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Appel à articles : Special issue "Gender, Sexuality & Decolonization", Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society — LIMITE ÷ 16/03/2015
No full textDecolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society invites submissions from scholars, artists, and activists for a new special issue of the journal exploring gender, sexuality and decolonization, guest edited by Karyn Recollet (University of Toronto), in conjunction with Eric Ritskes, Editor of Decolonization. This issue invites us to consider both the centrality of gender and sexual violence to colonization, but also, relatedly, the centrality of gender and sexual justice to decolonization. To..
‘Why Do You Need to Know That?’ Slipstream Movements and Mapping ‘Otherwise’ in Tkaronto
No full textGrounded in our collective experiences as guides for First Story Toronto tours, which story 13,000+ years of ongoing Indigenous presence in Toronto, we engage a discussion of some of the challenges and incommensurabilities of guiding tours that feature Indigenous Knowledge and storytelling in an urban area. We draw upon Black geographical and Indigenous futurist research and writing in order to challenge the fetishistic and voyeuristic encounters that we occasionally experience on these tours, and instead provide a tentative engagement with the potentials of slipstream movements to foster more meaningful, respectful, and consensual relationality with places and each other
Where Learning Happens: Conversations with Queer, Métis Youth Who Engage in Hip-Hop Cultures
No full textDespite the vast academic and community scholarship on hip-hop cultures, there has been little research into the experiences of Métis youth in hip-hop, and what previous research exists has centered on the experiences of cisgender, heterosexual Métis men. This dissertation asks about the experiences of queer Métis youth participation in hip-hop cultures, and what would a pedagogy shaped by these experiences look like. The dissertation was written manuscript style, with three stand-alone articles brought together with an introduction and conclusion chapter. This research was centered within several academic landscapes in Chapter 1, including Métis identity, queer theory, and hip-hop cultures and pedagogies. I interviewed eight Métis participants, most of whom were queer, using an open-ended, conversational approach. Using Indigenous research methodologies and the voice-centered relational approach to data analysis, I entered into relationship with the stories shared by participants through a series of readings or “listenings,” discussed in depth in Chapter 2. Through these listenings, I was able to begin to hear not only the stories told both consciously and subconsciously, but also my own internal dialogue as a researcher engaging with their words. The analysis revealed two key categories of findings: the way that these Métis youth saw themselves both individually and in relation to community which I discussed in Chapter 3, and the way that these youth conceptualized learning spaces which I discussed in Chapter 4, including what facilitated or disrupted learning and how hip-hop overlapped with learning spaces. With these understandings in mind, I created guideposts I will use in developing a future Métis-focused hip-hop pedagogy. Chapter 5 offers a synopsis of this research, as well as a discussion of the contributions of this work, research challenges, and recommendations for future research. This research offers insights into the ways that queer Métis youth conceptualize their identities, how hip-hop cultures can impact educational spaces, and how the voice-centered relational method can be used in Métis research
The Black Shoals Dossier
No full textThis dossier collects four reflections on The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (2019) with responses by its author Tiffany Lethabo King. This dossier is based on an American Studies Association 2021 roundtable organized by Beenash Jafri
#callresponse : Christi Belcourt, Maria Hupfield, Ursula Johnson, Tania Willard, Laakkuluk Williamson-Bathory
No full textStitching Language: Sounding Voice in the Art Practice of Vanessa Dion Fletcher
No full textThis paper engages with the artistic practice and work of Vanessa Dion Fletcher (Potawatomi and Lenapé) from my perspective as a non-Indigenous academic and curator. Dion Fletcher and I have worked together over the past several years through discussions about her work, studio visits, and various events. In her art practice, Dion Fletcher uses porcupine quills and menstrual blood to inquire into a range of issues and concepts including Indigenous language revitalization, feminist Indigenous corporeality, Land as pedagogy, decolonization, and neurodiversity. In particular her work confronts the ways that Indigeneity, the queer and gendered body, and disability are rendered expendable. In this paper I engage with Dylan Robinson’s “sovereign sense”: a transcorporeal mode of perception that is affective, land-based, and formed through relations between human and non-humans. Dion Fletcher’s work makes palpable this sense of sovereignty through its unruly and mutating feltness. Further, her work makes visible feminist Indigenous artistic acts of resurgence alongside the frictions at the intersections of settler colonialism and disability. Following Karyn Recollet, I contend that Dion Fletcher’s work activates an Indigenous affective experience of futurity and creative intimacy that in turn imagines disability and Indigeneity as sites through which new pedagogical relations can be formed
“Angry …and Hurt and … Just Messed Up” and Still Fighting: Analyzing the Mothering Activism of Vivian Tuccaro, Mother of Amber Tuccaro
No full textThis article contributes to the growing body of research on grieving mothers who have turned to activism to publicize the loss of a loved one, to raise awareness, and to advocate for justice (Baydar and İvegen; Bejarano; Burchianti; Karaman; Savarese). In publicizing their grief, the mothers stressed that their loved ones were persons whose loss was deeply felt. Mothering scholars and advocates have demonstrated how the women effectively used their collective suffering as a basis for social change (e.g., Karaman).
