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Showing 1 to 20 of 118 for “"Settler colonial"”.
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Rape: A Settler-Colonial and Anti-Black Project
… used as a tool to perpetuate heteropatriarchy, settler-colonialism, and anti- Black racism. For instance, Deer (2015) explains that Indigenous women experience disproportionately high rates of sexual violence that spans generations. She reasons that the systematic imposition of patriarchy is …
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The Rhetoric of Gallows Humor: The Settler Colonial Unconscious in Reservation Dogs
… as a rhetorical and psychoanalytic critique of settler colonialism. Focusing on the television series Reservation Dogs, I argue that gallows humor, which is defined as comedy engaging death, trauma, and suffering, functions as a distinctly Native rhetorical practice that reveals and resists …
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Unsettling epigenetics: contested understandings of trauma and evidence in settler colonial Australia
… space within Indigenous health research in settler colonial Australia. Intergenerational trauma is a popular model for understanding how colonial and racist policies have had, and continue to have, long-lasting and multi-generational impacts on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous peoples. …
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An Examination of Settler-Colonial Genocide in Canada at the Microlevel of Reserves
… peoples in Canada under colonization and settler-colonialism, is analyzed through Decolonization theory, using the United Nations Convention on Genocide definition of genocide, formally ratified by Canada in 1952. This includes the debate of ‘cultural’ genocide verse genocide period. …
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Traditional Practices and Negotiating Settler Colonial Society: An Exploration of Sport and Physical Culture Within the Siksika Nation
… transformative paradigm with an Indigenist, anti-colonial framework guided this research. Information was gathered through sharing circles and one-on-one interviews with elders (of which 31 participated) as well as archival sources such as newspapers, yearbooks, etc. Key topics covered include the …
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Haunting visions: The refusal of settler-colonial containment in C. Ree’s Dark Water and annie ross’s Pots and Other Living Beings
… that figure in contemporary Indigenous or anti- colonial thought. By focusing on acts of settler-colonial violence embedded in surroundings that have been rendered neutral, Ree and ross utilize a hauntology. They alter their audiences’ perception of the spaces they work in, making them aware of …
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The Settler State is a White Woman: Re-Conceptualizing Audra Simpson’s Masculine State Through a Gendered Genealogy of Settler Colonial Statecraft in Canada
Audra Simpson accounts for the oppressive colonial apparatus of the Canadian state with a gendered theory of settler statecraft. The ongoing evidence of heteropatriarchal violence targeting Indigenous women in Canada points her to adopt a wholly androcentric theory in which she argues that ‘the …
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Dignity Takings and Dignity Restoration of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Colonial Canada: A qualitative analysis of the transformative potential of free, prior and informed consent
… to recognize the larger project of ongoing settler colonialism and for its inability to meaningfully respond to the aspirations and demands of Indigenous peoples for self-determination. However, in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report, the important recommendation was made …
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Nature Unsettled: the making of the wilderness imaginary and the Canadian settler state
… Canada as contextualized within the structure of settler colonialism, I attempt a fuller understanding of these landscapes. Paying particular attention to how settler colonial difference has historically intersected with the cultural framing of nature in Canada, this thesis aims to bring to light …
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A Peaceful Death?: Kamilaroi French ‘family’ and ‘relative autonomy’ for ‘Aboriginal peacebuilding’
… a framework designed to both uncover continuing settler colonial genocide, and to value and articulate resources for ‘Aboriginal peacebuilding’. This thesis finds that there are vital ‘Aboriginal peacebuilding’ resources embedded in Kamilaroi French everyday sociality, implicit values, and …
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Structures of Accumulation and Security: Understanding Contemporary Farm Attacks Through Autoethnographic Reflections and Historical Inquiry of the Cape Colony
… examines the complex relationship between settler accumulation and security within instances of violence on farms in the Cape Colony, employing a dual methodology of microhistory and autoethnographic inquiry. This study seeks deeper insights into the enduring patterns that characterise …
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What's mine isn't yours, but what's yours is definitely mine: University student use of Cherokee Indian culture in identity formation
… in what ways, if any, do students engage with settler-colonial narratives to selectively remember events and express their student body collective identity. Within the analysis process, I determined the narratives of Ancient Peoples, Exoticism and Romanticism, and Civilized and Uncivilized …
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Revolutionary Forms: Unsettling Dance Through Site-Relational and Transformative Aesthetics
… in which site-specificity in dance reproduces settler colonial logics, this thesis seeks to address questions about relationships of embodiment and land in screendance, remote interactive performance, and the proscenium theatre. Through close readings of work by Indigenous artists Dana Claxton …
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The Science of Settler Colonialism: A Canadian History of the Thrifty Gene Hypothesis
… scientific observations, and contributed to a colonialist discourse of Indigenous disappearance by suggesting that Indians or Aboriginal people were biologically unfit to survive contact with (settler) colonial societies despite centuries of evidence to the contrary. Thus, while my main …
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'Like Ice Floes': Iñupiaq Sovereignty and Settler Migration on Alaska's North Slope
… and refines theoretical frameworks concerning settler colonialism. I draw on political, economic, and environmental literatures in sociocultural anthropology, as well as Native American and Indigenous studies and interdisciplinary settler colonial studies, to show how Iñupiat and non-Iñupiat …
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THE URBAN-AGRICULTURAL CITY AS A HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: A CASE STUDY OF PHILADELPHIA
… The period of study centers around the settler-colonial period of the city’s history but spans from the era of Lenape territorial control to the consolidation of the modern city in 1854. Three historical-geographic antecedents to contemporary racial justice practices within urban …
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Federal perceptions and tribal sovereignty: consultation and relations between the Bureau of Land Management and federally recognized tribes
… of Land Management (BLM) is an institution of settler colonialism. Its origins lie in Western expansion and the dispossession of land from Indigenous communities. Today it administers the largest collection of public lands in the country and must maintain relationships through consultation with …
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Examining the Relational Space of Native Faculty Members in Higher Education
… teachings and knowledge they contribute within settler-colonial institutions. Nonetheless, Native faculty continue to demonstrate resilience and leadership navigating in higher education.</p> <p>This qualitative research study examines the experiences of 11 Native women faculty members within …
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Tracing the Invisible Borders of Canadian Citizenship: Critical Analysis of Social Work with Noncitizens
… Indigenous studies, critical race studies, settler colonial studies, affect theories, and Foucaults notion of powerI consider both the historical and contemporary contexts in which social work with noncitizens has become invested in Canadian citizenship. My thesis addresses the …
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Love Letter : A study of South Asian Women, and their relationships with Māori and other racialised Women in Aotearoa
… and other racialised women under conditions of settler colonialism and white supremacy. This work is a response to my own relational experiences as a South Asian woman living in Aotearoa, and to the conversations that have emerged from years of active community involvement. This project centres …
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