“Our Bodies Are Not Terra Nullius”: Building a Decolonial Feminist Resistance to Gendered Violence

Mack, Ashley Noel; Na’puti, Tiara R.

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“…They and other scholars [30] point to the implications and future directions to address the structural inequities involved in Indigenous health research and to be grounded in Indigenous women's perspectives. A gendered view is needed to address gendered-violence and "to build a decolonial feminist resistance" [31]. The use of Indigenous research methodologies carries the potential to address imbalanced/gendered violence/deficit-based health research as it is informed by an Indigenous worldview with its ethics of kinship relationality [2,3,8,15,20,[32][33][34][35][36][37][38].…”

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“…In doing so, we increasingly recognize that Indigenous women were traditionally and continue to be the community health researchers and are well equipped with tools, skills, land knowledge, traditional laws, languages, and kinship value systems [39][40][41][42]. Building on Indigenous women's vision to encourage and support decolonial health research, we aim to contribute to Indigenous women's health scholarship by pointing to theoretical frameworks' that risk upholding gendered violence and white supremacy by rendering invisible the ongoing intersectional oppressions of patriarchy and settler-colonialism [13,31].…”

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A methodological protocol for conducting a scoping review of health research on/by/with Indigenous women in North America

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Background Indigenous women in North America experience multiple inequities in terms of health and well-being when compared to non-Indigenous women and Indigenous men. In an effort to understand these health disparities, there has been a surge of research in the field of Indigenous women’s health and well-being over the last 20 years. The objective of this study is to conduct a scoping review of the most current research in this field to determine which theoretical frameworks are being used to study which topics in Indigenous women’s health and well-being in North America. Methods The scoping review protocol used was designed to follow an iterative six-step process as laid out by Arksey and O’Malley. Peer-reviewed, academic articles from the following databases were identified: Academic Search Complete, Native Health Database, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Bibliography of Native North America, Sociological Abstracts, Gender Watch, and Indigenous Peoples of North America. Two team members subsequently conducted two screens of titles and abstracts to include articles which focused exclusively on Indigenous women’s health and well-being published between 2011 and 2021. The literature considered focused on Indigenous women’s health and well-being and explicitly states their use of critical theoretical frameworks (e.g., Indigenous feminist, intersectionality, Indigenous resurgence, feminist, critical race) or community-based participatory research (CBPR). Data analysis will involve quantitative and qualitative descriptions. Discussion The results of our scoping review (in progress) will map out the current field of Indigenous women’s health research. Our findings will highlight the theoretical frameworks operationalized in research on Indigenous women’s health, identify gaps therein, and provide a basis for understanding how these theoretical lenses shape questions, methodologies, analysis, and implications of academic research.

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A methodological protocol for conducting a scoping review of health research on/by/with Indigenous women in North America

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“…theoretical lens challenges the coloniality of a singular feminist focus on patriarchy alone and offers a reading that understands femicide and GBV as systemic, as emerging from and complicit in reproducing ongoing colonial relations of power in which racialisation, heteronormativity, classism, homophobia and transphobia are considered normative (Mack and Na'Puti, 2019). It also offers an understanding of the historical ways in which genocide may be linked to femicide and the contemporary roots that ground understandings of whose bodies are considered disposable and who might be deemed more worthy of concern.…”

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Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis

Boonzaier

2022

Current Sociology

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How are we to think about femicide in South Africa – a country with one of the highest rates of gendered violence, globally? The rate of women murdered in South Africa is around five times the global average and at least half of women who are murdered die at the hands of an intimate partner. Every so often, a South African woman’s murder is propelled into national (and sometimes international) media discourse. How these crimes are reported are important for shaping public consciousness about crimes against women, gendered violence and the sexist, misogynistic and patriarchal contexts that produce it. This paper reports on an analysis of instances of femicide that have been reported in South African national media over the past five years. It offers a decolonial feminist reading of the reporting, showing how it is characterised by an overarching narrative that spectacularizes the violence, drawing on long-standing, racialised, colonial tropes about black bodies and identities. The implications of this discourse on femicide are considered for how it contributes to the shaping of collective consciousness and public discourse around how to understand femicide, specifically its victims and its perpetrators.

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“…Such an anti-colonial approach is especially important when it comes to activism involving violence against women. Engaging in anti-colonial research and centering Indigenous women's experiences becomes necessary when addressing violence so as not to rely on increasing state enforcement and regulations (Hunt, 2016;Mack & Na'puti, 2019). Significantly, "Indigenous women's knowledge expands beyond the activities done by women and involves a system of inquiry that reveals Indigenous processes of observing and understanding and the protocols for being and participating in the world" (Altamirano-Jimenez & Kermoal, 2016, p. 10).…”

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“…The difference in concerns consist of, but are not limited to, the lasting impacts of the settler state policies instituted as a part of settler colonialism, such as: the Indian Act; forced attendance at abusive residential schools; and the continuous breakdown of Indigenous languages and customs, which has greatly impacted Indigenous families, communities, and women (Amnesty, 2004;Lawrence & Dua, 2005;National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, 2019;NWAC 2002;. Anti-colonial and decolonizing research urges scholarship to reassess the ways in which knowledge production takes on or resists colonial logics while not remaining reliant on settler frameworks and discourses (Arvin et al, 2013;Carlson, 2017;Mack & Na'puti, 2019;Tuck & Yang, 2012).…”

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"Our Experiences are Different...Our Risks are Different": Racialized Women's Online Activism to End Violence Against Women in Canada

Rajani¹

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Existing research on online activism to end violence against women tends to homogenize the experiences of women. To help address this issue, this dissertation poses the following questions: why and how do racialized women in Canada participate in antiviolence online activism, specifically around violence against women? Grounded in an intersectional framework, this dissertation draws from semi-structured interviews and uses a social constructivist grounded theory approach to examine the experiences of nine racialized online activist women in Canada. In line with the intersectional framework guiding this research, and in an effort to further both research and discussion as it pertains to the diversity of women involved in such activities, all analyses will also attempt to account for other identities expressed by participants.Broadly, the collective experiences of these participants involves a focus on creating a variety of digital media technologies (e.g., personal websites, social media pages and profiles, and podcasts) to draw attention to the intersectional nature of violence against women. The counternarratives that they create and distribute challenge prevailing narratives that tend to ignore the intersectional nature of violence against women, specifically pointing to omissions in: mainstream news media; the non-profit sector involved in preventing and ending violence against women; and settler colonial policies, frameworks, and regulations. The racialized women interviewed for this dissertation expressed a struggle to increase their visibility and widen their networks for support and mobilization online. As noted by participants, this struggle often arises from a range of social media platform biases and experiences of technology-facilitated violence, factors that are often ignored in research and discussion pertaining to such online activist efforts. By focusing on the intersectional identities expressed by participants and their experiences with struggles unique to online activist work, this study contributes a deeper and more nuanced account to the limited research on racialized women in Canada and their efforts to end violence against women.

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“Our Bodies Are Not Terra Nullius”: Building a Decolonial Feminist Resistance to Gendered Violence

Cited by 5 publications

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A methodological protocol for conducting a scoping review of health research on/by/with Indigenous women in North America

A methodological protocol for conducting a scoping review of health research on/by/with Indigenous women in North America

Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis

"Our Experiences are Different...Our Risks are Different": Racialized Women's Online Activism to End Violence Against Women in Canada

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