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Gerald Vizenor's Transnational Aesthetics in Blue Ravens
Get PDFIn Blue Ravens, Gerald Vizenor employs his familiar trickster trope to expand Anishinaabe Indigenous networks to overseas territories in ways that affirm and reinvent existing connections between Indigenous peoples. More than any of the author's previous work, the novel deploys a transnational aesthetic which playfully explores potential avenues for Native sovereignty: a space of self-determination opened up by artistic production that juxtaposes an Anishinaabe sensibility onto French war scenes and the urban environment of Paris, thus imprinting Native presence onto the land. It enables like-minded individuals to find refuge and create a new order in which Native voices are heard and artistic influence is mutual as Indigenous artists participate in the thriving cultural scene of interwar France. Indeed, Vizenor's fiction explores mobile forms of citizenship, which do not attempt to regulate subjects but allow a celebration of communal as well as individual identities. The novel showcases a Native relationship to space transformed by Indigenous art into inventive, transnational forms of aesthetic citizenship. It also outlines dynamic maps of transnational networks that nevertheless retain their Indigenous, tribal-specific focus even as they open up the field for new exchanges with global spaces. The focus on Anishinaabe art and writing demonstrates that tribal national specificities, when entering transnational space, can adapt and evolve without compromising their integrity. As this article will show, instead of breaking its ties to White Earth, the protagonists' art transposes Anishinaabe aesthetics onto Parisian locales, thus exploring new forms of Indigenous sovereignty that span beyond political borders
Indigenous Cosmolectics: Kab'awil and the Making of Maya and Zapotec Literatures (Gloria Elizabeth Chacón)
No full textREVIEW ESSAY: Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case (Kent Roach)
No full textREVIEW ESSAY: Sacred Smokes (Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.)
No full textA book review of Sacred Smokes by Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr
Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story: Teaching American Indian Rhetorics (eds. King, Gubele, and Anderson) and Indigenous Education: New Directions in Theory and Practice, (eds. Tomlins-Jahnke, Styres, Lilley, and Zinga)
No full textProfessional Closure: An Example from American Clinical Psychology
Get PDFObjective: Study the American clinical psychology landscape to discern scientist-practitioner and practitioner-scholar involvement in professional activities, specifically the organizational and scholarly domains.Methods: Data were gathered from online sources regarding: professional association membership, leadership, and award recipients; faculty positions within psychology doctoral programs; journal editor positions; and contributions to the scholarly literature.Results: Scientist-practitioners dominate American clinical psychology’s principal professional association’s membership (73.5%) and leadership (93.2%) and receive nearly all its awards (98.2%). Faculties for both practitioner-scholar programs (76.2%) and scientist-practitioner programs (99.1%) were dominated by scientist-practitioners. The editor of each journal surveyed was a scientist-practitioner. Most literature contributions (77.3%) were from scientist-practitioners.Conclusions: Scientist-practitioners in the United States can access organizational and scholarly roles/activities. Practitioner-scholars do not have the same access. Scientist-practitioners use implicit, normalized practices known as ‘closure methods’ to preserve their access to professional opportunities, resources, and rewards. Practitioner-scholars, subject to ‘professional closure’, compose an excluded group
“The Enemy of the Good”: Reflections on Ireland’s New Abortion Legislation
Get PDFThis short reflection presents a personal account of the process and outcome, the achievements and disappointments of legislative reform following the Irish referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution. While the new Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 will afford access to legal abortion to many women for the first time in Ireland, it does not meet feminist demands and is likely to exclude a range of women in difficult and marginalised circumstances. The piece reflects on the frustrations and compromises of feminist law reform and concludes that the process of abortion law reform in Ireland will be ongoing
On the Mysterious 1831 Cherokee Manuscript or Jisdu Fixes John Locke’s Two Treatises of Civil Government
Get PDFThis article imagines that the Cherokee Rabbit Trickster, Jisdu, got his hands on the orginal manuscript of John Locke's Two Treatises on Civil Government. What is presented here is Jisdu's rewritting and reimaging from with a Cherokee context the ideas of Locke's foundational work on popular sovereignty and private property
Full Metal Indigiqueer (Joshua Whitehead)
Get PDFBook review of Joshua Whitehead's Full Metal Indigiquee
Learn, Teach, Challenge: Approaching Indigenous Literatures (eds Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra)
No full textReview of Learn, Teach, Challenge: Approaching Indigenous Literatures, ed. Reder and Morra (2016)
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