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Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press eBooks, 2004
HE CANADIAN DISCOURSES of power that flow around race and racism infiltrate texts as diverse as a... more HE CANADIAN DISCOURSES of power that flow around race and racism infiltrate texts as diverse as a provincial referendum, the Multiculturalism Act, and prominent newspaper ads, and these discourses, both official and popular, are sources for a much wider public perception and sensibility, ones that foster attitudes intolerant of difference. Classroom study of these texts offers an opportunity to unravel the many unquestioned Canadian assumptions regarding ethnicity, visible minorities, and especially, First Nations identity and status. One of the functions of the university environment is to examine ideologies that have been previously accepted and passively consumed, enabling a rejection of these precepts and forging the possibility of radical changes in thinking. In classroom explorations of things as specific as pronouns or as expansive as national credos, one can revise and transform a Canadian ethos that has, since its inception, been founded on racist principles. Such a view of national foundations may disturb students, but it seems essential to the kind of social justice that Canada purportedly espouses that we address and reconsider this groundwork. The language of postcolonial study, while often mired in the Canadian tradition of looking elsewhere in the world for injustice, and bound by the academic tendency to distance and generalize, does offer a resource with which to describe the intricacies of racist discourses. Alongside such writers and theorists as Smaro Kam-T
HE CANADIAN DISCOURSES of power that flow around race and racism infiltrate texts as diverse as a... more HE CANADIAN DISCOURSES of power that flow around race and racism infiltrate texts as diverse as a provincial referendum, the Multiculturalism Act, and prominent newspaper ads, and these discourses, both official and popular, are sources for a much wider public perception and sensibility, ones that foster attitudes intolerant of difference. Classroom study of these texts offers an opportunity to unravel the many unquestioned Canadian assumptions regarding ethnicity, visible minorities, and especially, First Nations identity and status. One of the functions of the university environment is to examine ideologies that have been previously accepted and passively consumed, enabling a rejection of these precepts and forging the possibility of radical changes in thinking. In classroom explorations of things as specific as pronouns or as expansive as national credos, one can revise and transform a Canadian ethos that has, since its inception, been founded on racist principles. Such a view of national foundations may disturb students, but it seems essential to the kind of social justice that Canada purportedly espouses that we address and reconsider this groundwork. The language of postcolonial study, while often mired in the Canadian tradition of looking elsewhere in the world for injustice, and bound by the academic tendency to distance and generalize, does offer a resource with which to describe the intricacies of racist discourses. Alongside such writers and theorists as Smaro Kam-T
Canadian Journal of Film Studies, 2008
Dès le début de Earth, la cinéaste Deepa Mehta établit un parallèle entre une assiette fracassée,... more Dès le début de Earth, la cinéaste Deepa Mehta établit un parallèle entre une assiette fracassée, un pays morcelé et le corps endommagée de la jeune Lenny. Par un décodage idéologique de ce physique infirme, la réalité corporelle vécue de ce corps échappe au regard critique. Ôn ne remet pas en question la gestion et le positionnement du corps perclus, qui n'est qu'une métaphore de la gestion et du positionnement postcoloniaux. Le corps de Lenny est empreint de dystrophie. On la réprimande et la tourmente. Les personnages non-handicapés la bousculent. Ce qui illustre le champ social qui démarque Lenny. Pour ces personnages, comme pour le spectateur, le corps de Lenny est une surface qui évoque le « schéma » aristotélicien or le « réceptacle » platonicien, et il est ainsi hors de lui-même. Quand Judith Butler explique que le corps importe, elle note que « ce qui constitue la fixité du corps … sera repensé sous l'action du pouvoir. » Earth nous permet d'explorer l'i...
