Representation as a Technology of Violence: On the Representation of the Murders and Disappearances of Aboriginal Women in Canada and Women in Ciudad Juarez

Moral, Paulina García‐Del

doi:10.1080/08263663.2011.10817014

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“…The resulting social and political marginalization has led Indigenous women and girls to be disproportionately affected by poverty and to lack access to goods and resources (Bourgeois, 2015; Culhane, 2003; Lucchesi, 2019). The devaluation of Indigenous women's femininity, bodies, and sexuality through racist and sexist stereotypes exacerbates their marginalization by constructing them as “disposable” (Carter, 1997; Culhane, 2003; García‐Del Moral, 2011, 2018; Razack, 2000, 2016). These structural and symbolic violences have created the conditions for Indigenous women and girls to have a higher risk of victimization than non‐Indigenous women within or outside of their communities (Bourgeois, 2015; Lucchesi, 2019; Lucchesi & Echo‐Hawk, 2018; Stephen & Speed, 2021).…”

Section: Background: Violences Against Indigenous Women and Girls Acr...mentioning

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Indigenous women, multiple violences, and legal activism: Beyond the dichotomy of human rights as “law” and as “ideas for social movements”

Moral

2022

Sociology Compass

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This review interrogates the divide between human rights "as ideas for social movements" and human rights "as law" that permeates the literature on human rights law and gender violence by putting it into conversation with the scholarship on Indigenous women's legal activism against the multiple forms of violence that they face. This divide obscures the ways in which Indigenous women across the Americas have appropriated and re-signified the discourse and practice of human rights by engaging in formal legal processes at the community, domestic, and supranational levels. I problematize this dichotomy and argue that human rights "as ideas for social movements" and "as law" go hand in hand to challenge the multiple injustices affecting the lives of Indigenous women. This review invites sociologists to consider the experiences of Indigenous women's legal activism and its relationship to colonialism in their analyses of social movement dynamics and it contributes to decentering analyses on legal mobilization that are based on the global North.

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Indigenous women, multiple violences, and legal activism: Beyond the dichotomy of human rights as “law” and as “ideas for social movements”

Moral

2022

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“…Reporting was found to mainly focus on violence and the perceived threat Māori People pose to white New Zealanders (Abel, 2013). Studies focusing on the representation of missing Indigenous women in Mexico and Canada found that media coverage paints these women as disposable (García‐Del Moral, 2014). Research on the media coverage of Palestinian athletes in Israel similarly found that their voices are often being silenced and policed (Shor, 2008; Shor & Yonay, 2011; Yonay & Shor, 2014).…”

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Racial stereotyping of indigenous people in the Canadian media: A comparative analysis of two water pollution incidents

Burns

Shor

2021

Canadian Review of Sociology

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This article examines the discourse surrounding issues affecting Indigenous peoples within the Canadian mainstream media. We compare the coverage of two cases of water poisonings—one in a primarily‐white town and the other in an Indigenous community—in 282 newspaper articles from the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Windspeaker. We show that the dominant coverage of these two very similar cases diverged significantly. The Indigenous workers in charge of the water supply were regarded as incompetent and incapable to fill their position while the entire community was described as drunk, lazy, helpless, and perpetually dependent on government aide. By contrast, white workers were seen as relatable and in command of their erroneous actions, while the residents of the town were described simply as the victims of an unfortunate tragedy. Such reporting fails to contextualize the events or point out the injustices of Canadian colonialism, thus contributing to the perpetuation of these injustices.

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“…News portrayals are both reflective of social norms and play a role in reproducing them, much like individual attitudes and beliefs [38,46,47]. Yet unlike individual attitudes and beliefs, news coverage has an authority of being purportedly objective and telling the true story of events; thus, these portrayals may be readily accepted as fact, despite harmful representations (e.g., victim-blaming, sensationalizing violence) [33] that function as a "technology of violence" with discursive and material effects [48] (p. 35). Misrepresentations may inflict psychological and emotional harm on survivors of violence and their families [49] and miss the opportunity to be a source of public education (e.g., including information on early risk factors and/or helpline information) and positively influence public policy [45].…”

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Before #MeToo: Violence against Women Social Media Work, Bystander Intervention, and Social Change

Fairbairn

2020

Societies

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High-profile, social-media-fueled movements such as #MeToo have captured broader public attention in recent years and sparked widespread discussion of violence against women (VAW). However, online prevention work was underway in the years leading up to #MeToo, as the emergence and proliferation of social media enabled individuals to be increasingly active participants in shaping conversations about VAW. Situated within feminist VAW scholarship and the social–ecological framework of violence prevention, this paper draws from interviews with a cross-section of service providers, public educators, activists, advocates, writers, and researchers to analyze “conversation” as a central theme in VAW prevention work in social media. Results reveal that these conversations take place in three central ways: (1) engaging wider audiences in conversations to raise awareness about VAW; (2) narrative shifts challenging societal norms that support or enable VAW; and (3) mobilization around high-profile news stories. The paper finds that, through these conversations, this work moves beyond individual-level risk factors to target much needed community- and societal-level aspects, primarily harmful social norms that circulate and become reinforced in digital media spaces. Moreover, while bystander intervention has traditionally been approached as an offline pursuit to intervene in face-to-face situations of VAW, this paper argues that we can understand and value these VAW prevention efforts as an online form of bystander intervention. Finally, resource challenges and VAW prevention workers’ experiences of harassment and abuse related to their online work highlights a need to strengthen social and institutional supports for this work.

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Representation as a Technology of Violence: On the Representation of the Murders and Disappearances of Aboriginal Women in Canada and Women in Ciudad Juarez

Cited by 9 publications

References 15 publications

Indigenous women, multiple violences, and legal activism: Beyond the dichotomy of human rights as “law” and as “ideas for social movements”

Indigenous women, multiple violences, and legal activism: Beyond the dichotomy of human rights as “law” and as “ideas for social movements”

Racial stereotyping of indigenous people in the Canadian media: A comparative analysis of two water pollution incidents

Before #MeToo: Violence against Women Social Media Work, Bystander Intervention, and Social Change

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