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Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2019

Cultural appropriation is often called a buzzword and dismissed as a concept for serious engageme... more Cultural appropriation is often called a buzzword and dismissed as a concept for serious engagement. Political theory, in particular, has been largely silent about cultural appropriation. Such silence is strange considering that cultural appropriation is clearly linked to key concepts in political theory such as culture, recognition, and redistribution. In this paper, I utilize political theory to advance a harm-based account of cultural appropriation. I argue that there are three potential harms with cultural appropriation: (1) nonrecognition, (2) misrecognition, and (3) exploitation. Discerning whether these harms are present or absent offers a means of placing specific instances of cultural appropriation on a spectrum of harmfulness. I conclude by considering how cultural appropriation, and associated appropriative harms, may be avoided.

Bioethics, 2018

Women face extraordinary difficulty in seeking sterilization as physicians routinely deny them th... more Women face extraordinary difficulty in seeking sterilization as physicians routinely deny them the procedure. Physicians defend such denials by citing the possibility of future regret, a well‐studied phenomenon in women's sterilization literature. Regret is, however, a problematic emotion upon which to deny reproductive freedom as regret is neither satisfactorily defined and measured, nor is it centered in analogous cases regarding men's decision to undergo sterilization or the decision of women to undergo fertility treatment. Why then is regret such a concern in the voluntary sterilization of women? I argue that regret is centered in women's voluntary sterilization due to pronatalism or expectations that womanhood means motherhood. Women seeking voluntary sterilization are regarded as a deviant identity that rejects what is taken to be their essential role of motherhood and they are thus seen as vulnerable to regret.

Book Chapters by Dianne Lalonde

Handbook of Social Inclusion. Springer, Cham. , 2021

Trauma- and violence-informed research represents an approach to knowledge production that acknow... more Trauma- and violence-informed research represents an approach to knowledge production that acknowledges how research can propagate harm and that attempts to protect against further harm. Trauma- and violence-informed research recognizes that participants may be affected by violence, victimization, marginalization, exclusion, and other traumatic experiences. All aspects of the research are designed in a way that does not re-traumatize the research participants but actively promotes their healing, social inclusion, and participation in research design. This chapter includes examples of why trauma and violence are significant considerations for how research is conducted in Canada. Some of these examples are of research which has caused trauma and contributed to social exclusion, such as research performed on rather than with Indigenous peoples, many of whom are survivors of physical, sexual, emotional and state violence, and trauma. Other examples illustrate the potential for more inclusive research practices. A focus on trauma- and violence-informed research goes beyond avoiding the traumatization of participants through insensitive methodologies. It is rooted in respect for, and work with, survivors of trauma and is most often led or co-led with survivors themselves. Trauma- and violence-informed research is appropriate for any population having experienced physical, sexual, psychological, social, or other trauma, such as refugees, frontline responders or others with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), persons from LGBTQ+ communities, Indigenous peoples, racialized populations, and other populations having experienced trauma and/or social exclusion.

Briefs by Dianne Lalonde

Learning Network, 2021

This Brief shares information on non-consensual deepnudes and sexual deepfakes as gendered forms ... more This Brief shares information on non-consensual deepnudes and sexual deepfakes as gendered forms of sexual violence. It explores the impacts this violence has on survivors, and what Canadian policy can do to address it.

Issue-Based Newsletters by Dianne Lalonde

Learning Network Issue-Based Newsletter, 2023

This Issue explores sexual violence faced by women labelled with intellectual disabilities throug... more This Issue explores sexual violence faced by women labelled with intellectual disabilities through an intersectional, strengths-based approach. It centers the importance of removing structural barriers to supports, justice, and sexual freedom.

Learning Network, 2020

This Issue shares trauma-and violence-informed interview strategies for researchers working with ... more This Issue shares trauma-and violence-informed interview strategies for researchers working with adult survivors of gender-based violence (e.g. sexual violence, intimate partner violence). The Issue focuses on one-on-one interviews, either in-person or online. We hope this Issue will be useful to researchers in a broad range of roles and backgrounds including activists, evaluators, care providers, professors, students, and community members.

Book Reviews by Dianne Lalonde

Syllabi by Dianne Lalonde

This course engaged materials on political theory to offer students the theory to describe and no... more This course engaged materials on political theory to offer students the theory to describe and normatively assess what is happening around them and what they are doing about it. I co-taught this course by taking over the winter term.

This course used science fiction films, shows, podcasts, and comics to investigate political theo... more This course used science fiction films, shows, podcasts, and comics to investigate political theory in a way that is grounded in possible futures – utopia, dystopia, or something in the middle.

This course explored definitions of capitalism and democracy, how capitalism and democracy work i... more This course explored definitions of capitalism and democracy, how capitalism and democracy work in harmony and/or crisis, and possible alternative systems of governance and economy.