Family, Intimacy, and Private Life
This famous philosopher is responsible for coining the term "biopolitics."
Who is Michel Foucault?
Historian Patrick Wolfe suggests that a "logic of" this is what drives settler colonialism as an active structure.
What is elimination?
True or False: Many Mainstream Indigenous rights movements in Canada sometimes criticize Indigenous feminist movements, fearing the focus on gender might reproduce settler colonial frameworks and distract from other decolonial priorities.
What is true?
Canadian scholar Rinaldo Walcott gives this name to what Himani Bannerji refers to as "multiculturalism from below."
What is the "idea of multiculturalism?"
In class, we used this term to refer to a state-mandated "politics of death" (hint: it builds on the "politics of life").
What is "necropolitics"?
Kim TallBear argues that this Dakota model of kinship reflects an extended relational network grounded in collective care and responsibility, presenting an alternative to the settler colonial nuclear family structure.
What is the tiospaye?
Framing Indigenous women as aggressive, hypersexual, and morally suspect reinforces which stereotype of “savagery”?
What is the "primitive savage" stereotype? [As opposed to the "noble savage" stereotype].
Social scientists use this term to refer to societies or social groups in which women are central to family and social organization. Many Indigenous communities in North America can be described in this way.
What is "matrifocal?"
This Canadian philosopher is famous for his work on the "politics of recognition," arguing that for Canada's multicultural project to be successful, we need to understand identity not individually, but socially/politically through "recognition" (and possibly "misrecognition").
Who is Charles Taylor?
Karen Stote argues that the concept of "family planning" replaced this as a model of reproductive governance in (settler colonial) Canada.
What is eugenics?
What was the name given to the machine used to test for homosexuality during the Canadian Cold War on queers/@SLGBTQ+ subjects.
What is the "fruit machine?"
Both Ann Stoler and Sarah Carter argue that concerns about the production of what shaped early settler colonial policies toward intermarriage (miscegenation) and reproduction with Indigenous communities.
What is Métis or métissage children?
This early Black Canadian feminist was the first female newspaper publisher in North America.
Who is Mary Ann Shadd Carey?
Within multicultural Canada, "cultural racism" has replaced this type of racism (more prominent prior to WWII during Canada's eugenics era).
What is "scientific racism" or "biological racism?"
This is another name for the trope of the "inspirational disabled subject."
What is the "Supercrip" trope?
According to Mariana Valverde, the Canadian nation-state upheld ideals of racial and sexual purity between the 1880s and 1920s through the dual processes of “Canadianizing” and what other project?
What is "Christianizing?"
This Canadian prime minister commissioned the infamous Davin Report of 1879.
Who is Sir John A. Macdonald?
This key second-wave Canadian feminist document structures the narrative of the documentary Status Quo: The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada (2012)
What is the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (1970)?
American critical race scholar and activist Angela Davis argues that multiculturalism (in the U.S., with parallels in Canada) functions as an apparatus of what?
What is "diversity management?" OR
What is "liberal culturalism?"
In what Canadian province did Karen Stote do the majority of her research on coerced/forced sterilization of Indigenous women?
What is Saskatchewan?
Kim TallBear (2018) uses this phrase to refer to how complex, relational forms of intimacy (including elements of gender and sexuality) are captured in simplistic (colonial) categories seen as fixed, defined, and delimited (lacking in fluidity and inclusiveness).
What is "objectivating the intersubjective?"
This concept is used to refer to harms that accumulate gradually over time. They are often harms that remain invisible within dominant political and legal frameworks.
What is "slow violence?"
This famous first-wave (white) Canadian feminist (who happened to be the first female magistrate in Canada) wrote The Black Candle (1922) - a racist and xenophobic book that blamed the substance use crisis in Western Canada on East Asian immigrants.
Who is Emily Murphy?
Postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha suggests that this can be a political strategy for some colonized subjects because it produces an element of ambivalence ("almost the same, but not quite).
What is colonial "mimicry?"
Dr. Nixon used this fancy academic phrase (haha!) to refer to the state's concern with ensuring immigrants/newcomers to Canada express their love/care for the nation by creating new Canadian citizens via childbirth/family planning?
What is "heteronormative reproductive futurity?"