Disappointing Indigenous People: Violence and the Refusal of Help

Cowlishaw, Gillian

doi:10.1215/08992363-15-1-103

Cited by 39 publications

(18 citation statements)

References 15 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Instead, the representations of Indigenous activism in the Canadian news media in the Caledonia "crisis" lends itself to inquiry, precisely through the collision between discursive constructions of Indigeneity, pathology and violence. Violence is typically acceptable when the aim is to control, scare and regulate (Cowlishaw, 2003). The continual violence done by settlers is rationalized as a means of control and regulation.…”

Section: Producing the Pathologized Indian And The Rational Settler Smentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Disabilities Indigenous peoples experience are individualized and pathologized on/in their bodies (Razack, 2011;Cowlishaw, 2003). Razack (2011) and Morgensen (2010) borrow from Mbembe's (2003) necropolitics and write that Indigenous peoples are understood by settlers to be already dead and therefore beyond receiving biomedical intervention.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Pathologizing Indigeneity in the Caledonia “Crisis”

Greensmith

2012

CJDS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Disability studies scholarship in Canada continues to place the experiences, identities and embodiments of Indigenous peoples in places of marginality. This paper offers to correct this by centralizing land struggles and the activism done by Indigenous peoples in Caledonia, Ontario. The author will critically analyze texts in order to show how the news media reflects "Canadian" mythologies to its audience when discussing the Caledonia "crisis" in 2006 -2007. This paper examines the Canadian news media's use of disability tropes as it imbricates disability with Indigeneity. This imbrication acts as a tool to pathologize Indigenous peoples and ensure that settler colonialism remains immune to scrutiny. By connecting Indigenous peoples to pathology, settlers can continue to understand themselves as the rightful inhabitants and owners of Turtle Island in Caledonia. This paper offers a new theoretical standpoint within disability studies scholarship, one which centralizes decolonization so as to bring discursive constructions of Indigeneity and disability into conversation with each other.

show abstract

Section: Producing the Pathologized Indian And The Rational Settler Smentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pathologizing Indigeneity in the Caledonia “Crisis”

Greensmith

2012

CJDS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The activities of most Indigenous people are constrained by ill health, poverty, welfare policies or police and legal practices (Cowlishaw, 2003;Cunneen, 1988).…”

Section: Conditions Of Social Suffering In Australiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Responsibility and the Representation of Suffering: Australian Law in Black and White

Mohr

2010

eces

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article critically analyses the concept of suffering, with particular emphasis on responsibility for and representations of suffering. Suffering is seen as a social relationship, with objective characteristics, classified by Renault as domination, deprivation and the weakening of intersubjective supports (désaffiliation). Veitch and Wolcher have inquired into legal responsibility for suffering. The author adds that suffering is also constructed subjectively, through aesthetic, political and legal representations. This theoretical model of suffering is applied to recent political and legal issues in Australia dealing with an apology for earlier policies of removing Indigenous children from their families, and a more recent aggressive "emergency response" to concerns over child abuse in Aboriginal communities. Indigenous Australians have clearly suffered from colonisation and subsequent policies, while representations of their suffering can be seen to have exacerbated their disempowerment and thus increased suffering. The article proposes recognising responsibility while avoiding the disempowerment of "victims". It concludes by proposing new approaches to domination, deprivation and disempowerment that may open the way to new constructions of political subjectivity, fostering the redevelopment of intersubjective supports, while increasing awareness of the past causes of suffering.

show abstract

“…this entails their coming inside the nation, speaking within the hegemonic discourse, and giving disturbing evidence of their otherness, whether exotic or pathetic. (Cowlishaw, 2003: 107, my emphasis)…”

Section: Some Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Incarceration to Restoration: National Responsibility, Gender and the Production of Cultural Difference

Murdocca

2009

Social & Legal Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Criminal Code of Canada contains a sentencing provision aimed at offering alternatives to incarceration for Aboriginal peoples. One of the intentions of this provision is to take national responsibility for the over-incarceration of Aboriginal peoples. Using official documents, the objective of this article is to address the possible meaning of national responsibility that is shaped by the emergence of this legal intervention. The objective is to explore how even as it attempts to address national responsibility in law, the nation remains fundamentally committed to an understanding of colonial history in which it is not guilty of wrongdoing and hence arrives at an official stance that suggests that the Canadian state is not responsible for the continued ramifications of colonialism. This article also demonstrates that the practices of control and containment which are central to the criminal justice system require cultural difference paradigms as their ideological impetus.

show abstract

Disappointing Indigenous People: Violence and the Refusal of Help

Cited by 39 publications

References 15 publications

Pathologizing Indigeneity in the Caledonia “Crisis”

Pathologizing Indigeneity in the Caledonia “Crisis”

Responsibility and the Representation of Suffering: Australian Law in Black and White

From Incarceration to Restoration: National Responsibility, Gender and the Production of Cultural Difference

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About