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Situating the S-Slur Within the Colonial Imaginary: The Shaping and Shaming of Indigenous Un/Womanhood in Western Canada during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
No full textThis paper charts the shifting connotations, uses and impacts of the s-slur, a derogatory term used by colonizers to refer to Indigenous women, in archival Western Canadian newspapers. It aims to demonstrate the influences of hetero-patriarchy, racism, and capitalism on the perception of Indigenous ‘un/womanhood’ during the expansion of the settler state. It draws upon feminist and linguistic frameworks to examine the coloniality of gender, naming, and slurs. By examining how the use of the s-slur fluctuated between insinuations of victimhood (in relation to Indigenous gender roles, traditions, and marriage) and threat (in association with sexual deviancy and sex work), this paper aims to demonstrate how the term represented both sides of the racialized gender dichotomy, depending on how it could best serve the colonial project. This research is an attempt to understand the legacies of violence inflicted by, and encapsulated in, the use of this word towards Indigenous women, and to argue for the necessity of de-normalizing its use
Mapping the Conversation: Tracing Incommensurability and Solidarity in Theories of Indigenous and Diasporic Liberation.
No full textThis paper traces incommensurability and solidarity in theories of Indigenous and Diasporic liberation. The author takes the position that Indigenous and diasporic forms of liberation are both deeply related and sharply divided. While these groups share histories of displacement and oppression––usually through settler-colonial, capitalist expropriation of lands, resources, and the exploitation of labour––their differences are equally prominent in their distinct formulation of liberation. While these groups both want to build a new world, the worlds they want to build are not the same. By mapping out the tensions between Indigenous and diasporic conceptions of liberation as they are addressed in theory and scholarship, we can glimpse a deeper understanding of the respective ontological ideals and stark differences in the worlds both groups aspire to build. Historically, however, people organizing have found ways to go beyond incommensurability in praxis where joint resistance becomes the only option for realizing liberation
Pearl Harbour and the Unification of Japan: a New Perspective on the Attack of Pearl Harbour through a Japanese Pan-Asianist Lens
No full textOn December 7th (8th in Japan) 1941, Japan, without provocation, bombed Hawai\u27i\u27s Pearl Harbour, effectively imposing war on the United States. Since this event, much of the world at large has questioned why Japan would wage war with such a powerful nation without any chance of victory. This paper offers an alternative perspective on the popular history of the events of Pearl Harbour by examining former relations between Japan and the U.S., and how those relations impacted Japan\u27s motives behind the attack. Japan\u27s strike on the West was fueled by the objective of Pan-Asianism, an ideology which was paramount in Japan\u27s ongoing search for identity and its feelings of obligation in protecting other Asian countries from the perceived harm of the West. With this understanding, Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour, however misguided, may be regarded as an attempt to attain a sense of identity and unity
REFLECTIONS ON NETWORKING DYNAMICS TO ADDRESS VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN IN TANZANIA
No full textThis article is based on a study conducted to understand the functionality and connectivity of existing networks and their impact on the prevention and response to violence against children (VAC) in East Africa. We adopted an exploratory qualitative approach in which a bottom-up purposive selection of study participants was used. Data were collected using focus group discussions with grassroots actors, interviews with network leads at the grassroots district and national levels, and VAC network funders. The study was carried out in Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam region in three districts (Kigamboni, Temeke, and Ilala) and eight wards. Our findings show that because the nature of VAC is complex and multidimensional, efforts to respond to it also exhibit these qualities. Depending on the goal, networking takes various forms, and VAC networks can have unspecified lifespans. VAC networking results from strategic decision-making that yields many benefits, including a stronger voice and visibility, enhanced impact, and potential efficiency. However, networks also encounter bottlenecks that negatively impact their goals. This is an indication that VAC network actors ought to be more reflexive regarding the space they occupy in the network and intentionally pursue strong relationships among actors and networks
Préface Vol. 6 Topiques: La sensation sonore dans la littérature d’Ancien Régime : enjeux topiques
No full textThe preface of the collective work titled Le paysage sonore dans la littérature d’Ancien régime, ou du son comme topos de scènes narratives reflects on the integration of multiple sounds and noises in the idiom of writers, while asking if sound would only be a supplement of a narrative scene, if it would only have a pragmatic and ornamental function, or if it could only be understood as vehicle of an argument, possibly as a fully fledged motive of the story narrated. This preface leads to the demonstration from, among other illustrations, articles of volume that it presents at the same time. The ample and varied corpus of texts studied shows that the recurrence of narrative configurations with sound confronts the ear of the reader with true “stereotypes of sound”. According to the definition of the notion of topos, the representation of sound, articulated in narrative, rhetoric and poetic, likely becomes customary of the discourse.