This article analyzes Alberta-based mother, Vivian Tuccaro, who has advocated for justice on behalf of her daughter, Amber Tuccaro, since she disappeared over a decade ago. In this article, Vivian Tuccaro’s advocacy, supported by her son, Paul, and her community, is scrutinized for its lessons on the promotion of justice in the aftermath of a daughter’s disappearance. This article highlights the Tuccaro family’s grief as, tragically, one of many families affected by the loss of a murdered daughter. It also stresses their work to commemorate Amber’s life. As the article discusses, the Tuccaro family’s advocacy has taken many forms, including participating in news conferences and news stories, filing a complaint regarding law enforcement failings, establishing Facebook pages, testifying before national forums, and hosting memorial round dances, which is a particular focus of this paper. The memorial dances are a demonstration of decolonial grief that remaps mourning into spaces, thereby unsettling some of the dominant ordering and indifference that propels violence. As Karyn Recollet states “Indigenous round dances that produce spatial tags are symbologies of Indigenous motion. As such, they become tremendously meaningful as filling rupturous spaces with love” (“Glyphing” 136)
L’image de l’Amérindien chez Louis Hennepin: méthodologie, perception et référence
No full textSorte d’appendice à la Description de la Louisiane (1683), Les Mœurs des Sauvages appartiennent au genre de la relation de voyage. À la fois traité, journal, chronique, mémoire, commentaire, le genre hybride de la relation de voyage a longtemps été ignoré par la discipline littéraire, et même encore aujourd’hui, désavoué par certains au nom du principe — mal défini — de la littérarité. En outre, Les Mœurs des Sauvages se donnent à lire comme un traité sur les « Sauvages ». Préoccupé par son autohéroïsation, le récollet regarde l’autre en fonction des pactes d’exploration et de conversion qu’il devait accomplir. Sa perception de l’autre résulte d’une distorsion de la réalité orientée vers la construction d’une figure du missionnaire idéal, ou, à tout le moins, idéalisé. Ce biais n’empêche pas la présence d’une valeur ethnologique. Pour bien étudier les deux aspects de l’œuvre — littéraire et ethnologique —, l’auteure a recours aux approches littéraires et à une forme d’interdisciplinarité. Elle fait part, dans une première partie, de ses hésitations méthodologiques et, dans une seconde partie, s’attarde à montrer la méthode en action par l’étude de la perception de Hennepin et de la référence aux Amérindiens. Autrement dit, à partir d’un extrait choisi des Mœurs des Sauvages, une analyse littéraire et Intertextuelle montre comment, dans le texte, s’articule la figure de l’Indien avec la figure du missionnaire et comment, à l’aide des disciplines de l’histoire et de l’ethnologie, on peut passer de ce qu’il convient d’appeler la figure de l’Indien à la construction identitaire de l’Indien du XVIIe siècle en Amérique du Nord.A sort of appendix to the Description de la Louisiane (1683), Les Moeurs des Sauvages belongs to the travel account genre. At one and the same time treatise, diaiy, chronicle, report, and commentary, the hybrid travel-account genre has long been ignored by literary studies and is still, even today, repudiated by some on the principle — ill-defined — of literariness. Les Moeurs des Sauvages reads very much like a treatise on “Savages”. Concerned with his own self-glorification, the Recollet author looks at the Other on the basis of agreements for carrying out exploration and conversion. His perception of the Other results from a distortion of reality oriented to constructing an ideal or, at the very least, idealized missionary figure. Such a bias does not leave the book devoid of ethnological value. Its two aspects — literary and ethnological — are here studied in depth through literary approaches and a form of interdisciplinarity. The author of this article first states her hesitations about the methodology and then takes the time to show the method in action by studylng Hennepin’s perception and the references to Amerindians. In other words, using a chosen excerpt from Les Moeurs des Sauvages, a literary intertextual analysis shows how, in the text, the figure of the Indian and that of the missionary interrelate. It also shows, with help from the disciplines of history and ethnology, how one can go from what may be called the figure of the Indian to constructing the identity of the 17th-centuiy North American Indian
