts within settler societies.