Keywords : Sound - Topos - Recurrence - Hearing - ReaderLa préface de l’ouvrage collectif intitulé Le paysage sonore dans la littérature d’Ancien régime, ou du son comme topos de scènes narratives réfléchit à l’intégration de multiples sons et bruits dans la langue des écrivains en se demandant si le son serait seulement un supplément dans une scène narrative, s’il aurait une fonction uniquement pragmatique ou ornementale, ou s’il ne pourrait être entendu comme véhicule d’un argument voire comme motif à part entière de l’histoire racontée. Cet avant-propos mène alors la démonstration à partir, entre autres illustrations, des articles du volume qu’il présente dans le même temps. Le corpus ample et varié des textes interrogés montre que la récurrence de configurations narratives sonores confronte l’oreille du lecteur à de véritables « stéréotypes sonores ». Selon la définition accordée à la notion de topos, la représentation du sonore, articulée au narratif, à la rhétorique et à la poétique, devient sans doute alors un lieu commun du discours.  
Le rire sonore de Dassoucy alias Diogène
No full textWearing a diogenic mask in the autofiction of his Adventures, Dassoucy proceeds to a falsification of social values which contaminates the musical topic. He thus reappropriates the facetious tradition of Renaissance storytellers and of Rabelais to exacerbate its satirical and blasphemous virtualities. These facetious perspectives set up a reading device based on a game of encrypted connivance to deconstruct the topic of the harmonia mundi, even to substitute the Christian symbolism of the bells for the cynical sign of recognition of a laugh with obscene and blasphemous resonances.Arborant un masque diogénique dans l’autofiction de ses Aventures, Dassoucy procède à une falsification des valeurs sociales qui contamine la topique musicale. Il se réapproprie ainsi la tradition facétieuse des conteurs de la Renaissance et de Rabelais pour en exacerber les virtualités satiriques et blasphématoires. Ces perspectives facétieuses mettent en place un dispositif de lecture fondée sur un jeu de connivence cryptée pour déconstruire la topique de l’harmonia mundi, voire substituer à la symbolique chrétienne des cloches le signe de reconnaissance cynique d’un rire aux résonances obscènes et blasphématoires
Little Did We Know!
No full textKevin A. Quarmby situates the 2019 theatre scene within the context of social justice concerns prevalent in 2019. Not only did 2019 pass with all its political, social, and cultural discord painfully intact, but also the year’s focus on disparate, often localized events now appears quaintly ill-considered given the global problems that erupted in 2020. The varied articles in Scene’s 2019 issue offer a taste of what was, a reminder what we missed, and what we hoped would soon return
Keepers of the Night Stories
No full textThis paper, which I presented at the Responding to Ecological Challenges with/in Contemporary Childhoods Colloquium in January 2020, is an extension of my dissertation research with children and the more-than-human world in Brazil. Drawing on Donna Haraway’s work and inspired by Karen Barad’s framing of diffraction, I take an ecofeminist, common worlds approach to my study of how children learn through becoming-with more-than-human worlds. You are invited to join in our stories and become-with us as, together, we follow provocations in different directions across time and space and speculate “and ifs.”
 
In the Eye of the Tornado: Encounters with Clay—A Relational Materialist Orientation Toward Cultivating Curriculum
No full textThis paper follows three student-educators’ journey with clay. Embedded in the contextual space of the studio, the paper considers the complexities and processes involved in cultivating curriculum and thinking with the idea of art as a language. Inspired by the relational materialist approach, Erin, Roselyn, and Colleen enter into a dialogue with clay—embodying one another, entangling with each other, intra-actively doing unto one another, and reaffirming that knowing things is embedded deeply in relational connectivity with the world around us—onto-epistemology. The authors journey together with clay through spinning, twirling, tornadoes, storms, music, chaos, and destruction