The Poetic Front, 2010
Reviewed Rob Budde "The escrache is a particular political demonstration that emerged in Argentin... more Reviewed Rob Budde "The escrache is a particular political demonstration that emerged in Argentina by the organization H.I.J.O.S. The members of H.I.J.O.S. started the escraches as a way of showing to the community the presence of unpunished criminals of the dictatorship (1976-1983). Since then, many other collectives and individuals have used it as a way of public demonstration. .. The escraches constitute an original form of collective action that builds community and intervenes in the social process of construction of ethics. Conceiving the neighborhood as a political space, the escrache interpellates the neighbors as ethical subjects." i 14. Using a comprehensive training approach to persuade police officers to transform their relationships with communities. ii
Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press eBooks, 2004
HE CANADIAN DISCOURSES of power that flow around race and racism infiltrate texts as diverse as a... more HE CANADIAN DISCOURSES of power that flow around race and racism infiltrate texts as diverse as a provincial referendum, the Multiculturalism Act, and prominent newspaper ads, and these discourses, both official and popular, are sources for a much wider public perception and sensibility, ones that foster attitudes intolerant of difference. Classroom study of these texts offers an opportunity to unravel the many unquestioned Canadian assumptions regarding ethnicity, visible minorities, and especially, First Nations identity and status. One of the functions of the university environment is to examine ideologies that have been previously accepted and passively consumed, enabling a rejection of these precepts and forging the possibility of radical changes in thinking. In classroom explorations of things as specific as pronouns or as expansive as national credos, one can revise and transform a Canadian ethos that has, since its inception, been founded on racist principles. Such a view of national foundations may disturb students, but it seems essential to the kind of social justice that Canada purportedly espouses that we address and reconsider this groundwork. The language of postcolonial study, while often mired in the Canadian tradition of looking elsewhere in the world for injustice, and bound by the academic tendency to distance and generalize, does offer a resource with which to describe the intricacies of racist discourses. Alongside such writers and theorists as Smaro Kam-T
HE CANADIAN DISCOURSES of power that flow around race and racism infiltrate texts as diverse as a... more HE CANADIAN DISCOURSES of power that flow around race and racism infiltrate texts as diverse as a provincial referendum, the Multiculturalism Act, and prominent newspaper ads, and these discourses, both official and popular, are sources for a much wider public perception and sensibility, ones that foster attitudes intolerant of difference. Classroom study of these texts offers an opportunity to unravel the many unquestioned Canadian assumptions regarding ethnicity, visible minorities, and especially, First Nations identity and status. One of the functions of the university environment is to examine ideologies that have been previously accepted and passively consumed, enabling a rejection of these precepts and forging the possibility of radical changes in thinking. In classroom explorations of things as specific as pronouns or as expansive as national credos, one can revise and transform a Canadian ethos that has, since its inception, been founded on racist principles. Such a view of national foundations may disturb students, but it seems essential to the kind of social justice that Canada purportedly espouses that we address and reconsider this groundwork. The language of postcolonial study, while often mired in the Canadian tradition of looking elsewhere in the world for injustice, and bound by the academic tendency to distance and generalize, does offer a resource with which to describe the intricacies of racist discourses. Alongside such writers and theorists as Smaro Kam-T
Canadian Journal of Film Studies, 2008
Dès le début de Earth, la cinéaste Deepa Mehta établit un parallèle entre une assiette fracassée,... more Dès le début de Earth, la cinéaste Deepa Mehta établit un parallèle entre une assiette fracassée, un pays morcelé et le corps endommagée de la jeune Lenny. Par un décodage idéologique de ce physique infirme, la réalité corporelle vécue de ce corps échappe au regard critique. Ôn ne remet pas en question la gestion et le positionnement du corps perclus, qui n'est qu'une métaphore de la gestion et du positionnement postcoloniaux. Le corps de Lenny est empreint de dystrophie. On la réprimande et la tourmente. Les personnages non-handicapés la bousculent. Ce qui illustre le champ social qui démarque Lenny. Pour ces personnages, comme pour le spectateur, le corps de Lenny est une surface qui évoque le « schéma » aristotélicien or le « réceptacle » platonicien, et il est ainsi hors de lui-même. Quand Judith Butler explique que le corps importe, elle note que « ce qui constitue la fixité du corps … sera repensé sous l'action du pouvoir. » Earth nous permet d'explorer l'i...
The Poetic Front, 2010
Reviewed Rob Budde "The escrache is a particular political demonstration that emerged in Argentin... more Reviewed Rob Budde "The escrache is a particular political demonstration that emerged in Argentina by the organization H.I.J.O.S. The members of H.I.J.O.S. started the escraches as a way of showing to the community the presence of unpunished criminals of the dictatorship (1976-1983). Since then, many other collectives and individuals have used it as a way of public demonstration. .. The escraches constitute an original form of collective action that builds community and intervenes in the social process of construction of ethics. Conceiving the neighborhood as a political space, the escrache interpellates the neighbors as ethical subjects." i 14. Using a comprehensive training approach to persuade police officers to transform their relationships with communities. ii