Colonial Geographies: Indigenous Access to Primary Care in British Columbia

Muller, Megan

doi:10.1080/01459740.2021.2021901

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“…Alone or together, each of these eliminatory techniques can be studied for their health effects, often through well-described social determinant intermediaries. Examples might include the impoverishment resulting from home demolitions and ongoing settler invasion ( 123 ), environmental exposures and lack of sufficient clean water related to displacement, limited healthcare access resulting from movement restrictions or sequestration ( 123 , 124 ), and forced dietary changes through settler appropriation of agricultural land and initiation of diabetogenic rations and/or economic capture ( 125 ). Some eliminatory manifestations can also be analyzed for direct health impacts, including Israel’s refusal to administer COVID-19 vaccines to occupied Palestinians ( 126 ), limb loss from intentional maiming ( 127 ), psychosocial trauma resulting from settler violence, and stress-related inflammatory and hormonal dysregulation from institutional and interpersonal anti-Indigenous racism.…”

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Because its power remains naturalized: introducing the settler colonial determinants of health

Wispelwey

Tanous

Asi

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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Indigenous people suffer earlier death and more frequent and severe disease than their settler counterparts, a remarkably persistent reality over time, across settler colonized geographies, and despite their ongoing resistance to elimination. Although these health inequities are well-known, they have been impervious to comprehensive and convincing explication, let alone remediation. Settler colonial studies, a fast-growing multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field, is a promising candidate to rectify this impasse. Settler colonialism’s relationship to health inequity is at once obvious and incompletely described, a paradox arising from epistemic coloniality and perceived analytic challenges that we address here in three parts. First, in considering settler colonialism an enduring structure rather than a past event, and by wedding this fundamental insight to the ascendant structural paradigm for understanding health inequities, a picture emerges in which this system of power serves as a foundational and ongoing configuration determining social and political mechanisms that impose on human health. Second, because modern racialization has served to solidify and maintain the hierarchies of colonial relations, settler colonialism adds explanatory power to racism’s health impacts and potential amelioration by historicizing this process for differentially racialized groups. Finally, advances in structural racism methodologies and the work of a few visionary scholars have already begun to elucidate the possibilities for a body of literature linking settler colonialism and health, illuminating future research opportunities and pathways toward the decolonization required for health equity.

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Because its power remains naturalized: introducing the settler colonial determinants of health

Wispelwey

Tanous

Asi

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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A moral economy of care: How clinical discourses perpetuate Indigenous‐specific discrimination and racism in western Canadian emergency departments

Muller da Silva

2024

Med Anthropol Q

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Recent research has unveiled the pervasiveness with which Indigenous patients are subjected to racialized stereotypes within the Canadian health system. Because discrimination in health care is associated with poor health outcomes and undertreated illness, there is a need to better understand how racism is perpetuated systemically in order to rectify the policies, practices, and attitudes that enable it. This article outlines a moral economy of care in emergency departments in western Canada by exploring the discourses that medical professionals employ when discussing cases of medical racism. While these discourses respond to the everyday realities of working in hospitals, they are also rooted in the colonial genealogy of health care in Canada and perpetuated by neoliberal shifts in health care services. By exploring the moral economy of care, this article sheds light on the way pervasive discourses contribute to reproducing and circulating Indigenous‐specific racism and its role in decision‐making.

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Colonial Geographies: Indigenous Access to Primary Care in British Columbia

Cited by 2 publications

References 19 publications

Because its power remains naturalized: introducing the settler colonial determinants of health

Because its power remains naturalized: introducing the settler colonial determinants of health

A moral economy of care: How clinical discourses perpetuate Indigenous‐specific discrimination and racism in western Canadian emergency departments

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