Of tax law, space, and colonization: The implementation of the 1919 Alaska school tax
Max is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. His research interests include law and social movements, tax law primarily Indigenous tax histories, colonial tax histories, and the socio-legal history of international taxation), Native American history, environmental history, historical geography, and borderlands history. As a socio-legal historian, Max is interested in the relationship between tax law and settler colonialism, with a specific focus on Alaska Natives. His doctoral work explores how tax law was involved in (de)colonizing processes. Specifically, it analyses tax law’s socio-cultural, spatial, and political impact on Alaska Natives during the twentieth century. In doing so, Max’s research uses several case studies to contend that tax law, when deployed by local officials, either contributed to the assimilation or further marginalization of Alaska Natives. Conversely, when tribes chose to use tax law, these tax histories unpack tribal taxation’s ability to revitalize Indigenous spaces and push back against settler colonialism and capitalism.
Date:
25 October 2021, 16:30 (Monday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Venue:
Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details:
Seminar Room C
Speaker:
Dr Max Zahnd (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Organiser:
Professor Linda Mulcahy (Director, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
admin@csls.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Linda Mulcahy (Director, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford)
Part of:
Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Alison Trinder
