Archive for the ‘Canada’ Category
nadia kanani on race and madness
Nadia Kanani, ‘Race and Madness: Locating the Experiences of Racialized People with Psychiatric Histories in Canada and the United States’, Critical Disability Discourse 3 (2011). The intersectional social construction of race and madness has significantly shaped the lived experiences of racialized people with psychiatric histories. Unfortunately, there are few studies that consider the intersections between […]
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scs 2, 1 (2011) out now
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laura landertinger on the biopolitics of indigenous reproduction and the welfare state in canada
Laura Landertinger, The Biopolitics of Indigenous Reproduction: Colonial Discourse and the Overrepresentation of Indigenous Children in the Canadian Child Welfare System (MA Thesis, Queens, 2011). From its inception, Canada’s ‘Indian policy’ has sought to undermine the bond between indigenous children and their communities. Each era has seen a new reason and corresponding tactic to remove […]
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P.G. McHugh, Aboriginal Title: The Modern Jurisprudence of Tribal Land Rights (Oxford University Press, 2011). Aboriginal title represents one of the most remarkable and controversial legal developments in the common law world of the late-twentieth century. Overnight it changed the legal position of indigenous peoples. The common law doctrine gave sudden substance to the tribes’ […]
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Emily Macgillivray, ‘Red and Black Blood: Teaching the Logic of the Canadian Settler State’. MA Thesis. (Queens University: Toronto, 2011). I examine Ontario history textbooks to demonstrate how the portrayal of the white settler fantasy of Canada being peacefully colonized and settled is enforced through the temporality and geography of the Canadian settler state, leading […]
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miranda johnson on reconciliation, indigeneity and postcolonial nationhood in settler states
Miranda Johnson, ‘Reconciliation, indigeneity, and postcolonial nationhood in settler states’, Postcolonial Studies 14, 2 (2011). In the Commonwealth settler states of Australia, New Zealand and Canada in the last two decades, ‘reconciliation’ has become a key term for expressing a new relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous (primarily white settler) peoples. The term is usually associated […]
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Sherene H. Razack, ‘Timely Deaths: Medicalizing the Deaths of Aboriginal People in Police Custody’, Law, Culture and the Humanities 7, 2 (2011) This article is part of a larger study of inquests into the deaths of Aboriginal people in custody. I suggest that the Aboriginal body is considered to be one that is already dead, […]
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Victoria Jane Freeman, ‘”Toronto has no history!” Indigeneity, settler colonialism and historical memory in Canada’s largest city’ (Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO , 2010) The Indigenous past is largely absent from settler representations of the history of the city of Toronto, Canada. Nineteenth and twentieth century historical chroniclers often downplayed the historic presence of the Mississaugas […]
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Gillad Rosen and Jill Grant, ‘Reproducing Difference: Gated Communities in Canada and Israel’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35, 4 (2011). Historical and cultural studies of residential enclaves reveal the range of patterns within a phenomenon that some have treated essentially as the result of contemporary neoliberal conditions. Gated and enclosed communities are […]
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Making Settler Colonial Space: Perspectives on Race, Place and Identity (Palgrave UK, 2010) Edited by Tracey Banivanua Mar and Penelope Edmonds. To be launched by Patrick Wolfe. The new journal, settler colonial studies, introduced by Jane Carey and Lorenzo Veracini. When: Thursday 30th June, 5.00pm for a 5.30pm start Where: Gertrudes Brown Couch, 30 Gertrude […]
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